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Indeed. Activity pub includes favourites and boosts.
Lemmy uses favourites as an upvote. Kbin does too, but kbin also allows boots and it considers that a boost (which is like a retweet) is a more significant endorsement so sorting and reputation is based more on boosts than on upvotes.
Circa 60,000 active users, but whatever…
You are rather missing my point. Because it sorts on boosts rather than upvotes it surfaces different things in the federated ‘all’ feed.
Edit: As corrected below it’s about 10k monthly active users, but that’s still circa 10% of the whole threadiverse (kbin + Lemmy) and only Lemmy.world is larger than kbin.social
Have you tried kbin? Same content in that it’s Lemmy compatible, but slightly different sorting algorithm which (in my view) seems to result in a more rounded/balanced set of posts being promoted.
Yes there a different set of issues - it’s earlier in it’s development phase, but developing fast (collapsibling comments is being worked on, API (and therefore 3rd party apps) is imminent, many other improvements are developed and expecting to go live this month…
I think this instance would have to be aware of the post, so either
Once this instance knows about the post I think, yes, it can appear in the Microblog tab.
Sure. I don’t know anyone on firefish, but this is dansup of pixlfed on that platform:
https://kbin.social/u/@[email protected]/posts
If you want to see posts from somebody on another platform just search them, something like “@ dansup@ pixelfed.social” (without the spaces) and follow them. From then on you should be able to see their posts (note you won’t be able to see old posts, just any new ones from when you followed them onwards).
Just spread the word and I’ll be happy!
Yes I was also thinking along those lines. When you create a magazine you can choose hastags to associate with it, I briefly considered whether you could create a magazine specifically to have interesting hashtags for you - problem with that is you end up modding the magazine and anybody can see it, join it and post.
I suspect what you describe might come later, it feels like a natural progression from what we have now.
This is true, but twitter also has an opaque algorithm to choose what appears in your feed. By default Mastodon only allows you to view your feed in chronological order, so there is an argument to make that kbin allows a more twitter like experience…
I do also get there is a steeper learning curve with kbin, and it’s basically still only an alpha release (it’s clearly not going to be right for everyone).
The article specifically says you can’t search federated communities from kbin, but you can from Lemmy. This is just incorrect, both allow you to search local or local and federated.
True, but searching from a Lemmy instance will still only show you the ones which that one instance knows about. (I think?)
On Mastodon your followers stay with you if you move instances. I expect in time this will also be true here.
You miss-represent the fediverse. Users aren’t locked in. If someone buys one instance and you don’t like it, you move. You still have all the same access, all the same content. An instance is only an access point, in many ways it is like an ISP, and people jump service providers all the time.
And notably after moving instance they would still have the same access to all the same posts, comments and content.
On the export comment I agree too. Mastodon even lets you port your whole profile.
I’m actually hoping Google or Microsoft or Apple etc create a compatible activity pub based service. That would create balance and make ‘extend’ problematic for meta.
I also think we need state actors and universities to start using Mastodon (not Twitter) - again that would make it difficult for Meta to deviate from standards.
Thanks for the correction, I read the wrong number! I’ve edited accordingly.