You’re doing your part :)

I may have used Facebook as a bit of a provocative example here… But even on Facebook, there are certain groups that could enjoy the fediverse.

The fediverse should be for everyone.

Bluesky is not truly decentralized, in the same way that Mastodon is. Bluesky is effectively centralized and is still controlled by an american corporation and could in principle be bought in the same way that Twitter was. Lastly, Bluesky made their own protocol instead of using the already-standard ActivityPub protocol. That’s why a lot of people are skeptical and recommend Mastodon instead.

I still active on Reddit, Twitter, YouTube and sometimes LinkedIn for work (never used Facebook and Instagram) and I like Lemmy and Mastodon alot but I see no reason to restrict myself to only use Fediverse.

I understand that - hopefully the fediverse can provide a viable alternative for all of those platforms in the future. Right now I don’t think anything like LinkedIn exists on the fediverse, for instance.

why do you guys call Twitter, Xitter?

I think the idea of Xitter is to pronounce is as “shitter”, because Twitter became (more) shit with Elon Musk’s rebranding as X.

Glad someone guided you back!

100% fair! Not everyone can muster the will to wander into that hellhole. Some brave few might try :)

Right. I guess I just don’t understand the use case since I’m used to comment trees (like here on Lemmy) and you’re never confused about what someone is replying to since the comment being replied to is always just right above.

Is it just that it links back to the original or what? I mean how is it different from just quoting the post like this:

It’s like a repost, but it lets you add your own post to it and shows the original post as a quote bubble.

And then saying something about it?

Can someone please tell me what a quote post is? Maybe I’m blind but I don’t see an explanation for what it actually is anywhere.

The political leaning is definitely unfortunate. The fediverse should be for everyone, not just a certain political section.

I would think and hope so.

they can harass you by continually sending you replies for WEEKS and WEEKS at a time (this actually happened to me twice, once with hexbear.net and another time with lemmygrad.ml).

Honestly you really shouldn’t be on an instance that federate with those places to start with.

You may be interested to read some of the ways that PieFed is advancing democratization of moderation.

Personally I’m not a fan of the way PieFed uses upvotes and downvotes to basically do statistics on users in order to profile “bad actors”. That feels like karma from Reddit all over again.

There can be many legitimate reasons why a user might downvote a lot, and a user being downvoted a lot is not necessarily problematic. They may just not be following the “hive mind”, and honestly we could use more of those users.

You too? I’ve had more users sign up this month than for many past months!

When a fediverse app wins, the whole fediverse wins. A rising tide lifts all ships or however it goes.

The cool thing is that it’s not like versus, it’s like co-op!

Well, in theory sure. But you always lose people during migrations, it’s inevitable. And it’s cumbersome for users. It’s not a nice experience. The fediverse has enough bad UX as it is, I’d prefer if we didn’t pile on more.

If the fediverse actually held true to the promise of easy migrations, then maybe it wouldn’t be a big deal. But unfortunately it’s still not really that easy.

but they haven’t released anything yet

And with their current pace, it seems likely they never will. There’s been no major development on it for months as far as I can see.

Unfortunately migrating from one fediverse application to another on the same domain is actually basically impossible, due to the way ActivityPub works. It’s very unfortunate.

I’m not a native speaker so I don’t hear the fart association so much. But isn’t tooting also just what a trumpet or elephant does? In that way it makes sense. But I do think the terminology is a bit silly. Why not just “post” instead of toot? Why not just “repost” or “share” instead of “boost”? It feels a bit too much like corporate social media where every feature needs a “wacky and fun” name.

Yep exactly, it also leads to Mastodon instances only seeing local likes for remote posts. You’ll never see remote likes on remote posts as they wouldn’t be sent to your instance. I honestly don’t understand how this hasn’t been a bigger problem for Mastodon, but I guess Mastodon is more about boosts and chronological timelines and less about sorting stuff based on likes.