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aftermath.site Forums Are Still Alive, Active, And A Treasure Trove Of Information - Aftermath

Internet forums are still alive and kicking and full of information. Here are the best niche communities I could find that are alive and well.

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Frontpage - a federated link aggregator based on ATProto
  • In some way, yes. But adding communities is on their road map (comment by will.frontpage.fyi)

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  • Frontpage - a federated link aggregator based on ATProto

    >Crossposted from !bluesky@lemmy.ml: https://lemmy.ml/post/21473941

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    It's on
  • There it is: !fuckablecars@lemm.ee

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    Anyone having a 115+ IQ here?
  • Let's ask that Poliverso user then...

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    Anyone having a 115+ IQ here?
  • Visited every Bonfire (and also "bonfire compatible mastodon akkoma") instance as showed on fediverse.observer and there is no new content for 30 days on any of them.

    So probably not.

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  • Anyone having a 115+ IQ here?

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    Choosing the Fediverse based on your iQ (meme)
  • And it is. But only for official app

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    Choosing the Fediverse based on your iQ (meme)
  • Together with Misskey and /kbin Mbin it should be between Mastodon and Friendica

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    Why is Mastodon struggling to survive?
  • I echo the sentiment that there aren't a lot of Asian people on Mastodon. Although it seems that vivaldi.net is mostly Japanese people.

    Asians are mainly using their national instances. Several largest Mastodon instances are Japanese (Pawoo, mstdn.jp, Fedibird), there are also pretty large Korean (planet.moe) or Chinese ones (m.cmx.im, alive.bar, wxw.moe). Outside East Asia, Asian instances tend to be small, though.

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  • Checked with your instance (feddit.nl), community's instance (sh.itjust.works), and with lemmy.world. None show a thumbnail, but all can play the video (at least on default interface).

    Indeed, for some reason, the video cannot be viewed when opened in another browser tab

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    Hubzilla and (streams) reacting to the current spam wave
  • And Pleroma/Akkoma with its MRF policies

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    Tantacrul mentions onboarding problems with average people learning to switch to the fediverse as an alternative to Facebook
  • I've just discovered, that time stamps don't work on embeds! (checked on Photon, Tesseract and PieFed)

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    Fediverse enshittification
  • Why not both?

    We have topics here, voting is private, image communities can be tiled, there are some differences in rep counting, etc.

    All differences

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    Fediverse enshittification
  • Not until they are eclipsed by proprietary ActivityPub apps. Threads and Flipboard already exist.

    However, there is no AP but proprietary rival to e.g. Lemmy/Mbin/PieFed (edit: there will be?) or PeerTube.

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  • My magazi... community logo proposal

    Credit: some not searchable account on Mastodon/Akkoma/*key/sth lol

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    How do we get "normies" to adopt the Fediverse?
  • Isn't it like https://kbin.world was back then? (when /kbin was still a thing?)

    When you entered that page, it determined your location from IP address and redirected you to a magazine for your country, as shown on kbin.social.

    Well, this could be repeated now, but for lemmy instances. We already have umpteen of regional/local ones, and they are on every continent of the world.

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    How do we get "normies" to adopt the Fediverse?
  • Just having to explain to people that “lemmy.com” isn’t a thing(...)

    https://lemmy.com is actually a thing... ;)

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    What made everyone move to Bluesky or Threads instead of Mastodon?
  • The largest Brazilian Mastodon instance, Ursalzona proudly displays hammer and sickle in its favicon and a logo of its admin account.

    its community was probably tied up in discussions who to deferderate from next

    Seeing Ursalzona admin's pinned thread - you nailed it.

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    Are there any other services that use the AtProtocol other than Bluesky?
  • I did not check Bluecast, but Bluemotion videos appear on Bluesky as links to page of that video on Bluemotion

    And it looks that Bluemotion will not attempt to compete with You/PeerTube: the creator plans to end the service as Bluesky started to support video posting

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  • Both kbin.social and lemmy.ml are out of order as for now. (At least there are other ones)

    Also, this is my first post on Piefed, hi!

    Edit: lemmy.ml now works again :)

    Edit 2: Now both instances are working :)

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