Choose Your Fighter: Microblogging Edition

submitted 2024-11-19T03:23:12Z by Fediverse_Champion

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ComradeMiao

Kind of non-sense comparing different categories. I wish Mastodon had ways for me to be discovered, I’m in the dark here

Fediverse_Champion [OP]

Thanks for the feedback on categories.

As for discoverability, posting frequently to your local community can help you reach a wider audience. Additionally, using relevant hashtags can significantly boost your content's visibility, as many people use them to find new content.

ComradeMiao

Thanks for the tips! ;) sorry my use of non-sense was rude

mannycalavera

I’m in the dark here

That's a feature in Mastodon not a bug 🙃 /s.

Parculis Marcilus

If Ur being active enough and use the relevant hashtag, people would notice u eventually.

cabbage

As a general rule, try to also include a description of who you are on your profile. If you're active people will check in, if you give some sort of description there they are more likely to actually follow you.

Usually when someone follows me I'll check out their profile, if they look interesting I'll follow them back. If their profile is empty I usually won't.

xigoi

I’m sorry, the platform that allows you to use a custom domain as your identity has “no account portability”, as opposed to the one where you have to manually copy over almost everything?

davidgro

Yes because as I understand it the custom domain is basically just a pointer. Everything still goes through the bsky servers and you can be deplatformed there at the whim of an admin/mod (On Mastodon if you don't run your own instance that can still happen, but you can instance hop. If you run your own then other instances can block your instance but it's not the whole network all at once)

cabbage , edited

I was surprised to learn how little the domain as user name feature actually means, after setting it up with my bridged account.

The real user names on Bluesky are called DIDs. Different URLs can point to a DID, making your profile discoverable through this URL. By default it'll be username.bsky.app (or username.instance.bsky.brid.gy), but as long as the URL redirects to the DID it could really be anything.

Several such redirects could be active, but you choose one to be the "official" one that shows up on your profile. People don't follow your domain though - when they interact with you, they interact with the account associated with the underlying DID.

It's basically just smoke and mirrors for what is still a very centralized service.

It is still, of course, more decentralized than Twitter, as one can post there through the bridge without having an account. So that's neat. But the whole domain thing is deceiving as hell.

Jonathan

I had the same thoughts about using a domain as username and it is basically smoke and mirrors. I did not know however that you can use a domain for a bridged account. Are you saying that my ActivityPub account that is bridged to Bluesky can have a username that is a domain that I own?

mat :mastodon:

@gashead76 yes you can, follow the tutorial : https://fed.brid.gy/docs#user-page

@cabbage

OpenStars

Why did this put Threads first? It's not chronologically? And it's not user counts? This seems free advertising for a service that hardly compares even with the likes of Xhitter - which isn't even one of the options?

As the recent USA election shows, nothing is billionaire-"proof". They could e.g. put huge tariffs on purchasing server machines, or on non-mobile-device internet access, or use of any IP address that is not registered with a central authority and verified(TM) to run only M$-"approved" software.

Also I thought there is no (real) account migration on Mastodon either (at least, people have definitely reported feeling "stuck" in that while they can move, will any of their followers be able to successfully follow them after they do?). Nor can celebrities prevent people from impersonating them on new instances - which according to them is why they haven't joined it (last I heard).

Sorry, I am probably vastly overthinking this, and the graphical style is cute. I think I'm just overreacting to the idea that Mastodon seems to be having an identity crisis where it both wants to be something entirely different than Xhitter, while also competing with / replacing it at the same time, yet refusing to do the things that would make that happen (like make changes to be more welcoming to celebrities). If we want to remain a niche, like a federated service for the common person, then just do that?