The more people see the engagement, the more chance of them asking “what is that?” It won’t be long until the apps are better, and links to articles could be less likely to get suppressed than migration memes.

I can only speak for myself, but I only saw Mastodon as viable after I started being exposed to the content there…

  • icxcnika@kbin.social
    1·
    2 years ago

    @Cryst

    Hm. Generally, yes. I’m on kbin.social. tl;dr: Fantastic and excellent social media alternative, but as someone that’s worked years in ITSec, I have some huge concerns.

    Things I found surprising:

    • Registration was intuitive and easy.
    • There’s already a huge volume of good content readily available without having to “find it” (I had imagined it being more like ““the dark web””, i.e. you have to know what site you’re looking for
    • Voting transparency omg holy shit. I remember when Reddit introduced vote fuzzing and it was the dumbest thing. At least on kbin, who upvotes/downvotes something is publicly viewable. So rather than “let’s fuzz the votes to throw off the bots”, simply showing who voted allows you to easily find the troll downvoting everything or a flood of bots or so on. I imagine there’s probably not much tooling around this yet, but there inevitably will be.

    Things I’ve found confusing, concerning, or have questions about (feel free to point me in the direction of a good magazine or FAQ as well):

    • WTF is boost vs upvote?
    • Are usernames unique across the fediverse, or only across instances? (Is there anything preventing me from registering e.g. [email protected] , then jumping on this thread and pretending to be you, or vice versa?)
    • What happens if an instance closes up shop? Is there any way to migrate everyone’s data over to another instance?
    • What happens if I decide I hate kbin.social admins, or you decide you hate lemmy.ca admins - are either of us able to fairly seamlessly move our identities from one server to another? Or would it be “nope, create a new account and start over”?
    • On reddit, a lot of good things happen around flairing (users, posts). Does fediverse have an equivalent?
    • Sometimes as I’m browsing I find myself on a different server (I think) and the language of the GUI is entirely switched to Arabic or similar. I still haven’t figured out how to fix that or even what’s doing it.

    I still need to set up my own instance and play with that too.

    • Cryst
      1·
      2 years ago

      My understanding is that our user profiles are tied to an instance and you cannot transfer it. I saw a post saying it would be good tonhave a centralized user account you can sign into different instances with so you don’t have this issue. I think you could totally create a [email protected] and pretend to be me. I guess that means there could be multiple users with the same user names. If you end up not liking your instance or it gets shit down I think you just move on.

    • Emotional_Series7814@kbin.cafe
      1·
      2 years ago

      I registered as Emotional_Series7814 on kbin.social. Then I saw a post recommending that we don’t all register on the main site but scatter to other instances—after all, the point is to _de_centralize. So I went to kbin.cafe, attempted to register as Emotional_Series7814, and succeeded.