Annalee Newitz 🍜May 7, 2023

Based on two unscientific polls I conducted here, people's biggest fears about the future of the Fediverse are: 1) volunteer moderator burnout; 2) too much defederation causes fragmentation; 3) people are driven away by racism; and 4) Mastodon.social gets too big.

Here are the polls:
https://wandering.shop/@annaleen/110318754714238485
https://wandering.shop/@annaleen/110318806416458197

Annalee Newitz 🍜 (@[email protected])

What is your biggest worry about the future of the Fediverse? [ ] mastodon.social gets too big [ ] Tumblr federates & sells ads against Masto content [ ] Bluesky [ ] too much defederation causes fragmentation

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Show threaddr2chaseMay 7, 2023
@annaleen
I fear that 4 choices is too few for a poll. Like, will we run out of bits if we let people have 12? This is open source software, you'd think that we (while still not implementing quote-post) would get our choice of voting systems for our polls (approval, ranked choice, range, ...) and a choice limit of something like 16.
Show threadAnnalee Newitz 🍜May 7, 2023
@dr2chase sure that seems like something you should implement
Show threadllewellyMay 7, 2023
@annaleen @dr2chase
I don't know the specifics, but there is other fediverse-compatible software out there that allows polls with more than 4 options. I don't think the 4 option limit is part of the the ActivityPub protocol; it's just a mastdon-specific limit.
Show threadGreg Scallan May 7, 2023
@llewelly @annaleen @dr2chase It's Mastodon specific. I changed the limit on flipboard.social to 14 and it seems to work well. Here is an example use I did for what was everyones favourite Star Wars movie.
Show threadllewelly
@greg @annaleen @dr2chase
Thank you for the confirmation. That's rather what I expected.
May 7, 2023 at 11:42amWeb