Sometimes, people on Facebook don't know the Fediverse exists.

[gelbphoenix@social.gelbphoenix.de]

@MissWarcraft You aren't really locked into a server. (To be clear: Yes, you can't migrate your posts *right now* – it's being worked on – but you don't loose your network when switching servers as you can migrate you followers and followings.)

[ltning@pleroma.anduin.net]

@beemoh @gunchleoc @lucien @hpod16 May I suggest looking at #Hubzilla too? It seems to be getting at least as much attention, and even a few shillings of EU money(!). It is, as I understand, a fork of an early version of Friendica. It is a very versatile platform.

[izzy@social.shadowkat.net]

@hpod16 I don't remember whether it was facebook, but once upon a time mentioning other networks on one of the big social websites would result in punishment

[gelbphoenix@social.gelbphoenix.de]

@mycotropic You could look at https://github.com/nathanlesage/academics-on-mastodon

Sadly on GitHub.

[pini@mamot.fr]

@hpod16 @EUCommission How about updating the UE Commission web site to include a link to Mastodon then?
I know a link to Mastodon is present on the Social Media Channels page, but it would fit way better on the front page.

[jrp@hub.kliklak.net]

@ltning Works well here, and i can host it myself on a shared host just using git. No bloody extras involved, it's plain php with a database. Mastodon at least can't do that.

[jupiter_rowland@hub.netzgemeinde.eu]

@GunChleoc @GunChleoc @ltning @Hannah Grace @beemoh @Lucien Maybe it's also worth taking a look at (streams) and Forte, both created and still maintained by the same guy who invented Friendica and Hubzilla.

In terms of privacy, security and self-moderation, they're at least on par with Hubzilla, and they're both nomadic like Hubzilla. UX-wise, they're more streamlined, especially permissions settings, and more geared towards today's Fediverse. Their learning curve is somewhere between Friendica and Hubzilla, but mostly because they default towards privacy rather than everything being public.

However, (streams) has only got a very very few public, open-registration servers and not a single working one in Europe at all anymore. It can't be crawled either, so FediDB, Fediverse Observer and FediIndex don't list its servers. And Forte doesn't have any public, open-registration servers whatsoever currently.

Maybe it's also important to know that their code is hosted by Codeberg in Berlin, but the developer is in Australia.

#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Facebook #FacebookAlternative #FacebookAlternatives #FacebookReplacement #Friendica #Hubzilla #Streams #(streams) #Forte

[stooovie@mas.to]

@gelbphoenix @hpod16 I didn't know that, thanks

[mina@berlin.social]

@raptor85

I shall remember¹ the phrase "people often mistake familiarity for ease".

I have explained it (or tried to) to so many people in many word, and this summarises it neatly.

Cheers!

¹i.e. "shamelessly steal"

@project1enigma @benny @lucien @hpod16

[arteliadragon@woof.tech]

@hpod16
yeah does it matter?...the EU is also over censorious AF

[dotmavriq@social.dotmavriq.life]

@hpod16
@JTensetti has been working on Nolta which is kind of like the Fediverse LinkedIn and dare I say it looks good so far!

[maikueper@mastodon.social]

@hpod16 unexpectedly cool!

[meaningfulbits@mastodon.social]

@hpod16 can someone tag any government official accounts? I'd like to get news from the source.

[nitrml@tyrol.social]

@MissWarcraft self-reported numbers, they choose what they define as "active users". Also, those users are not equally distributed across the world. For example, in Austria the Twitter usage even in its heyday was tiny. This statistic I attached is from 2023, you can see pretty well how irrelevant Twitter/X always was.

[project1enigma@chaos.social]

@benny @lucien @hpod16

The mastodon web interface is laggy on mobile for me, but really good on desktop. But then there are apps like Tusky that fill the gap very well for mobile for me.

[martinaneumayer@mastodon.social]

@lucien The fact that Mastodon/Fediverse differs from fb in terms of interface is a big advantage. Fb's UX was made only for one purpose - to make people even more and more addictive from meta products and their algorithms. Mastodon UX is designed pro-user, it is also very friendly in its simplicity. Moreover people can choose from plenty of different apps, ui's, themes, styles etc. And that's the beauty of Fediverse. They have a freedom of choice.

@hpod16

[ity@estradiol.city]

@hpod16 I can't tell what to think

Is this where all of those that think the EU is any different from the US are coming from

[elduvelle@neuromatch.social]

@alice @lucien @hpod16 ooh.. We should do that too!

[the_turtle@mastodon.sdf.org]

@hpod16 I imagine some genius is sure that The Solution is to federate all of Facebook to fediverse.

Let's find that person and make sure they can never reproduce. It'd be worse than when AOL turned loose all their mouthbreathers on Usenet decades ago.

[xodus_online@mastodon.social]

@pini @hpod16 @EUCommission it makes no sense to me why X icons are plastered all over EU websites and hardly any Mastodon icons. Glad there is a reply to a post like this the odd time, but it would be hugely more impactful if all EU institutions replaced all X icons on all official websites with Mastodon icons. An icon on a website is marketing for a platform. Why don't you #SwitchTheIcons ?