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Is Pixelfed sawing off the branch that the Fediverse is sitting on? (ploum.net)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
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[–] 2 points 9 months ago (7 children)

It’s a terrible idea that they should all try to eventually do all the same everything.

I don't want them all to do the same thing, but I don't want to have to have a separate identity on each one and have to redundantly follow people on the multiple platforms.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    You can't follow people on Lemmy or Piefed, and everybody here seems fine with that

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    I can from a number of other Fediverse platforms. I may not be able to follow you on Lemmy like I can follow a community, but I can still find your account to see your posts and comments, and that limitation doesn't really impact me having to have per-instance accounts versus having a fediverse-wide account. I have probably a dozen fediverse accounts across multiple platforms. I want to have my fediverse identity able to access all fediverse platforms and that other people using that platform can find me as.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (2 children)

    which is one of the great advantages of the Fedi verse, because you can if you want to. Mbin lets you, Frienidca lets you, and Mastodon lets you. I don't like how Mastodon handles lemmy communities or Friendica Forums by making it look as though the group user re-toots every post and comment, but others do! We can all have what we want thanks to the magic of Free Software!

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Of course people can, but do they? In terms of monthly active users:

    Everybody can interpret those numbers differently, to me they show that people on the Threadiverse don't care about the microblogging format that much.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    Yes, people do. Thankfully we as a community aren't bound to corporate shareholders, so it doesn't matter how many people choose to use it, we don't have a need to increase users. While we don't have a fiduciary duty to be kind for similar reasons, I think it is generally a good idea to do so. In my experience when I have used words/phrase like "everybody" "nobody" or "people don't" some have told me they found it off-putting or belittling when they are in the minority so I try to avoid it but I still find it hard sometimes as that is not the way I was taught to speak in government indoctrination camp so there is a lot of de-schooling I need to do.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

    Why would you follow the same accounts on multiple platforms?
    Or do you mean one person who has accounts on multiple platforms?

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