nice! small bug report, it does display non ascii domains like this xn--y9aey5fdz.xn--y9a3aq (i tested searching for blogging/writefreely/all/small/established.
@aspensmonster Something to consider: I solved a similar question of how to balance "quality" vs improved discoverability for more obscure entries (in a different domain) by doing:
- "featured + ~5% random shuffle/mix chance per entry"
This way there is plenty at the top of what many people may be looking for. Along with giving more obscure entries a better chance at visibility that may just pay off if the right person sees it.
@Preston Maness ☭ @Daniel Supernault Small instances make sense as communities that aggregate from the bottom and involve users starting from local projects or thematic initiatives. Small instances, on the other hand, must not be ovaries that collect disoriented users who come from the large databases of the fediverse, otherwise two problems are created: - some small instances would not be able to handle the crowding - some of those users would find themselves in poorly managed instances, with discontinuity of service and poorly connected to the rest of the Fediverse. In fact, some small instances are little gems, but a part of the small instances is burdened by a very high mortality and is poorly managed both in terms of reliability and in terms of privacy
@Daniel Supernault Unfortunately, there is no possibility to sort instances based on the number of active users, a criterion that was well present in the old fedidb.org interface. In fact, this criterion is much more important than the one related to the total number of users. In fact, there are very old instances with a mortality rate higher than 90% that are very numerous, but in reality are not very active.
PS: why are my poliverso.org instance and Ruud's friendica.world friendica.world instance still missing? 😭
@notizie @ThePfromtheO I did just manually fix this, the issue was your server was unreachable by our crawler more than 2 times since May 5th, I think there is a bug in the crawler, I will work on a fix.
some of the suggested platforms have very vague or overly technical descriptions making it unclear what they are for if you haven’t heard of them before
I dont think this works as is: step 2 is "choose platform". The naive user has _no idea_ on platforms. How are they supposed to choose here? I would suggest that as a _last_ step, with preselecting all as the default IMHO 😀
(why would anyone be selecting by technology anyway?!?!)
(and, definitely, if you get only one choice in step 2 it should be skipped completely. I picked 'photography" when experimenting, and got only pixelfed and assumed it meant the main pixedfed instance, not the technology...)
There's no native support for this via ActivityPub as far as I'm aware, but do you know what'd be REALLY cool for people interested in joining?
Subject matter interests.
Like a list of tags like "Politics" or "Cats" or "Furry" or "Tabletop Gaming" or "Crafting" etc., and then you could pick tags to include or exclude ("show me results that have Cats and Crafting but no Tabletop Gaming") and generate recommendations based on that.
Then prompt folks to pick 10 tags to include/exclude.
I like it. I would suggest to change the word "servers" to "communities" just because some people (non-technical) start to panic when they hear "technical" words.
@readbeanicecream Server instead seems to me the best compromise: "server" is more usable and understandable than "instance". Be careful not to underestimate the fact that the term communities already exists in the Fediverse: in fact, the term "communities" is happily used by all Lemmy and Piefed users, to indicate in their platform the "Activitypub Groups", exactly like the Mbin "magazines", the BBCode "categories" and the Friendica "groups". Now since Lemmy represents one of the most used software in the Fediverse, it would not be wise to call the instances with the name of communities, but would instead create a bit of confusion
the most important thing a wise newbe should consider when picking is: who runs the instance? What kind of philosophies guide their mod decisions? What is the hosting setup (for reliability, regeonality and jurisdiction)? Do they block federation to anyone?
would be cool if this enabled insight to that stuff.
A note on the info relating to tusky, the app: it also works with friendica accounts, despite treating and presenting them as a mastodon account (i.e., it loses friendica-specific capabilities), so it's not strictly a mastodon app.
It should definitely have a little addition to the "Choose your platform" page that compares to existing sites.
Normal users don't know what the heck the difference is between Mastodon or Pixelfed, nor do they always realize that "photo sharing" is what you'd describe something like Instagram as.
I believe there should be some kind of comparison. (e.g. Mastodon - description - Similar to: Twitter/X, Bluesky)
@superball @futurebird oh, somehow i completely missed it the first time, so, ANT TAX, terrible picture from today, in Ilha Grande, RJ, brazil. not sure if princess/queen or male, but pretty confident it's ant with wings 😂, and it is small!
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"nice! small bug report,"
Got really excited about this for a moment
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in reply to dansup • • •@aspensmonster Something to consider: I solved a similar question of how to balance "quality" vs improved discoverability for more obscure entries (in a different domain) by doing:
- "featured + ~5% random shuffle/mix chance per entry"
This way there is plenty at the top of what many people may be looking for. Along with giving more obscure entries a better chance at visibility that may just pay off if the right person sees it.
Poliverso - notizie dal Fediverso ⁂
in reply to Preston Maness ☭ • •- some small instances would not be able to handle the crowding
- some of those users would find themselves in poorly managed instances, with discontinuity of service and poorly connected to the rest of the Fediverse. In fact, some small instances are little gems, but a part of the small instances is burdened by a very high mortality and is poorly managed both in terms of reliability and in terms of privacy
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in reply to dansup • • •Suggestion 1: "Asia" is too broad of a category. Might want to break it up.
Suggestion 2: Maybe add one more filter for the server's default/recommended language?
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in reply to dansup • • •Poliverso - notizie dal Fediverso ⁂
in reply to dansup • •@Daniel Supernault Unfortunately, there is no possibility to sort instances based on the number of active users, a criterion that was well present in the old fedidb.org interface. In fact, this criterion is much more important than the one related to the total number of users. In fact, there are very old instances with a mortality rate higher than 90% that are very numerous, but in reality are not very active.
PS: why are my poliverso.org instance and Ruud's friendica.world friendica.world instance still missing? 😭
fedidb.com/software/friendica
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in reply to ThePfromtheO • •@ThePfromtheO Thanks for the good news. I hope friendica.world will come back soon too, it is currently the most active Friendica instance
@Daniel Supernault
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in reply to Poliverso - notizie dal Fediverso ⁂ • • •Do you mean this? If yes, it "came back"
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in reply to Poliverso - notizie dal Fediverso ⁂ • • •Sorry, but…
What was the problem? 🗯️
Why weren't you able to find them? Was that a "quick fix" from @dansup?
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in reply to ThePfromtheO • •@ThePfromtheO I couldn't find them because they weren't there 😅
It's already happened other times that they disappeared from fedidb.org
It's probably because of the robosts.txt file and some policies that we had to take to block the damned Meta bots
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in reply to Poliverso - notizie dal Fediverso ⁂ • • •AI makes nearly everything worse, in a way or another... 🙁
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in reply to dansup • •@Daniel Supernault Great, thanks! ♥️
PS: If you think we need to fix some configuration issues, let us know what we need to do to fix it
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in reply to dansup • • •I dont think this works as is: step 2 is "choose platform". The naive user has _no idea_ on platforms. How are they supposed to choose here?
I would suggest that as a _last_ step, with preselecting all as the default
IMHO 😀
(why would anyone be selecting by technology anyway?!?!)
(and, definitely, if you get only one choice in step 2 it should be skipped completely. I picked 'photography" when experimenting, and got only pixelfed and assumed it meant the main pixedfed instance, not the technology...)
but love the concept!!!!! 😀
André Menrath
in reply to dansup • • •Legit_Spaghetti
in reply to dansup • • •There's no native support for this via ActivityPub as far as I'm aware, but do you know what'd be REALLY cool for people interested in joining?
Subject matter interests.
Like a list of tags like "Politics" or "Cats" or "Furry" or "Tabletop Gaming" or "Crafting" etc., and then you could pick tags to include or exclude ("show me results that have Cats and Crafting but no Tabletop Gaming") and generate recommendations based on that.
Then prompt folks to pick 10 tags to include/exclude.
readbeanicecream
in reply to dansup • • •I like it. I would suggest to change the word "servers" to "communities" just because some people (non-technical) start to panic when they hear "technical" words.
Great job!
Poliverso - notizie dal Fediverso ⁂
in reply to readbeanicecream • •@readbeanicecream Server instead seems to me the best compromise: "server" is more usable and understandable than "instance". Be careful not to underestimate the fact that the term communities already exists in the Fediverse: in fact, the term "communities" is happily used by all Lemmy and Piefed users, to indicate in their platform the "Activitypub Groups", exactly like the Mbin "magazines", the BBCode "categories" and the Friendica "groups". Now since Lemmy represents one of the most used software in the Fediverse, it would not be wise to call the instances with the name of communities, but would instead create a bit of confusion
@Daniel Supernault
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in reply to dansup • • •the most important thing a wise newbe should consider when picking is: who runs the instance? What kind of philosophies guide their mod decisions? What is the hosting setup (for reliability, regeonality and jurisdiction)? Do they block federation to anyone?
would be cool if this enabled insight to that stuff.
Dennis Faucher
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in reply to dansup • • •It should definitely have a little addition to the "Choose your platform" page that compares to existing sites.
Normal users don't know what the heck the difference is between Mastodon or Pixelfed, nor do they always realize that "photo sharing" is what you'd describe something like Instagram as.
I believe there should be some kind of comparison. (e.g. Mastodon - description - Similar to: Twitter/X, Bluesky)
Medea Vanamonde🏳️⚧️ ♀
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Yeah we need a lot more knuckle dragging tool users on here.
Gabriel Pettier
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in reply to Gabriel Pettier • • •This is a nice small bug report.
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