Hey all! recent reddit/twitter transplant and I’m trying to figure out how to get the most out of the fediverse and I really don’t know? The lack of centralization is amazing, but it’s also a bit overwhelming to try to figure out where people congregate and where to talk to people, especially when lemmy/kbin are so small relative to reddit. For those of you that have been here longer than a few days, how do you tend to engage with the fediverse? Any advice/places to hang out/content to recommend? Thanks!

  • KNova@links.dartboard.socialEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I think my advice is the same as it was for new Mastodon transplants a few months ago: follow a lot, prune a lot.

    Communities will come and go. Don’t get discouraged your first week trying to figure everything out. I’d follow a bunch of communities and just prune them out later if your home timeline is getting out of hand.

  • BobQuasit@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I’m still trying to figure out the whole Fediverse thing. I kind of get the impression that at this point, the expectation is that one ring will rule them all community will end up becoming the most popular if there are many communities that cover the same topic. I hope that works. Because until it does, there will be a bunch of tiny little communities with small groups of members who are isolated from each other.

    • MyNameIsFred@beehaw.orgEnglish
      8·
      1 year ago

      My hope is they add multi communities of some sort. Where you can

      A. Group like communities together and browse them by topic, similar to multireddits

      And/or

      B. Certain communities can join forces and automatically cross-post with each other to reduce duplication and fragmentation while still splitting load

      How technically feasible the latter is, I don’t know. But it would be cool. I’m still prettt new to this type of setup.

      • halfflat@beehaw.orgEnglish
        5·
        1 year ago

        Unfortunately I think it’d be complicated as far as moderation goes, because posts would have to be moderated across instances by different mods.

  • watchdog@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    It would be nice to automatically generate a sidebar of other instances that cover the same topic in the magazine/subreddit of your home instance that you’re currently browsing, because right now if I want to follow “gaming” as a general topic outside the kbin.social magazine, I have to search for it manually on those other instances or find someone from my home instance who posted a comment with the address to that topic in the external instance.

    I’m sure each site has its own priorities right now, but a more streamlined search method for topics/interests would be awesome.

    Also, dog

  • bird@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I spun up an instance of Calckey to see how well it plays and pulls in content from Beehaw. It feels kind of hit or miss. I wish there was a tool that federated really nicely with multiple platforms.

    I’d love something that would allow easy browsing of lemmy content and a nice interface for just sharing photos and text. Calckey seems almost there but lemmy content just seems to randomly trickle in the main feed and it’s not very organized. The project is a small team so it’s understandable.

    • Pixel@beehaw.orgOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Calckey looks like it has a really mature ui, which is something that other fediverse stuff seems to struggle with. How inter-operable is it with stuff like mastodon? I understand that’s the whole point of the fediverse but I’m curious how well calckey works as like a one-stop shop, as it were. Or if not, what’s it primarily useful for?

      • bird@beehaw.orgEnglish
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        1 year ago

        It’s great for something like mastodon posts since it’s a similar post style. But for deep threaded content like Lemmy, it could use some work.

        It’s useful for posting multimedia posts and text posts. You can also create lemmy posts and respond them when they pop up in the feed. But I haven’t been able to “search” for the URL of a specific lemmy thread sadly, just a community.

        The features it has basically let you create like a mini site and you can customize the UI as needed for your instance.