How do you make friends in the #Fediverse?
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How do you make friends in the #Fediverse? I'm hoping to rely less on big tech, proprietary software for communication like #Discord, however it's incredibly difficult to convince my contacts to migrate and it just feel really lonely out here.
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How do you make friends in the #Fediverse? I'm hoping to rely less on big tech, proprietary software for communication like #Discord, however it's incredibly difficult to convince my contacts to migrate and it just feel really lonely out here.
@NovemDecimal The introductions tag tends to work for getting some initial exposure... as does AskFedi, apparently. But now that you've done both, I'd say: stick around for a while, post cool things... and, most-importantly, interact with people! Even if it's the tiniest "I like that" comment, it can make someone's day; and the old saw of "do for others what you'd like others to do for you" is as true here as elsewhere (:
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How do you make friends in the #Fediverse? I'm hoping to rely less on big tech, proprietary software for communication like #Discord, however it's incredibly difficult to convince my contacts to migrate and it just feel really lonely out here.
@NovemDecimal in my quest to try out Matrix I've been joining every room I can find to see which i vibe with. Similar to how I started on Mastodon. And it's going great! It's like starting on the internet again.
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How do you make friends in the #Fediverse? I'm hoping to rely less on big tech, proprietary software for communication like #Discord, however it's incredibly difficult to convince my contacts to migrate and it just feel really lonely out here.
@NovemDecimal hashtags yeah, but i'd recommend butting hashtags in the end, because many clients format those more nicely :)
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How do you make friends in the #Fediverse? I'm hoping to rely less on big tech, proprietary software for communication like #Discord, however it's incredibly difficult to convince my contacts to migrate and it just feel really lonely out here.
@NovemDecimal Follow hastags of topics you're interested in to get to know people of likewise interests. Follow a lot of people to see if they write about things, you're interested in - and chime in on conversations you think you might have something to say or add ← don't be shy there. Communicate so you're seen. Good luck! 🙂 -
@NovemDecimal in my quest to try out Matrix I've been joining every room I can find to see which i vibe with. Similar to how I started on Mastodon. And it's going great! It's like starting on the internet again.
I have been thinking about creating a Matrix account.
Right now, I am weighing Matrix against other options like IRC and XMPP.
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@NovemDecimal hashtags yeah, but i'd recommend butting hashtags in the end, because many clients format those more nicely :)
Interesting, I didn't know that you have to put hashtags at the end for them to get a nice looking format.
Mastodon has changed a lot since my last time I've been on the Fediverse, those formatted hashtags were not a thing back then, if my memory doesn't deceive me.
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How do you make friends in the #Fediverse? I'm hoping to rely less on big tech, proprietary software for communication like #Discord, however it's incredibly difficult to convince my contacts to migrate and it just feel really lonely out here.
@NovemDecimal I just gave up hoping my contacts would join the Fediverse and instead interact with people new to me there.
Here is how I seeded my Mastodon feed which, as a side effect, brought to my attention many posts and people to interact with:
https://journal.paoloamoroso.com/how-i-populate-my-mastodon-feed
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@NovemDecimal in my quest to try out Matrix I've been joining every room I can find to see which i vibe with. Similar to how I started on Mastodon. And it's going great! It's like starting on the internet again.
@Hika @NovemDecimal How are you finding your rooms?
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@Hika @NovemDecimal How are you finding your rooms?
@Seedymofo @NovemDecimal here you go! I made a video https://youtu.be/-ktYop6ZGJk?t=295&si=MvqN6FaoCoTQLhpu
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How do you make friends in the #Fediverse? I'm hoping to rely less on big tech, proprietary software for communication like #Discord, however it's incredibly difficult to convince my contacts to migrate and it just feel really lonely out here.
@NovemDecimal look for topics relevant to your interest, browse the federated timelines, spot posts that are interesting, follow people, contribute positively to discussions when you can
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I haven't seen anyone use Add and Remove activities to notify updates to the `outbox`. I don't think it would work; it's too recursive.
I've done it for other feeds, like `replies` or `followers`, and it works pretty well.
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I might not understand what we're talking about.
@smallcircles said that AP doesn't mention "timelines" or "feeds". We use a different term, collections. They are ordered in reverse chronological order, like what most people expect a "feed" to look like.
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@evan@cosocial.ca gosh I can't imagine assigning Add and Remove activities for a "popular" collection. It changes so often that it seems a waste of resources to try to track it.
Dynamic Collection?
Or as @smallcircles@social.coop said, even just light algorithmic ordering in a timeline makes stuffing it into a collection unwieldy.
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Except when they are called other names instead ;p
A timeline is a different thing than a collection imho. And an AS collection has some very particular functionality, which if I model a timeline in my app may not supported (e.g. reverse ordering).
Collection / 'timeline' is one of those words where sometimes they indicate an app domain, and sometimes a core protocol mechanism. Same is true with 'follow' which is sometimes a user action, sometimes indicates low-level publish/subscribe.
For core capabilities that must be part of the specs, in 'protocol space' it may be better to use terminology that is more common in messaging architectures and all the various architecture patterns that are involved. Perhaps idk we deal with a time-ordered event log or something like that.
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@smallcircles @julian @deadsuperhero we call them collections.
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Can't help but wonder about terminology use and abstractions they indicate. Nowhere in the specs is there mention of 'timeline' and neither of 'feed' (except as example use in AS).
I feel we started with powerful specs to be able to model *any* social networking use case. But where the specs had blanks gradually the impls filled these in with leaky abstractions such that fedi is now hammered into a very narrow social media microblogging domain.
If an app needs "Timeline" and "Feed" concepts, then it should model them. Given the actor-based nature of AP they might be actors, or whatever is best. These concept are about solution development, i.e. what is built on top of the protocol, and not indicative of core protocol capabilities.
There's so much confusion on "where does the protocol end vs. where does my app design start".
SDK's should offer "Addressable actors exchanging msgs with object payload", and hide all impl details for the solution developer.
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@seiz Thank you. I’ve been working on it for a long time, the skeleton of the app has been there for more than 3 years. I’ve identified some points that were specific to iOS 26 and put them into a condition. I could make it work with less than 40 modified lines.
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@stefano the bug is fixed and I can use the app. Unbelievable, what you achieved there in such short time.
