The Beauty and Challenges of the Fediverse
The beauty of the Fediverse is that all platforms within it manage to communicate with each other. However, this creates expectations that are easily understood by tech-savvy people, but less so for less experienced users.
My Experience with Akkoma
I installed an instance based on #Akkoma a while ago. It works very well (still active) but Mastodon users see a (fake) link related to the first hashtag that is inserted. I asked in the forum, and it was (rightly) pointed out that the problem is how Mastodon interprets posts.
Diving into Pixelfed
I installed the excellent #Pixelfed for a new project, namely PhotoLovers.net. One thing I immediately noticed is that the paradigms are quite different from those of Mastodon. My first question was: "Why don't I receive the number of notifications?" The answer, in an old post by its creator, is that it's a well-considered choice, to break away from the old criteria of "popularity" and like-hunting of Instagram. It makes sense, definitely. However, at the same time, I'm not able to know the number of followers/followed of users on Mastodon instances. In addition, it says that users from remote servers were created on the date of first acquaintance of that user by the instance in use. This is perfectly ok, but can confuse users coming from a different Fediverse platform.
We must therefore focus on the fact that all tools in the Fediverse are interconnected, but in different ways.
To quote an old but always relevant phrase, "the software of the Fediverse are tools separated by a common language."
#OpenSource #TechCommunity #SocialMedia #Mastodon #Akkoma #Pixelfed #Pleroma #Lemmy #kbin #gotosocial #Fediverse
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