I don’t recall saying something was “WRONG,” but as with all such things, there will be issues of nuance.

So I’ve added a tiny bit more in the OP.

Great!

I guess I just care a lot less about federation between totally different kinds of social media than you do.

Nah, mate, on the contrary-- I was talking about highly-similar cases.

In any case, have fun! :D

Wow… congratulations on representing EXACTLY the kind of weirdness and negativity I was alluding to, above. So have fun with that, mate! And I do hope others come to appreciate your particular sense of ‘you-ness.’

Good bye.

“Not sure what I’m talking about?” Really?

So, according to the “Fediverse-Observer” (and similar services AFAIK), in terms of software, sorting by user-count, it seems the top four user-bases are:

• Mastodon: 9.4mil
• MissKey: 3.2mil
• nodeBB: 2.5mil
• Lemmy: 1.2mil

https://fediverse.observer/stats

Now ask yourself how many of those (plus others) are STILL largely unconnected in terms of the FV. See my point now…?

Nevermind. But, dude-- just because I started this thread up and made some vanilla, non-controversial statements, with no intention of specifically putting anyone down here, does not mean that I have any automagic responsibility to do others’ homework for them, as in your case, evidently.

And, dude-- I’ve already offered something like 2doz personal replies here to the many, many comments and queries, upon this thread. Still, if you like, I suppose I could create a sort of an ‘extra-guide adjunct’ for people who clearly slacked on their homework, and for some reason want ME to make up for that.

Cool…?

Buddy, that’s an hilarious leap to make right there, in which I’ve talked about this stuff all over the place, already. Oh! But maybe you do require an apology? Right so, mate:

SO SORRY I FORGOT ABOUT THE ORANGEY-SPECIFIC BEE-ESS SPECIFICALLY DIRECTED TOWARDS CANADA THOUGH, BUDDY!

The relevant point being that that’s already been spewed and sprayed almost everywhere, such that I didn’t automatically remember CA’s specific beef.

I know, I know… I’m clearly a terrible person.

Oy oy, don’t forget us PIEFED USERS, too, mate…!!

Haha, gotta admit it’s a very successful format (and drug) in that way. Vastly more effective and useful than most others, IMO.

On reddit, you can post the most innocuous thing and be met with ridicule or disdain…

Yeah, I hear you on that one.

Overall, I find Reddit to be a fairly well-informed, left-leaning (which in any other 1st world country would simply be ‘average centrist’) base, but the place is indeed also chock-full of dude-bros who form kind of a vast, ‘mean-girls’ clique IMO. And they like nothing better than to punish people (or in their juvenile words “shit on”) others for not conforming and communicating in modern ‘Reddit-speak.’

So, all-in-all something of a fascinating psychological study in to how people self-guide in to becoming deliberate weirdos, haha. Anyway, yeah, sorry to hear you had to deal with all that toxicity, as a newcomer. :/

And you, matey, I ❤️ your tireless work on helping the FV grow. It is so appreciatied, over here.

The Fediverse is a big place, with many parts that still don’t communicate very well with each other.

You might be surprised…

And people think picking a server to sign up or using an unpolished UI is a hassle? It’s a small price to pay to avoid that load of crap.

Strong disagree. I find that the learning curve is far bigger, more complex, yet also more subtle getting the ‘full FV experience’ than on Reddit. And I know a little something about that, having used my ~10yr experience there to create this WIP guide. Because most features or tips there are either still not available on the FV, or usually more complicated here.

Also, I’ve had a litany of issues using the FV, very briefly alluded to here:
https://piefed.social/post/1431056#comment_8685458

But the FV is the real future IMO, so I keep on keeping on, as well as keep generating 95% of the content for my community here.

I’ve noticed all kinds of things, with a very brief sampler here:
https://piefed.social/post/1431056#comment_8685458

There’ve been any number of issues and annoying problems going back to my original instance, Lemm.ee, over 2yrs ago. Latest ones are my host losing useful functionality for roughly half the day, both today and on FRI. There’s also chronic interconnection issues between instances across the FV. For example, last time I checked, the top four FV software bases still don’t connect to the Lemmy / PieFed / etc side of things. Mastodon is just beginning to rudimentarily connect to PF, but IIRC Lemmy still doesn’t.

Have you really never experienced or read about problems such as these…? oO

Plus, we’re not being monetized and our content exploited, as with all the commercial social media platforms.

Right on!

Appreciate that a lot!

My own project is a fun hobby, labor of love, and a way to give back to the graphic novel creators, but yeah… it feels good to be thanked, here and there. 🥲

Thank you for that!

They had their day, and I enjoyed them, but one thing I love about the Fediverse experience (patterned after Reddit of course), is that one can sample and subscribe to a super amount of divergent sources, and have it all pulled together in to one stream.

Outside of specialty forums, plus the pleasure of hanging out with online chums for years at a time, I’d argue that this method is in fact more useful and generally superior.

Sorry, my telepathy couldn’t overcome your background noise.

Yup.