Thank you so much for getting it this far. People like you make Open Source going. Alone for years, mounting thousands of hours behind the screen.
Yes, this is a tough time to battle for place in messenger space. But there will be the time. Hope you’ll take care of yourself and be fresh to guide future collaborators.
Once again, thank you very, very much for your efforts 💙
Tbh, birdsite exodus is not that huge at the moment. It seems like it’s going to peak at 800k users per week. With 10% of active users, we have a whole one-two months before the count of new users will be equal to old ones.
Admins have time to react, users have opportunity to tell newbies about the culture on fair grounds, founders have a moment to adjust their development strategy for larger userbase. With 1 mil of new users per day we wouldn’t have all that.
Praise the lord Thank Musk, birdsite hasn’t shut down completely yet
The community I’m talking about amounts 10k+ users on discourse and 3,5k+ users on Reddit. I’m sure that size in this particular case isn’t the issue.
Once again, following activitypub is great in my book (for standardisation purposes) but having a federated feed with all the comments is detrimental for specialized forum imo. See the reasoning above your comment.
Specialized forum is very structured space while image boards are very free flowing. In a lot of forums you must read a lot of contextual information before writing even your first ask for help.
Single federated feed robs you from this context and people start skipping the rules or shitpost. With that in place old timers leave.
I answer support tickets at reddit and discourse regularly (for the same topic). It is day and night how much more knowledgeable and thoughtful people are at discourse. While at reddit people tend to insult each other for no reason and engage in holy wars under SUPPORT ticket.
On the other hand, promotional posts don’t work nearly as well at discourse compared to Reddit.
Tldr: people come to Reddit for curiousity filled entertainment while at discourse people come to help others and receive help.
I like everything in one place and being able to interact with everything from one account.
Yes, as I said before, single sign on (SSO) would be great at discourse as well
PS I would like discourse follow activitypub but I’m sceptical about federation
what’s good
what’s bad
I don’t see much point in bookmark to an article, kept in a browser. I keep bookmarks in firebox for search engines shortcuts and bookmarklets to automate stuff.
This destination is either trashbin or archive
if it’s an article and nothing else --> scrape it, read it, post your thoughts about it and delete it
If you need an archive of sources --> use zotero, connect sources together in a project, make final product, archive the sources
If it’s a cool service (you don’t plan to use) --> toot about it with your review and appropriate tags. Why? Services die, next time you need it, it is probably be either dead or too mainstream to keep it in bookmarks (do you keep wikipedia.org in your bookmarks?). So don’t bother keeping it orderly, just let other people try it out. (if it’s smt sensitive like porn/gore, just set up a new account specifically for that)
TLDR: bookmarks are dead, long live the toots
https://www.themoscowtimes.com
Also a lot of russian mastodonians speaking english post their reactions to locals news. They could be found by searching for significant event in the past
btw, just to let folks know – there’s a similar community from our federation friends !Videos@nrsk.no