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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@julian@fietkau.social @julian@activitypub.space @smallcircles I like Accept and Reject but @trwnh is pretty insistent on Add and Remove so I defer to them.
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@evan @julian@activitypub.space @smallcircles Mind if I butt in here with a question about management of the `replies` collection? I'm looking at this for the interaction controls FEP draft.
GoToSocial currently broadcasts an `Accept(Note)` to let followers know a reply has been accepted (see https://docs.gotosocial.org/en/latest/federation/interaction_controls/#broadcasting-accepts-for-the-benefit-of-third-servers). We'd want to add an inverse for revocation, which would be `Undo(Accept(Note))` imo.
I feel `Add` and `Remove` on the `replies` collection may be more idiomatic and, in a sense, easier. Opinions?
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Move Slowly and Build Bridges: Mastodon, the Fediverse, and the Struggle for Democratic Social Media by @rwg
ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web by @evan
Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life by @ntnsndr
Is that a good start already or is there something I am missing?
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I could use help composing an essential Fediverse (as a topic) book reading list. I'm planning on talking to people with a variety of technical backgrounds (range and expertise) so variety is good. I haven't read any of this yet but I would read it first and either (verbally) summarise points or point people to them for more info.
So far I have on my list:
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@smallcircles@social.coop I feel personally called out for this 😛
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#ActivityPub builds on top of #ActivityStreams in the sense that it adopted a number of its 'social primitives' defined in its vocabulary, and Collection being among those. These particular uses become 'protocol space', but other than that AS from the perspective of AP solution development is purely a set of social primitives, granular building blocks that one *may* use in a solution. AS is a utility library of sorts then. Or is that a wrong perception?
A 'feed' is something that lives in solution space, and I would only choose Collection to model it, if it offers a perfect fit in functionality. And aboveall.. does not assign some new app-specific use along the way.
I tooted today that I feel the biggest folly of the fedi is that everyone tries to cram their domain into the AS namespace. The AS primitives should not be Swiss army knives and have only singular well-defined meaning and purpose, yet they have become that along the way.
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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.
