@atomicpoet It's an intruiging concetp. I haven't used BlueSky, are they using their own ML models to categorize content into those categories? Or, crowd-sourcing the labeling?

@atomicpoet Sometimes violent content can be evidence of harms, also. I have posted violent content from sources.

@atomicpoet jesus thats insane. the "violence" is also one step away from "murder: show, hide"

You might be wondering, "How did I wind up finding Orrin Hatch's albums?"

I have a hobby where I try to find music that hasn't been heard by anyone.

Today, this album landed on my lap.

https://music.apple.com/us/album/the-locket/305043518

@atomicpoet I've heard the name before, I used to be LDS, I do not however like neal diamond. lol. the voice just grates on my nervs. It has this growelly gravel quality I do not care much for. Oh well. It works.

@atomicpoet What a Renaissance Man.

@atomicpoet

«Sorry, I'm just the janitor.»

@atomicpoet Clearly it's the Fediverse's fault for continuing to spread more hate speech from these very hateful instances /s

@atomicpoet
I guess it’s “John(at)Mastodon.com”.

@atomicpoet Isn't this the exact same thing people were saying about Twitter in the early days?

@atomicpoet

Journalists simping for Elon Musk.

Sad.

@atomicpoet @fediversenews This is apparently a common pattern with the press: they keep confusing growth and rate of growth.

What I haven’t seen reported by the Press even once is that, last month, the Fediverse reached 1 billion monthly messages sent.

Which is odd because that’s a more significant metric than sign-ups and MAUs.

For one thing, it indicates that people are more active on Mastodon than they were in November when MAUs hit their peak.

But Press ignore that!

@atomicpoet @fediversenews if the only metric they have for growth is percentual, then 1 million added after 10 million is less growth than 1 million added after 8 million… and that let's you say the grown has slowed down 🤦🏻‍♂️

@atomicpoet Yaay! :ablobcatrave:
#TwitterMigration

@atomicpoet PARTY!!! #FridayNight #mastodon #celebration

@atomicpoet let's see what happens If Elon continues with his tactics. For eg this 15 April bs 💀💀

@atomicpoet @fediversenews Mastodon is on the right path. Otherwise, companies like Yahoo, the Guardian, PCMagazine wouldn’t feel threatened by Mastodon’s popularity. Despite what you read, Mastodon by years end will gain more users than Twitter. Twitter has lost millions of users since Musk took over the company. Twitter has become Elon Musk’s personal platform to express his Republican, right wing political views. He controls the narrative.

@atomicpoet @fediversenews I guess for #TechIlliterate shitheads at #Yahoo everything that doesn't run on a single monolithic server inhouse is considered "distributed" even if it's the worst SaaS and comms tool ever released to the world.

@atomicpoet It's just bad reporting. A quick read of Discord's WP page would have cleared up the confusion for them. (Well, maybe.) But they're half right. Individual Discord 'servers' ("guilds" in the backend lingo) are a lot like subreddits, in that they're part of the whole system, but (mostly) run by non-company users. But any similarity to Mastodon stops there. This reporter clearly didn't get it. Discord likely borrowed this usage from WoW, which works similarly.

@atomicpoet :bd94: ❤️

@atomicpoet
And I noticed this huge expansion happened right after the WordPress plugin was released.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/activitypub/

@atomicpoet

Just saw a correction to that number elsewhere.

Not Mastodon, the entire Fediverse is heading to 11M with Mastodon 7.1 million of that.
https://fediverse.observer/stats

https://fediverse.observer/stats

Okay, but as cool as owning your own Bluesky handle via DNS verification is, I’m not convinced until I can use it on multiple servers that support AT protocol.

@atomicpoet Using a naked domain as an identity is cool only to those of us who own domain names. It's a pretty exclusionary feature for a social network, I'd go as far as saying a contributor to why Bluesky will NOT be popular.

The coolest thing though? That you can(*) transfer your entire presence, history included.

* if only there was a second server to transfer to.

@atomicpoet
You can't federate your own server/domain here?

@atomicpoet 👍

@atomicpoet Fediverse or bust!

@atomicpoet Yeah... I tried it and well... I won't go much further with it.

@atomicpoet I came here after ditching Facebook. No one persuaded me; I sought this out on my own, and it’s sooooooo much better here.

@atomicpoet one of my frustrations with the fediverse is that I can’t reuse my existing Mastodon account for Pixelfed for example. I know I can follow Mastodon accounts from the Pixelfed side but I don’t understand why I’m required to have a separate account for Pixelfed.
For me at least, there is a barrier every time I am presented with a “Create a new username“ workflow.

@atomicpoet I deleted Facebook in 2020 but still use Instagram. That is the hardest one to kick as my close friends and family are on there. Without IG, I really do think I’d lose touch with a chunk of them. *sigh* 😔

@atomicpoet well it is, but we are all out of quarters.

@queenslight @atomicpoet Unless you believe in reincarnation.

@atomicpoet "Por que eu? O cosmo mal se dá ao trabalho de devolver a resposta: Por que não?"

https://indieweb.social/@mariapopova/110192794146799481

@atomicpoet Holding you in my thoughts. 🙏🏻

@atomicpoet Im sorry you are hurting.

@atomicpoet
*offers hugs if you want them*

@atomicpoet @pixelfed I understand your frustration but blaming the people has never been the right way. I recommend educating them. BTW when I search for a #pixelfed app the top hit is #mastodon 🤷🏻‍♀️

@atomicpoet @pixelfed @Coolmccool I think there are a lot of people who refer to Facebook as the Internet or at least as the Web. Most people don’t get the distinction between the Web and the Internet as well.

@atomicpoet honestly it feels like a chore. Just to see what it's about I have to download a new app and click through like 3 pages - feels very not worth it. For now.

It's not easy. It should feel easy.

I have too many Apps as it is. App fatigue.

@atomicpoet In the present, I am Adam Dalliance.net

Have been since the 90s really. 🤷

The future isn't evenly distributed I suppose.

@atomicpoet
Sorry, I'm not going to model myself on this guy...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Dotcom

@atomicpoet
Not your IPv6 address?

@atomicpoet @elk THANK YOU! This looks like it may be very, very useful for me with my RSIs.

@atomicpoet @elk I've been hearing a lot about Elk lately. What sets it apart from the default Mastodon web UI and clients?

@atomicpoet @elk should be giving it a try, good job.

@atomicpoet That will cause problems later. How long before userson decide to drop the hash mark (since it's not required for search)?

@atomicpoet if you're gonna, now is the time!

@atomicpoet

How's the social environment over there? Are a lot of people posting? Or is it quiet?

@atomicpoet to be fair, I've had the same thing happen to me here a bunch of times.

@atomicpoet
Checking out Calckey, I wasn’t aware of the project.

@rabble

@atomicpoet Elasticsearch or something else?

@atomicpoet To be clear, I have to assume this feature only indexes posts that arrive at your Calckey instance, which is basically equivalent to the Federated timeline in Mastodon, and doesn't represent all of the content on the Fediverse. Correct?

For the record, I dug around and it was tough to find a clear answer to that question, but given the way ActivityPub works, I don't see how it can function any other way...?

@atomicpoet what's nomadic identity ?

@atomicpoet I put my name down for it when they asked, after Elmo took over the dead bird place. Now that I’m settled here, I’m not sure I want to start my profile all over again. AND they have not emailed back to invite me or advise me of whatever is available. Reading your breakdown, I note they have quotes-tweets, and that was the source of so much trolling and hate in the other place. Stalkers and trolls seem far less here. That’s huge.