I wanna give it a try, but I’ve been looking at the servers and I haven’t found the one for me and what I’ll use the account for. Nor do I know of any account on a pixelfed server I could be interested in following…to just follow accounts on completely different federated servers it wouldn’t make any sense to me.

The average user doesn’t want to migrate here, though. The average user is either content to keep their Reddit account or thinking on migrating to another big centralised platform.

Open-source decentralised platforms like the fediverse and its projects aren’t remotedly interesting for the average user.

“The growth” of the fediverse in general or of any platform in it is not responsibility of one server. The only thing Beehaw admins are responsible for is Beehaw.

If you want Lemmy to grow create your own communities and threads, participate in other people’s communities and posts, etc.

there are more than 1000 Lemmy servers, many of whom are open to community creation (something that Beehaw never has been)

Go create content on Lemmy if you want it to grow.

BTW, “growth” is not necessarily a good thing on the fediverse. Growing too much can be the death of a server.

What if…just hear me…what if you just enjoy your time on the threadiverse and live Reddit alone?

The beauty of the fediverse is that those people exist in their own servers and you can simply join servers that defederate from theirs.

I’ve got some news about the demographics of the threadiverse

We already have sites that offer small communities; what we needed was a replacement for Reddit.

The thing is neither Lemmy not kbin were made to be Reddit replacements.

The reason Reddit/Facebook/et al are so huge is because people want to have a single community to talk with

They’re also centralised and their respective servers can tolerate much more content being shared/posted onto them than a fediverse server can. Having different communities allows for a given server not to be saturated.

Idk why there are so many general use instances when the threadiverse would be a great place for themed instances to exist. But even with thematic instances you can’t avoid similar communities existing (because multiples servers could exist for the same topic/fandom/etc.

Something that connects communities about the same topic from different servers into a “macro-community”, so everything posted in any of the communities can be read when you click one of them, without putting to much pressure into a sole server, would be cool. But I don’t think is posible with AP alone.

Because they’re two different communities/magazines hosted in two different servers from two different platforms

Federation makes it posible for you to participate in both

Yes. Defederation of bad actors has always been common and it’s expected.

Why would anyone still be on Twitter when Mastodon, Akkoma, Calckey, GoToSocial, etc exist?

Lemmy is way older. The true veterans are hiding somewhere

Could it be a problem due to the newest Lemmy software upgrade?

For what I read it’s a complete mess.

It denies access from non-en-us browsers, for example.

It wouldn’t surprise me if it messed with federation too.

But, they’re the devs. They did this mess. Why would they present a software upgrade that clearly had a lot of issues is beyond me…

• There’s Vanilla ice cream, and also “vanilla” ice cream

• Burger and sandwich places should offer cooked vegetable options to add to the burger/sandwich for people who cannot eat or simply don’t like raw vegetables

Matrix is decentralised but not part of the fediverse as it doesn’t make use of ActivityPub or any other federated protocol. It’s isolated in its own protocol.

Quoting the FediPact:

Openness for the sake of openness is meaningless. Two things that are very valued on fedi are consent and freedom of association. The whole point of the fediverse is that instances are free to choose who they talk to. We don’t have to federate with the likes of gab, for example. Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell, chasing a capitalist pipe dream

If anybody wants to share a link to kbin/Lemmy so people join, don’t send the official Lemmy or Kbin page (or the official page of any federated platform) nor the link to any given server. Share instead links to the Join the fediverse wiki, fedeverse party, etc that have lists of servers and also have posts explaining anything a person needs to know to start an account on any decentralized platform/server.

@matty

Apart from adding alt text.

• Casing of multi-word tags: Always write the first letter of each word on a hashtag containing several word uppercase. This way screen readers and TTS software can interpret and read them as separated words. Otherwise it would read them as one nonsensical word

• Avoid fancy/special fonts: Screen readers/TTS software can’t read them as letters.

• I don’t think it’s going to be a problem here, but wordle is a nightmare for Screen readers/TTS software as they can’t detect the words and only describe the squares one by one. It’s better to screenshot it and add an explanation of the results in alt text.

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• In the case of describing flags or objects that may contain stripes of different colours, you can do so by going left-to-right or right-to-left (for vertical stripes), top-to-bottom or bottom-to-top (for horizontal stripes). Mention also the width of the stripes.

Let say someone wants. to upload a image of the Canadian flag and needs to add a description. it could be this way:

“An image of the Canadian flag. It contains three vertical stripes, its colours from left-to-right are: red, white, red. The white stripe is twice as long in wide and contains a read maple leaf in its centre”

• When describing images containing text or emojis, explain the placement of the text/emojis. Add colours, differences on case, and fonts if necessary. Establish the reading order/direction of the text.

Three rules:

• Be concise: Only describe objects and details that are essential to understanding the image.

As it can be seeing in my first example, there’s no mention of the sky, the ground, the type of phone, etc. as they’re not relevant information. The main objects there a squirrel, tree and person.

• Try to give a complete description: Explain in detail the the important visual information.

• Add the context of the image when necessary: where does it come from? What relation it has to the context it was in? Often context isn’t necessary. Only add it when it’s important to understand the image you’re describing.

• Transcribe all text.

• Explain differences in font, size, style, and case.

• Explain the direction/order of the text.

The alt text it’s not visible (I particularly would prefer if it were), but I’ve had no problem reading alt text with my TTS app, so, don’t worry, it’s there.

P.S: Totally agree about the image preview