There’s also https://forgefed.org/

I think they actually just put out a fresh teaser post about it.

I feel there are lots but they’re all out of date since they’re from the last migration.

Crossposted over to reddit. Posting here worked really well last time so:

If you’re on reddit and don’t mind being a fediverse evangelist, please go hit this thread:

https://reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1i7kbvt/fed_up_with_instagram_how_to_move_your_photos_to/

On top of that, it’s apparently used in astronomy to represent clusters of stars, like a constellation.

Isn’t that kind of perfect though

TL;DR: Articles on mastodon will now automatically link to the author’s fediverse handle.

Seems like an essential feature to me. Curious to see if it’ll be in the beta.

He looks so happy

I’m also watching the open book project.

If it just had epub support it’d be perfect

This is super exciting. I think one of the things a lot of people are missing here is the potential for small wikis to augment existing fediverse communities. Reddit’s killer feature has always been the massive treasure trove of information for hobbyists and niche interests. There is huge potential in the fediverse to take advantage of that sort of natural collaborative knowledge building process.

Worth noting, they have since publicly apologized

They’re an insane troll imo

Worse. They’re a well known Mastodon admin.

I don’t think it’s fair to write off the entire medium like that. They all share a common ancestor in Twitter and I think it’s fair to say the toxicity is inherited from there.

The biggest problem with traditional forums is the fact that participation requires yet another account. This is the most significant thing that discord has going for it, nearly everybody already has a discord account. Federated forums mostly solve this issue tho

Damn it’s still wild to me that generating text is a solved problem.

mastodon, bluesky, and lemmy are just going to be footnotes in history

Only if they squander their lead. So long as they innovate in ways befitting the fediverse form, they will probably maintain their position. That said, it seems to me like modular systems like bonfire will probably leapfrog the existing platforms pretty quickly.

Absolutely wild that this is a group of minors.

This is a particularly silly opinion because Lemmy is an algorithmic social media platform. It’s just an algorithm that you happen to have access to documentation for. Almost certainly, any fediverse algorithm would have to work on the same principles as Lemmy (open and based on public interactions). Likes and upvotes are king. User similarity ranking is wildly inefficient on the fediverse due to its distributed nature and keyword systems are easily gamed (although some hybrid is possible).

This has always been the killer feature of the fediverse. Open non-exploitative content algorithms. So weird to see people against it for no reason.

Some other groups from guppe:
!histodons@a.gup.pe
!nfl@a.gup.pe
!academicchatter@a.gup.pe
!knitting@a.gup.pe
!folklore@a.gup.pe