I actually think that too. But unfortunately, Mastodon is the only project outside the Fediverse that has been reported on by high-reach media. As a result, universities and the scientific community are now very fixated on Mastodon, without knowing that there are more alternatives in the Fediverse that might have been more suitable for them.

After all, before choosing a server, the first crucial step is to choose the software/service that can be used to access the Fediverse. But even that was repeatedly presented as ‘too complicated’, so that almost everyone was directed to Mastodon.

The questions that were skipped during onboarding are then asked later by almost everyone and have to be answered individually for everyone.

Thank you, yes, I didn’t read carefully enough. But there is hope for Hypatia!

If I understand correctly, Hypatia will continue with a new maintainer and is now in the Izzy repo

Everything is better ;-)

i.e. mailbox.org, posteo.de; there are also protonmail and tuta.com, but they don’t have IMAP

does this mean that the option to receive text posts no longer exists OR is this option now the default setting?

Sharkey is also for microblogging but it also has some extra features, including user sites that can be used as a kind of blog and it “can play module / tracker music files - can play Flash (swf) - (federated) listenbrainz integration, …”

I haven’t tried these functions yet

Cryptpad Forms or Framaforms are good for simple surveys. For more complex surveys there is Limesurvey.

Thanks for the great concept! It would be really important to develop something like this.

“The differences between Fediverse platforms (Mastodon, Lemmy, Pixelfed, etc.)”

It would make things a lot easier if you were supported in advance in deciding which platform / software is best suited. At the moment, many people don’t even realise that they have a choice and they often start with Mastodon because that’s all they know. For some, it does fit, but many are not actually looking for a Twitter clone and not just microblogging and are then disappointed or confused.

I had once made drafts for a kind of “FediChooser” (alluding to Distrochooser), which, after answering a few questions about needs, expectations, experiences, gives one or more recommendations which platform would subjectively fit best for you.

You may also use one of the Fediverse macroblogging services for blogging: Friendica and Hubzilla allow you to write and design texts without a character limit. WriteFreely and Plume are also available specifically for blogging.

You may also use one of the Fediverse macroblogging services for blogging: Friendica and Hubzilla allow you to write and design texts without a character limit. WriteFreely and Plume are also available specifically for blogging.

Pinetta is under development: “A FOSS, federated, ActivityPub-enabled pinboard thingy, in the style of Pinterest.”. I don’t know anything else about it, but only discovered it on this list: delightful fediverse apps (“A curated list of server applications with support for the ActivityPub protocol (known as the fediverse) and related standards.”)

That is probably the default setting. However, you can also set Pixelfed to display posts without an image. I don’t know where exactly, but Pixelfed users wrote this because it has been asked about it several times.

Maybe it works the same way with Pixelfed as it does between Mastodon etc. and Lemmy? 🚀 A little guide on how to communicate with Lemmy from Mastodon Friendica Hubzilla Sharkey etc..

I have not yet been able to test it with Pixelfed because I don’t have an account.

Yes, I also find that another problem with Mastodon, that they display posts from other software so poorly or incompletely (e.g. with Peertube not the video description, not all images etc.). And I share your view of the desire for dominance in the Fediverse and there have been corresponding conflicts between developers in the past. One point of conflict a few years ago was that the Mastodon dev didn’t want group functions, so Mastodon can’t create groups.

But I still don’t quite understand what you mean by the problem “do not appear in an orderly manner”? What does that have to do with groups?

But if you click on an OP on Mastodon (whether from Lemmy or wherever) , there is already a thread view that is quite ok and shows the structure and progress chronologically.

You may have to click twice in Mastodon because you can’t see in the timeline whether a post is an OP or a reply to it.

"mastodon users can overcome the serious problem of not being able to view Lemmy communities in an orderly "

This is generally the way Mastodon displays posts, that they do not appear in an orderly manner. Mastodon does this with all posts, No matter whether they come from Lemmy or Friendica, Akkoma or Mastodon. This has nothing to do with Lemmy. Posts/replies in Mastodon always appear individually and without context in the timeline. In the timeline, the latest posts/replies (Mastodon does not differentiate between them) always appear at the top, then many other individual posts, then at some point the question about the reply from above and so on. (I personally find that very confusing, but this is probably the common microblogging style and one of several reasons why I also prefer Friendica over Mastodon, because Friendica has a very good thread view, which I miss in Mastodon)

… but thank you very much for the tip that Racoon also works well with Mastodon. A very good tip for Mastodon users! 👍

Yes, thanks for the hint. I’d heard that before, I’ll try to update it bit by bit. In the linked article about kbin I had already added a note and linked to mbin.

We are also looking for someone to write an article about mbin for the Fediverse article series for gnulinux.ch. If you (or someone else) would like to do this, please get in touch. It could also be written in English and we will then translate it.

In my experience, I can’t see any difference in speed between different launchers. But just try it out, install a few and then delete the ones you don’t like.

The interface design is based on how iOS works, for example to move an icon on your phone long press one of the icons and wait till they all go wiggling and then drag the icon to where you want to have it.

In case you don’t like the interface, you can also simply install a different launcher and set it as the default start app. There really is a lot to choose from: https://android.izzysoft.de/applists/category/named/tools_launcher?lang=en

Here is A list of server known to run flohmarkt