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In case you missed it, Mastodon and the Fediverse have groups, which are really useful for discovering conversations on specific topics. They work equally well on all servers.

Find out more info on how to use them at:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/how-to-use-groups-on-the-fediverse/

If you're looking for groups to join, I curate a list at:

➡️ https://fedi.directory/tag/fediverse-groups/

If groups are too busy and overwhelming your Home timeline, you can split them off into their own timelines using Mastodon's Lists feature:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/how-to-use-the-lists-feature-on-mastodon/

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Show threadCătă 🇷🇴🇺🇦🇲🇩🇪🇺Nov 8, 2023

@feditips I have two questions:

  • Is there a way I can suggest a few groups to the list? I've come to a point where I'm following groups all across the Fediverse 😁
  • I understood your stance on Lemmy, and I share the same opinion about the Lemmy devs and their 2 servers, having 1st hand experience with one of them. However, currently, Lemmy is the second platform in the Fediverse in number of active users after Mastodon. Moreover, some (former) Reddit Subreddit admins opened their own sister communities on Lemmy or created entire servers dedicated to a specific topic. Would it be ok to recommend these as well as long as they are not on lemmy.ml or lemmygrad?
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    @petrescatraian

    If you know of a group you want to recommend, send me a message.

    "However, currently, Lemmy is the second platform in the Fediverse in number of active users after Mastodon."

    Numbers make no difference, might doesn't mean right. The Lemmy devs are allowing really awful things to be spread on their servers.

    Large numbers just mean the developers of Lemmy have even more influence and funding.

    I'd recommend instead putting that funding into alternatives such as Kbin.

    Show threadLerajeNov 8, 2023
    @feditips @[email protected] KBin is an unmoderated mess. So much so it's already been forked (MBin).

    I don't understand your reluctance to promote Lemmy - the developers being tankies (which I'm assuming is the root of your dislike) are nothing to do with how the platform is used by non-tankies. Mastodon on the other hand has plenty of toxic instances and yet you're both on and promoting its use.
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    @leraje @petrescatraian

    Kbin is in really early stages, but if it's given time and resources it could be really good.

    If you use a platform, that gives the platform's developers influence and power. That's why for example Eugen was being interviewed on CNN etc.

    " Mastodon on the other hand has plenty of toxic instances and yet you're both on and promoting its use."

    It's not about toxic instances existing, it's about toxic instances being run and promoted by Lemmy's developers.

    Show threadLerajeNov 8, 2023
    @feditips @[email protected] Ernst has done as good a job as he possibly can with KBin but his instance is a mess as he doesn't have time to Admin it. There's some very toxic communities on there. MBin seems to be taking a much more open and constructive development path.

    re: Lemmy developers - who cares? It's impossible to live in the modern world without using/owning something made by awful people. They'll still be tankie idiots even if BBC profile them. Doesn't lend them as people any legitimacy whatsoever. And in the meantime, your stance is unfairly excluding people putting in a lot of work and effort to make good instances and Communities on those instances.

    Surely thats what matters - the quality of the content, not who develops it.
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    @leraje @petrescatraian

    "They'll still be tankie idiots even if BBC profile them."

    That's not how it works. The more often someone is seen in a prominent position, the more legitimacy they receive in the eyes of the public and their followers.

    "Surely thats what matters - the quality of the content, not who develops it."

    The developers don't make the content, they make the framework that displays the content. They also promote specific instances on the platform's official site.

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    Show threadLerajeNov 8, 2023
    @feditips @[email protected]

    "That's not how it works. The more often someone is seen in a prominent position, the more legitimacy they receive in the eyes of the public and their followers."

    No one working on fediverse software is seen as prominent in any community except this one. And the fact they develop software is what they're interviewed about, not their political beliefs. Are you influenced by Eugene's political stance? Of course you're not. None of them are in any way topical or relevant to anything except what they build.

    "The developers don't make the content, they make the framework that displays the content."

    That's kind of my point. It matters not one jot who the developers of a platform are, or what they think. The users and the content are what make or break a platform.

    Fact of life: its literally impossible to exist in modern life without money or some other type of use making its way from you to someone awful.

    "They also promote specific instances on the platform's official site."

    No they don't. When you visit join-lemmy.org you can either see all instances ( And their own wasn't in the first 20 I looked at) or, you can start a sort of wizard thing where you select an instance based on topics of interest.