Fediverse network statistics
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Introducing the simpler fediverse onboarding wizard
(Thanks for your feedback, keep it coming and spread the word ❤️)
Fediverse Report #116 - This week's #fediverse news:
- @fediforum will be June 5-7 with a new advisory board
- updates from @bonfire on their upcoming platform
- A new fediverse onboarding tool by @fedidb
- Fediverse music sharing platform Bandwagon talks about their plans for financial sustainability
What does the fediverse think of the new https://fedidb.com ?
While I do have big plans for FediDB, I have to focus on Pixelfed/Loops for the time being. That being said, we could use more hands on FediDB!
We just deployed a fix for missing servers due to a bug in our Nodeinfo crawler!
We're also working on a new self-submission form so you can easily add your server.
We have identified a bug in our Nodeinfo crawler that caused servers running certain software to be incorrectly marked as "unavailable".
We are working on a fix, and will let you know once it's deployed.
I'm just getting started with FediDB Onboarding!
Now:
https://fedidb.com/welcome
Soon:
- Find accounts to follow based on interests
- Suggested Apps/Clients
- Starter Kits
- Fediverse Library (tips & tricks for software)
- Internationalization
Removing barriers to entry so we can better compete with more established players, while also building several platforms is the game.
You already know my name.
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Introducing the newly redesigned Fediverse Onboarding feature 🥳
Now this is something we can share and use to help people find their way in this federated community ✨
Feedback + boosts greatly appreciated, I spent a lot of time on this, for the benefit of everyone ❤️
The fediverse just got way easier to join:
@dansup that's understandable but please consider removing the label official server.
Ranking it by total or monthly active users is fine but labeling something "official" makes all other servers inherently unofficial/bootleg/subpar.
@dansup @aspensmonster Something to consider: I solved a similar question of how to balance "quality" vs improved discoverability for more obscure entries (in a different domain) by doing:
- "featured + ~5% random shuffle/mix chance per entry"
This way there is plenty at the top of what many people may be looking for. Along with giving more obscure entries a better chance at visibility that may just pay off if the right person sees it.
@fasnix @dansup @aspensmonster
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=bell+curve&t=fpas&ia=web
in other words, why not promote servers that are mid-sized which have a higher chance that they are handling moderation successfully then servers with highest number of accounts where moderation is possibly overwhelmed by sheer number of users.
Suggestion 1: "Asia" is too broad of a category. Might want to break it up.
Suggestion 2: Maybe add one more filter for the server's default/recommended language?
@kopio @dansup
Yes, language is an important criterion, even more so than size of instance.
Other suggestions:
1. Maybe add a comment that it's not so important which instance you choose, since you can easily switch later.
2. Some people have received harassment when they create an account, because their instance federates with instances full of harassers. I know people are working on a long-term solution, but at present maybe the best thing would be to exclude some instances.
@dansup Unfortunately, there is no possibility to sort instances based on the number of active users, a criterion that was well present in the old fedidb.org interface. In fact, this criterion is much more important than the one related to the total number of users. In fact, there are very old instances with a mortality rate higher than 90% that are very numerous, but in reality are not very active.
PS: why are my poliverso.org instance and Ruud's friendica.world friendica.world instance still missing? 😭
@ThePfromtheO Thanks for the good news. I hope friendica.world will come back soon too, it is currently the most active Friendica instance
@ThePfromtheO I couldn't find them because they weren't there 😅
It's already happened other times that they disappeared from fedidb.org
It's probably because of the robosts.txt file and some policies that we had to take to block the damned Meta bots
@dansup Great, thanks! ♥️
PS: If you think we need to fix some configuration issues, let us know what we need to do to fix it
@dansup I dont think this works as is: step 2 is "choose platform". The naive user has _no idea_ on platforms. How are they supposed to choose here?
I would suggest that as a _last_ step, with preselecting all as the default
IMHO :)
(why would anyone be selecting by technology anyway?!?!)
(and, definitely, if you get only one choice in step 2 it should be skipped completely. I picked 'photography" when experimenting, and got only pixelfed and assumed it meant the main pixedfed instance, not the technology...)
but love the concept!!!!! :)
@dansup There's no native support for this via ActivityPub as far as I'm aware, but do you know what'd be REALLY cool for people interested in joining?
Subject matter interests.
Like a list of tags like "Politics" or "Cats" or "Furry" or "Tabletop Gaming" or "Crafting" etc., and then you could pick tags to include or exclude ("show me results that have Cats and Crafting but no Tabletop Gaming") and generate recommendations based on that.
Then prompt folks to pick 10 tags to include/exclude.
@dansup Like I said there's no native support for server tags, like a Mastodon instance can't specify a set of tags to describe the interests this instance is serving, that are then communicated in any formal way across the network.
I think it'd be neat though.
@dansup I like it. I would suggest to change the word "servers" to "communities" just because some people (non-technical) start to panic when they hear "technical" words.
Great job!
@readbeanicecream Server instead seems to me the best compromise: "server" is more usable and understandable than "instance". Be careful not to underestimate the fact that the term communities already exists in the Fediverse: in fact, the term "communities" is happily used by all Lemmy and Piefed users, to indicate in their platform the "Activitypub Groups", exactly like the Mbin "magazines", the BBCode "categories" and the Friendica "groups". Now since Lemmy represents one of the most used software in the Fediverse, it would not be wise to call the instances with the name of communities, but would instead create a bit of confusion
@dansup the most important thing a wise newbe should consider when picking is: who runs the instance? What kind of philosophies guide their mod decisions? What is the hosting setup (for reliability, regeonality and jurisdiction)? Do they block federation to anyone?
would be cool if this enabled insight to that stuff.
@dansup It should definitely have a little addition to the "Choose your platform" page that compares to existing sites.
Normal users don't know what the heck the difference is between Mastodon or Pixelfed, nor do they always realize that "photo sharing" is what you'd describe something like Instagram as.
I believe there should be some kind of comparison. (e.g. Mastodon - description - Similar to: Twitter/X, Bluesky)
Yeah we need a lot more knuckle dragging tool users on here.
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