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Sometimes, people on Facebook don't know the Fediverse exists.
The European Commission likes to tell them. 💜 😉
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Sometimes, people on Facebook don't know the Fediverse exists.
The European Commission likes to tell them. 💜 😉
Lucien
in reply to Hannah Grace • • •Hannah Grace
in reply to Lucien • • •I know, I know...
When I first started (a week ago), I struggled with understanding the federated nature.
But I just put out a post to ask questions, and people explained things to me, and I was amazed with the awesome community out here!
Lucien
in reply to Hannah Grace • • •I agree 😁 I ended up on Reddit rabbit holes and documentation pages to learn some things. This user type will however not search and if they can't ask their friends or family for help, they give up.
Still, steps are taken to make this process more user friendly, which is great!
Hannah Grace
in reply to Lucien • • •And: usually you have to hear about a new product a number of times before you try it out. So, many baby steps, one big goal.
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Lucien
in reply to Hannah Grace • • •GunChleoc
in reply to Lucien • • •@lucien Facebook users might also be more comfortable with Friendica rather than Mastodon.
Maybe collaborate with Friendica developers to get a good beginner's guide for Facebook users going?
When working on such a guide, it's always good to have the view of somebody completely new to the software like yourself.
Sarah W
in reply to GunChleoc • • •My experience of friendica was awful. Full of dodgy accounts and some very nasty porn. Otherwise the only posts I saw were from Mastodon.
I'm hoping it's improved since.
LautreG, souvent dans la Lune
in reply to Sarah W • • •Mainly depending the server you are connected.
We have choice, many choice, and we also can move from one to another, have several accounts, choose clients too.
That is so great.
Petra van Cronenburg
in reply to Lucien • • •@lucien Mastodon is already preparing a better start for newcomers with a help structure. We also have the hashtags fedihelp and askfedi for finding people who help with any questions. And I warmly recommend @FediTips with their great guide fedi.tips - easy to understand!
#newcomers #feditips #FediTipps #Mastodon #DiDay #welcome
Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse
fedi.tipsFedi.Tips
in reply to Petra van Cronenburg • • •If anyone has any questions about using this place, I'm happy to give direct tech support to them. I'm especially trying to help new and non-technical people.
And as Petra linked above, I've got a website full of non-technical easy-to-understand help at fedi.tips
Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse
fedi.tipsDmian 🇪🇺
in reply to Hannah Grace • • •always tired
in reply to Hannah Grace • • •jz.tusk
in reply to Lucien • • •@lucien
The Fediverse has a great collection of techies creating the protocols and infrastructure. What we're missing is the folks helping regular people use it.
Hopefully folks like Hannah will start creating that layer. Not just through advocacy, but by hiring staff dedicated to helping people use it.
Hannah Grace
in reply to jz.tusk • • •I think Hannahs like Hannah Aubry (@haubles) are key to bringing the most important aspect of the Fediverse front and centre: the community vibes. 💜 🐘
Petra van Cronenburg
in reply to jz.tusk • • •@jztusk We have @FediTips and @FediFollows
@lucien @hpod16
Fedi.Tips
in reply to Petra van Cronenburg • • •"What we're missing is the folks helping regular people use it."
I have been helping regular people use this place for over five years now, and I'm not the only one doing this! 🙂
My website at fedi.tips helps new non-technical people get started and I've done a list of links to other helpful sites at fedi.tips/what-do-i-do-next-ar…
I also provide tech support directly if people have questions.
Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse
fedi.tipswil
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •casey is remote
in reply to Lucien • • •Hannah Grace
in reply to casey is remote • • •for me, it took some time to get used to the federated nature.
For example, if I am on my EUPolicy server and I open a link to a mastodon.social profile, I won't be logged into my EUPolicy account and can't directly interact. I have to find them in my search bar. It's not a huge thing, but it lead to some hang-ups.
I was shameless enough to admit I was struggling with this, and people in the comments just walked me through the process. Good community here.
Lucien
in reply to casey is remote • • •@realcaseyrollins this are the top ones that I observed:
- Server selection onboarding. This is number one, you'll find plenty of posts online with confused users. Though Mastodon works on improving it soon it seems.
- Limited search and discovery (bottlenecked by the server)
- Broken uploads because of dead CDNs
- Confusing 'DM' feature
These all make sense to me and are ok, but casual Joe will struggle.
Hannah Grace
in reply to Lucien • • •@lucien @realcaseyrollins
Yeah, I have to say the "private mentions" are interesting. I like that I can take a discussion from public to private within the same thread.
I like the private mentions, but they aren't DMs.
And maybe it's ok not to have DMs for now?
casey is remote
in reply to Hannah Grace • • •Hannah Grace
in reply to casey is remote • • •Well, in my view, DMs would land in an inbox, and create a continuous back and forth between two people.
If I stopped answered to your DMs, you would notice next time you opened your inbox.
Private mentions happen in threads under posts. When I stop answering there, you probably wouldn't notice.
I phrase it like this, because as a girl on the internet... I CAN get creeps in my DMs. So maybe I like that things are a bit more... decentralised here. Makes sense?
Lucien
in reply to Hannah Grace • • •@realcaseyrollins and to your point, that's probably a good reason for not having fully fledged 'DMs'.
I also don't like people popping in my inbox uninvited...
casey is remote
in reply to Lucien • • •@lucien There's a tab in the #Mastodon interface for "private mentions", it seems a whole lot like an inbox to me.
Hannah Grace
in reply to casey is remote • • •casey is remote
in reply to Hannah Grace • • •Renaud Chaput
in reply to Hannah Grace • • •@realcaseyrollins@noauthority.social @lucien
Hannah Grace
in reply to Renaud Chaput • • •Lucien
in reply to Renaud Chaput • • •benny
in reply to Lucien • • •always tired
in reply to benny • • •@benny @lucien
But is UX better there now?
I can only speak for Bluesky and on mobile it's horrible.
GJ Groothedde 🇪🇺
in reply to Hannah Grace • • •Mostafa Hussein Omar
in reply to Hannah Grace • • •Hannah Grace
in reply to Mostafa Hussein Omar • • •Yeah, what the Commission answered here isn't quite what they asked.
But with a generous reading, still an opportunity to promote the Fediverse.
always tired
in reply to Hannah Grace • • •@moftasa
I read it like the person who asked wanted a silo while the EU Commission social media people answered with the actually open alternative. Like even if there were Fedi servers that allow only people verified to be EU citizens (or residents), one could still interact with all the world across servers.
Pino Carafa
in reply to Hannah Grace • • •marzuq märzenbecher
in reply to Hannah Grace • • •Hannah Grace
Unknown parent • • •Are we just tagging other Hannahs now? 😆 💜
emilianosandri
in reply to Hannah Grace • • •Hannah Grace
Unknown parent • • •I also think that Mastodon just doesn't have a large marketing budget, that would be useful to get people on board.
That, and I think the initial step of choosing a server can be offputting
Leave X - Protect Democracy
in reply to Hannah Grace • • •Hannah Grace
Unknown parent • • •I see what you mean. I think. Actually, wait, what do you mean you are locked into a server? If I follow you, I see your posts, regardless of what server I am on, no?
PS: For the Horde! 🤘 😈
GunChleoc
in reply to Hannah Grace • • •@MissWarcraft Have you tried using filters to get most of the US politics off your timeline? fedi.tips/filtering-your-timel…
Also, hashtags are your friends, follow lots of those.
Filtering your Mastodon timeline to automatically hide posts containing certain words, phrases, hashtags, links or emoji | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse
fedi.tipsStefan Bohacek
Unknown parent • • •@MissWarcraft Where is this data from?
fedidb.com shows a bit over 1 million active accounts across all of the fediverse.
@hpod16
Darkoneko
in reply to Hannah Grace • • •Hannah Grace
in reply to Darkoneko • • •always tired
in reply to Hannah Grace • • •@darkoneko
In this case I'm not against this kind of answering only half the question tbh.
My online world would be poorer without seeing people from all over the world. Including the cool kind of people from the US.
Stefan Bohacek
Unknown parent • • •@MissWarcraft Ah, okay, it's referencing old data from mastodon-analytics.com/.
Thank you!
@hpod16
Mastodon Analytics
Mastodon AnalyticsRyek Darkener
in reply to Hannah Grace • • •Leander Lindahl
in reply to Hannah Grace • • •🔹 Jakob Givoni
in reply to Hannah Grace • • •disorderlyf
in reply to Hannah Grace • • •Michael Gisiger
in reply to Hannah Grace • • •Michael Brandtner
in reply to Hannah Grace • • •Pierre Pebble
in reply to Hannah Grace • • •xs4me2
in reply to Hannah Grace • • •Stefan Bohacek
Unknown parent • • •@MissWarcraft Maybe, but I don't think so. Political content seems to do really well on Bluesky, I see a ton of it getting shared widely.
I think it's just the toxic culture here. I've seen so many people driven out. There are too many self-righteous, gate-keepy people. On Bluesky, you can at least lock your replies, no wonder people feel safer there.
Compare the drop-off on mastodon-analytics.com vs bluefacts.app/bluesky-user-gro….
@hpod16
Mastodon Analytics
Mastodon AnalyticsStefan Bohacek
Unknown parent • • •@MissWarcraft I think it's a combination of the fediverse attracting a more techy, less socially adept crowd, with no tools for defending against harassment and unhelpful comments.
There was a hope that at least some of it was due to Mastodon not showing all replies, so people would keep piling on, but I am not sure that was really the problem.
stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/1…
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Stefan Bohacek
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LΞX/NØVΛ 🇪🇺
in reply to Hannah Grace • • •Ho Ho Ho Like The Slur
in reply to Hannah Grace • • •Hermannus Stegeman
in reply to Hannah Grace • • •hiphopheaven
in reply to Hannah Grace • • •Jiří Fiala Total Landscaping
in reply to Hannah Grace • • •Adam Williams
in reply to Hannah Grace • • •Ugh, I - as an American citizen - am so jealous. I have never in my thirty-year career in IT/Technology seen any unit of the American government make a non-terrible software/solution recommendation.
👍 Well don.e
Dan E P
in reply to Hannah Grace • • •one cannot blame them at all. Facebook, X, Instagram, and similar platforms owned by large IT companies rely on ease of use and comercial stuff to remain popular.
For good, alternatives like Mastodon remain social because they rely on recommendation rather than profit.
I try to carry my friends here, while looking for new ones (the second, being the easier).
xinit ☕ / 🗑🔥
in reply to Hannah Grace • • •Hannah Grace
in reply to xinit ☕ / 🗑🔥 • • •Maybe the social media manager was just a bit too excited about mastodon and looking for a way to promote it.
xinit ☕ / 🗑🔥
in reply to Hannah Grace • • •To be clear, the EU Commission is fine, it's the redacted person demanding the 'citizens-only' one that reads oddly to me.
I might just be cynical 😁
Hannah Grace
in reply to xinit ☕ / 🗑🔥 • • •Toni Aittoniemi
in reply to Hannah Grace • • •Pini
in reply to Hannah Grace • • •@EUCommission How about updating the UE Commission web site to include a link to Mastodon then?
I know a link to Mastodon is present on the Social Media Channels page, but it would fit way better on the front page.
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in reply to Hannah Grace • • •Maike Küper
in reply to Hannah Grace • • •MeaningfulBits
in reply to Hannah Grace • • •ity [unit X-69] - VIOLENT FUCK
in reply to Hannah Grace • • •I can't tell what to think
Is this where all of those that think the EU is any different from the US are coming from
Robert "Szkodnix"
in reply to Hannah Grace • • •Hannah Grace
in reply to Robert "Szkodnix" • • •(Although on second reading I admit that could have been better phrased, they are asking for an EU-only platform and Fedi is global...)
The Turtle
in reply to Hannah Grace • • •I imagine some genius is sure that The Solution™ is to federate all of Facebook to fediverse.
Let's find that person and make sure they can never reproduce. It'd be worse than when AOL turned loose all their mouthbreathers on Usenet decades ago.
Xodus.online
in reply to Hannah Grace • • •Elaine Baker
in reply to Xodus.online • • •Mobilizon IE - Mobilizon
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postpunkmusic.com
in reply to Stefan Bohacek • • •@stefan
@MissWarcraft @hpod16
Bsky is also the platform that verified ICE. Hard pass.
tillvu
in reply to Hannah Grace • • •Live it! Thanks for standing for the fediverse
Stefan Rolfs
in reply to Hannah Grace • • •Author-ized L.J.
in reply to Hannah Grace • • •Stefan Bohacek
in reply to postpunkmusic.com • • •@postpunkmusic
This might be a small distinction to some, but personally, I think it's a good thing that they verified the account, so that people know whether to report them for what the organization is doing versus for impersonation.
To me, a much bigger problem is that they are actually hosting that account. Why is that even necessary if Bluesky/Atmosphere is meant to be decentralized?
Either way, agree on the hard pass though.
@MissWarcraft @hpod16
Hannah Grace
in reply to Stefan Bohacek • • •Well, at least ICE's presence on BS gave us this piece of news: techcrunch.com/2026/01/20/ice-…
ICE becomes one of the most-blocked accounts on Bluesky after its verification | TechCrunch
Sarah Perez (TechCrunch)Stefan Bohacek
in reply to Hannah Grace • • •Yeah, but not a huge fan of people's blocks being public on Bluesky/ATProto. Not sure if ICE is going to do anything with that list, but I'd rather not be on it.
@postpunkmusic @MissWarcraft
Hannah Grace
in reply to Stefan Bohacek • • •Stefan Bohacek
in reply to Hannah Grace • • •Yep, that's how we know who the most blocked accounts are.
clearsky.app/icegov/blocking/b…
More details:
docs.bsky.app/blog/block-imple…
@postpunkmusic @MissWarcraft
ClearSky
clearsky.appStefan
in reply to Hannah Grace • • •That's for real, no joke? 🤯
#EuropeanCommission #Fediverse
Tiziano
in reply to Hannah Grace • •Now THIS is a reply!! 👏👏👏
Christian Schwägerl
in reply to Hannah Grace • • •David Adler
in reply to Hannah Grace • • •Callisto
in reply to Hannah Grace • • •Every time I invite someone here from Facebook or Discord or another problematic platform they have 57 different reasons why they can't.
Hon, my tech skills stopped developing roundabout Mac System 9, before it was even called "OS" or had all the cutesy codenames. If I can have worthwhile social media interactions on here, so can they.
Gabriel Viso Carrera
in reply to Hannah Grace • • •