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A little bit of neuroscience and a little bit of computing.

Main is @[email protected]. Checking this place out to support and promote calckey but increasingly thinking I might just go all in on calckey!!
Show threadmaegulAug 29, 2023
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I’d guess that the similar pattern across instances is a subtle but important phenomenon … it suggests that mastodon.social isn’t a categorically better onboarding service just one that sucks up more of the incoming traffic.

Otherwise, a rough look at the numbers shows mastodon.social was taking ~90% of all new users. Of that continues over time it won’t be too long before it’s on its way to bring half of mastodon, presuming future user growth of course!

On which, those MAU graphs are striking. Didn’t realise they fell back down to near base level after the spike. I suppose the rate limit problem resolved itself and those users were mostly bored. Mastodon could maybe do with a more active definition of active user like lemmy’s to discount the bored lurkers … it might be a more stable metric.
maegulAug 1, 2023
@chihuamaranian @hrefna yea, hopefully along with other things, there’ll be maturation of the admin-user relationship.
maegulAug 1, 2023
Show threadHrefna (DHC)Jul 31, 2023

In short:

I do not believe it is the admins responsibility to act in loco parentis and I get _really prickly_ about people trying to "protect me from myself."

Not allowing it on public timelines is standard commons management and instances can absolutely do that if they like, but not allowing your users to follow is crossing a very, very weird line to me—and a far weirder and stronger line than with something like #meta—unless there is some cause of action that I'm not seeing.

maegulJul 29, 2023
Brian KrohneJul 29, 2023
I've been pondering the posts by @kissane and @siderea about 'not finding your people' #OnHere and am wondering if sentiments toward fediverse-wide #FullTextSearch have shifted at all. I know this has been implemented several times, and then been graciously shut down by developers who listened to community feedback.
#Mastodon #Fulltext #Search
From US - want opt-out fulltext search
37.3%
From US - DO NOT want opt-out fulltext search
13.6%
From Europe - want opt-out fulltext search
33.1%
From Europe - DO NOT want opt-out fulltext search
16.1%
Poll ended at .
Show threadmaegulJul 29, 2023
@misc It's issues like this that more or less demonstrate that actual groups/communities are generally a probably better way to go.

As a quick example, IIRC, lemmy/kbin have various communities in which Meta may come up (eg Fediverse, Technology), but also specific communities for Mastodon or particular platforms/apps/tools, including Meta/Threads. That collisions are not permitted, and the communities moderated, helps.
maegulJul 28, 2023
Show threadJesseJul 28, 2023
We need to start another fedi pact for democratic governance. And a complimentary user pact not to join another instance that is not a signatory.
Show threadmaegulJul 28, 2023
@mekkaokereke

Lemmy / kbin have "algorithms" ... simple, understandable, transparent sorting options that you get to pick from (and set as the default). From what I've gathered, many have (slightly) different preferences for their use cases, and typically use more than one in various patterns of exploration.

Some might enjoy seeing, eg, kbin.social's microblog global timeline: https://kbin.social/microblog

And lemmy.world's local feed: https://lemmy.world/

Both have typical (reddit like) options: hot, active, new, old, top etc.

Lemmy also has the useful "top within time X" options for 1hr, 6hrs, 12hrs, ... etc.

And both have the same options for the comments on a post ... which is rather useful for getting a grip on where the conversation is up to when you jumping in to a large one.
Microblog - kbin.social

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