Because that’s what’s mastodon groups are (e.g. the a.gup.pe). Mastodon doesn’t have actual native groups, so bots-as-groups is a work around.

Mastodon doesn’t fully federate with Lemmy, so while you can partially interact with Lemmy users and communities, you can’t meaningfully partake in conversations here.

Would be cool if lemmy communities could just tag themselves, so a directory like this could be automatically generated… Maybe even just hashtags in the sidebar or something.

Does this have anything to do with the fediverse? If not, perhaps post it in a local community? !mexico@lemmy.world perhaps, or !djing@lemm.ee

The mastodon is not a platform though, it’s a protocol/standard and the software to run it. Individual mastodon services/platforms will come and go. I think if they become too much of a product (and enshittify), then people will leave, because they can without much pain.

Still useful to post though, it’s a decent simple over view that can be shared elsewhere

Twitter is the first time a global social media giant has seen a major exodus (I guess the second if you count MySpace, but the reasons were pretty different). The sample size is very low… It’s easy to forget how new all of this is.

Why are you on Lemmy? Or, why do you think the decentralised model works here, but not on mastodon?

Or is it only working because there is no third party VC-backed reddit clone?

I don’t think anyone is claiming technical superiority. And certainly not financial superiority.

But maybe some kind of resilience to the forces of destruction plaguing commercial social media.

Right, thanks. Still a super useful system, IMO, though I’m sure better versions are possible.

That’s true, but it’s gotta be balanced by limiting the fallout of extreme cases on other users

It doesn’t accumulate and display anywhere though, does it?

Maybe. They might also mean you’re an idiot.

Slashdot used to have a multidimensional voting system that would allow you to up or down vote something based on whether it was funny/insightful/correct, etc (can’t remember the dimension). I wish we had something like that. Sometimes it would be useful to mark a comment as “funny, but also wrong”

There ate multiple algorithms, but I don’t think any of them account for both votes and comments… I might be wrong though.

Tangent: the "scaled* algorithm, which normalises post ranks by the popularity of the community they’re posted to, is excellent. I recommend everyone use it as their default.

Most by number of users, I’d guess.

I’m on mastodon.social, and basically never see threads posts.

I suspect the distributed moderation will help in the long run too.

Most of the core mastodon servers haven’t blocked threads…

1. Disruption: Probably ethics? I mean, I know big global businesses barely have any, but they do care about their reputation somewhat. Anyone running a botnet to destroy small/medium fediverse servers would be discovered fairly quickly, I suspect. Nothing is going to stop AI training scraping outside of regulation, I suspect.

2. Ads are enshittification. Federation is defense against it, because it prevents vendor lock-in and allows migration while maintaining your network effect. Threads already tried to join, and nearly nothing of theirs gets through. I’m on a mainstream mastodon service that doesn’t block threads, and I’ve seen a threads post only once or twice. Threads can’t display their add on my service, so there’s no incentive for them to push content.

Oh, hah. I double checked the whole post, but forgot to look in the obvious spot 😅

What services? Mastodon? Lemmy? Anything federated?

Would be kinda cool to have some more African and south+east Asian instances. I would happily donate to help get some instances hosted in poorer countries.