I’ll play devil’s advocate here – I hate Meta, but Meta apps supporting activitypub would be a huge benefit for adding users to the platform.

Like other small social platforms, the fediverse has a fundamental choice to make between quantity and quality. The quality of Reddit took a nosedive in the last 5-6 years as the platform grew. I’m not saying it was always great in “the old days”, but recently all of the big subs were just page after page of the same memes, stupid arguments (“it’s called soccer! It’s called football!”) that have been had a million times, and the same jokes.

So the question is – how much does the fediverse want to grow? The thing keeping me from deleting my Reddit account right now is some of the sports communities there, and things like a local urbanism group from my hometown.

Having Meta apps support activitypub could help establish that kind of userbase. At the same time, the influx of users could drastically reduce the quality of the platform. It’s a balance that has to be struck by the community.

The cool thing about the fediverse compared to other platforms is that the structure allows this kind of thing to be decided fairly democratically – each instance can “vote” by deciding whether to federate or not, and if we all agree we don’t want them, everyone can defederate. If we’re 50/50 they’ll federate with half of the community.

2023, year of the linux desktop?

but sorting by active results in stale

yep, the default sorting makes it looks like nothing has been posted for 3 days

had that subreddit not already moved offsite by that point? or do you mean that they only had enough momentum to carry a substantial userbase off-site because reddit dragged their feet for so long on doing anything about it? if the latter, I agree.

the biggest thing that I would use it for would be individual blogs, I just only have 3 or 4 of those that I follow.

For the others, it doesn’t help me that much to centralize them. Like with the hacker news rss feed, I can’t comment or interact from the rss reader, so I might as well use the website. With twitter, all of my twitter follows are already centralized on twitter; same with youtube.

The problem isn’t that I don’t know about RSS, it’s more that I don’t really have any content sources that use it

it is really annoying to subscribe to communities on federated servers – there should be a link that will redirect you to your home server. As of now I seem to have to copy and paste the community address into the URL because the feddit.de community search doesn’t seem to be working for me