Also integrating microblog features to threads, like following the poster and boosting posts and comments, is great imo. And I can post microblogs to communities without @ the community, which makes the posts cleaner. And can post to Bluesky too through a bridging service for microblogging.

Also forgot to mention another instance (or rather software), Misskey. That one I like for following people through RSS since it allows the technology for external accounts. But then I set a script for redirecting the Misskey posts to Mbin or Mastodon’s (hardcoded) search links. Mastodon’s also good for RSS, specifically hashtags’ in its case, but needs an ever-growing list of matched links in the redirect script.

Mbin I prefer because it integrates decently enough thread posts and microblogs while, unlike alternatived, not being visually bloated or as slow to interact.

And when it lacks some feature, it’s one of the better and more responsive ones to either emulate or redirect to an instance that supports the given feature, either by Ublock Origin filters, Violentmonkey scripts, etc.

I stick to Mbin when possible. Mastodon or crust.piefed.social for generating RSS bots. Mastodon also if I want to post heavier files in size. NeoDB if I want to post reviews. Lemmy if I want to post stuff for nicher instances and I happen to have an alt on, or if I want to crosspost posts no longer available externally but available locally.

They made it super cumbersome to even activate the integration. Almost feels like they wanted it to fail even before admins started defederating.

unixsocks moment 🫣

No caffeine, just sheer power of anger.👌

But jokes aside, not exactly anger but rather a perhaps obsessive need to get my problems solved.

!canitrundoom@feddit.org

Interesting. Using the browser for both Lemmy and Mbin and neither picked it up. But subbed!

“He’s behind me, isn’t he?”

Late Tuesday mlem

Is there such a community? O.o

My instance picked nothing and I was doing a meta joke, since there’s !blurrypicturesofcats@lemmy.world

!blurrypicturesofdogs 🤭

Healthy growth is exponential, so while an initial growth may seem like near zero, as it gains traction, it should become visible.

Also if the fediverse is indeed smaller than those it competes against (can’t audit numbers, can’t trust them), thus making the potential users interested in a given topic, still spreading word of the communities or at least their posts elsewhere, like chatrooms, may help bringing people in.

Maybe go to !forums@sh.itjust.works and ask where you can find external replacement communities if you can’t find them on the fediverse?

Also, within the fediverse, if you use Mbin, PieFed or Friendica, you can easily use hashtags to broaden the covered topics while an equivalent community doesn’t get made. Just avoid hashtag spam within a same post, please.

And lastly, any project is just as successful as the people involved are interested in building it. The fediverse is a niche within a niche, and neither Reddit grew overnight, its advantage being to be much older. And since Reddit seems hellbent both on self-sabotaging and monitoring people down to their criminal and medical records (exhaggeration but who knows for how long), it may be a good idea to be proactive about building and growing alternatives, instead of feeding Stockholm syndrome for Reddit.

It keeps getting better.

Post without context that links to a post in a platform I can’t access without login or 3rd party interfaces and whose post links to another post. Hm.

take me home…

To the place I belong!

Removing distractions helps, from my experience. In my case at least, I usually leave the phone running videos and podcasts I can consume passively, no need to focus on it, on PC I use RSS to quantify the accumulation of posts and stop when I open the posts past that (since I have a backlog there too), and consoles I leave turned off when I’m not playing them.

The rare two-headed cerberus.

Dunno how’s the code quality or how well it runs, but on the presentation of the project, either I’m very tired, or I’ve seen scam bots meander less.