Try going to the home page of instances of accounts you like (or of instances that seem interesting) and browsing their federated feed (tap globe for “live feed” then hit “all”), you can discover tons that way.
As a general mastodon instance mas.to looks good and is a nice size with a good stable history.
You can find established, more established instances on the fediverse by surfing around a bit fedidb
bluesky does not have functional federation by any reasonable measure.
Curation was made by users.
Right, users not corporations make social networks, so the community not for profit corporations should own those social networks.
Can we not all see this as the same old pattern of predatory rent seeking behavior applied to online communities just seasoned with even more jargon and condescending handwaved half explanations?
wtf kind of lame criticism of mastodon is this…there are constantly cute pictures of pets being posted on mastodon… and like anywhere else with humans these posts are very popular on mastodon.
I would say these posts are MORE popular on mastodon because without an algorithm cute animal photos are going to stick out as popular even more.
This is all nonsense anyways, Bluesky is considered “cooler” by techy types with a childlike awareness of history, politics and power because the tech is cooler when considered in the abstract.
Coincidently none of these technical details have the capacity to make bluesky a truly open and free place otherwise those investors would sue bluesky for purposefully and willfully not pursuing profit for shareholders. This won’t stop certain types from pointing at pictures in the sand and reciting idle words thrown to the wind by the people in charge for now.
Bluesky exists as a legal instrument of profit, all else about bluesky is malleable and changeable and will eventually be bulldozed or undermined in the pursuit of profit for shareholders.
edit 2 this is a real human, and I was grumpy and while it was satisfying to point fingers it just makes me into the asshole so I removed that, but my broader point still stands
Ah, headline should of read then “You Won’t Believe How Big Government Steps In And Crushes This Person’s* Freedom”
*Person refers to Adobe, see laws and regulations of the United States
Maybe I just like the Lemmy/reddit style of social media better. It makes more sense to my brain.
My favorite part about the fediverse is that you get to explore social media without feeling pressured, manipulated or like you have to do a lengthy sign up process. It encourages you to try different mediums of social media and find one that vibes with you.
I assume you are talking about mastodon here not lemmy but yes there are two main ways to discover posts from others that you don’t follow.
Your “home” feed is a feed of all users on your instance independent of whether you follow them or not.
Your “federated” timeline is a feed of all users who users on your instance follow independent of whether you follow them or not
Hopefully but that is a tough nut to crack especially if things weren’t designed to be that way originally.
Yeah that is a good point, at the very least lemmy could display a traditional thread but yeah I have no idea about discourse displaying a lemmy thread.
This is really cool, I wonder if it can have integration with the “threadiverse” such as with lemmy or kbin?
A bridge is a tool for connecting things don’t connect, it is not federation.
The relay layer/app view forces you under the control of a centralized system at a fundamental level with bluesky, the only thing meaningful about that kind of federation is hosting costs for processing and storing post data are offloaded onto the user.
…Which when you think about it is actually pretty fucking insulting to the fediverse and what is trying to be when bluesky pretends it is aiming for true federation and decentralization.