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Cake day: 2024年4月24日

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  • Well, Mastodon will show everything in the feed, no matter if it’s a video, a short blog, a long blog, a picture, a podcast, whatever. Mastodon is (primarily) microblogging in terms of output, but an everything platform with a chronological feed in terms of input.

    This is where this user seems to get confused - they expect everything on the fediverse to display every type of content, just like Mastodon strives to do. Which is, as you said, ridiculous. If PixelFed was to display audio content and Funkwhale was to display pictures, what would be the point of these services in the first place? If they want everything to be Mastodon, why don’t they just stick to Mastodon? Maybe Pixelfed users have no interest in reading their dumb blog posts?



  • I can’t imagine how stressful it must have been to have a small hobby project you’re devekoping for fun and then suddenly get the insane amount of traffic from the Reddit exodus over night without having been able to prepare for it at all. I was low key worried we killed him with stress.

    Happy that’s not the case.


  • I think engaging with people on a human level rather than giving unsolicited advice on how to use fediverse to every new face around could be a place to start. Half the time I see a new user here they seem to get flooded with technical advice that, while well-meaning, is somewhat off-putting.

    A simple “Welcome! Don’t hesitate to reach out if you have any questions about how to make the most of your time here” is plenty for most people. And if they do ask questions, go wild.

    Is there a good community in which newcommers can ask basic questions, like a fedi help desk community/no stupid questions fedi edition? I feel like that could be useful to point people to. Edit: Blaze linked !newcomers@piefed.zip in another comment.










  • Still a pretty big hurdle for most bots that just aimlessly flow through the webs trying to sign up for things. I don’t think anyone will bother tailoring their bot for europe.pub.

    Putting the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy between the question and the answer field might further confuse LLM outputs. :)