I have a lot of follows, followers on Mastodon.social.
You should know that because of its spam problem, it is getting widely defederated.
If #Friendica had an equivalent to Mastodon’s “Limit” functionality, I would have already done that. Alas it only has the nuclear option.
But if the spam problem continues, I’m not gonna have a lot of choice.
If you are on Mastodon.social, you might want to move, and sooner rather than later, because it’s going to get increasingly hard to.
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Sion [main]
in reply to Sarah Brown • • •Sarah Brown
in reply to Sion [main] • •@Sion [main] In terms of "the fediverse that isn't Mastodon", it's quite popular. Of the types of servers I federate with, it's the 4th most popular platform. Here's the top 10:
Mastodon - 8292 servers
Pleroma - 481 servers
Akkoma - 286 servers
Friendica - 273 servers
Goto Social - 212 servers
Calckey - 146 servers
Misskey - 141 servers
Hometown - 136 servers
Wordpress - 96 servers
Pixelfed - 66 servers
And then noise.
Sion [main]
in reply to Sarah Brown • • •I'd expect it to be a popular not-Mastodon, it's just the (possibly rhetorical) question of why (nearly) everyone has picked up on Mastodon instead.
Interesting that Calckey is making a showing, given it's a comparative newcomer.
Sarah Brown
in reply to Sion [main] • •@Sion [main] Mastodon got the press and because it's "like Twitter" (Friendica is "like Facebook"), it's where everyone went when Twitter imploded.
Friendica also has far fewer active developers, so has a bit of a steeper onboarding process. It is getting updated though. Uploading images was laborious as hell prior to the current (2023.03 Giant Rhubarb) release, for example. Now it's lovely: just drag and drop an image.
Sion [main]
in reply to Sarah Brown • • •Yeah, I guess the Muskification would drive people to a "very much like Twitter" rather than a "like Twitter but with more features".
(My curiosity on other fedi platforms was driven by a Facebook native asking "If Mastodon doesn't have groups, how do people talk to each other?")
Sarah Brown
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in reply to Sarah Brown • • •Susan Lewis
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in reply to Susan Lewis • •@SusanLewis So here's the thing: when (not if) I defederate from it, our connection will be severed, along with everyone else I follow there.
Which will suck, but I refuse to put up with its spam.
Sarah Brown
in reply to Susan Lewis • •@SusanLewis I think you're missing the point. Because Mastodon.social has positioned itself as the "default instance", it's attracting the spammers. They won't go to smaller instances because they will get stopped immediately.
But right now, Mastodon.social is the loud neighbour throwing parties at 4am of the Fediverse and smaller instances are increasingly coming to the realisation that its' easier just to completely cut it off.
Right now, you can still move, but one nasty side effect of de federation is that you can't port to a server that's defederated you.
If you pick the largest instance you can find, then yes, this problem may well follow you. If you go to a small instance, which is how things are supposed to work anyway, it won't.
Susan Lewis
in reply to Sarah Brown • • •Alexandra Lanes
in reply to Sarah Brown • • •What I don’t quite understand is how the problems with mastodon.social don’t appear to be there with mastodon.online even though as I understand it the two instances are effectively equivalent.
I would probably attempt to migrate to friendica but tuits and I don’t know if there’s a documented migration route.
Sarah Brown
in reply to Alexandra Lanes • •@Alexandra Lanes The mastodon "move account" process does not work onto Friendica.
You can pull your follows in easily (save CSV, load CSV), but it won't bring your followers. Best thing to do is to announce what you are doing, and then ask people to refollow you.
Alexandra Lanes
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