Too big and centralisation concerns

It was one of lemmy.world admins

More, as you have access to Mastodon/Misskey/Akkoma/etc. users too

Neither are Reddit clones (or rather: link aggregators) as NodeBB is a traditional forum but with ability of following users and comms on fediverse (if enabled) and Friendica is compared more to Facebook with more Mastodon-like feed interface. AFAIK many NodeBB instances are erroneously treated as federated as many of them has ‘nodeinfo’ turned on but do not federate. Only a minority of NodeBB users interact with the Threadiverse and some Friendica nodes (already having performance troubles) have already defederated busier Lemmy instances: too much load on software

Threadiverse is Lemmy and PieFed and MBin (technically Friendica or some NodeBB users can take part in discussions with their users too, but…).

Mastodon is able to follow/subscribe to a Lemmy community, but as Announce ,which helps to deliver entirety of votes and comments to every instance, is interpreted by Mastodon as “Boost”, a follow of a fairly popular comm will flood your timeline. Also, Mastodon is unable to create or moderate a community and only MBin and Friendica are able to follow Mastodon users.

Yes, it was /kbin. I liked it there.

Without his twattiness there would be no Mbin. And a legacy of /kbin would likely be as forgotten as e.g. Prismo…

The fork happened when Ernest was already struggling with his commitments in firefighting on emerging kbin.social technical issues, developing things which would prevent these issues to happen again, refactoring the code, likely work and life and - as a nail to the coffin - some health problems. Forking out of project leader during his troubles couldn’t not look like a some kind of backstab. However, Ernest, in a typically Polish way, has never trusted anybody else enough to enable one to develop /kbin further. This circumstances of the forking are the crux of this drama.

Melroy technically initiated the forking of Mbin, but the project itself embraces C4 and has got no (benevolent or not) dictators. Neither of largest Mbin instances are operated by maintainters of Mbin.

I liked /kbin more than Mbin, but the former eventually collapsed. You still will be able to follow people from e.g. Mastodon or Misskey and sort their posts like on Lemmy. Or subscribe/follow to any Ghost/WriteFreely/any federated WordPress blog and benefit from probably the best interface to read long forms on federation.

At least any post from that dead community will appear on you subscribed feed, if you browse it.

Do you?

I am aware of several very specific communities on Threadiverse (like anarchychess or stickenthusiasts) and as an avid Mastodon user I try to repost anything that fits these comms from there. Even if I am first poster on e.g. trouduction since 7 months. A comm may be dormant but at least someone subscribes to it.

They also provide a space for blogs, based on WordPress with federation

You can follow matrix.org via Mastodon/Misskey/Mbin/etc.

(…) and suggested the community’s hostility toward AI was symptomatic of a broader tendency to drive people away. The comparison he drew to the loss of Black Twitter in 2022 was badly misjudged, and the furious response was largely justified. Hannah Aubry, Mastodon’s community director, publicly distanced the organisation from his views. The thread blew up, accumulating hundreds of comments in a single weekend, most of them hostile, and the pattern of the community’s response is worth looking at closely.

The comparison may be misjudged, but his post did actually trigger the same dynamic, which facilitated/s racism on Mastodon (driving Black Twitter away) too. Toutes proportions gardées of course, as anti-AI scolding is much more bearable than blatant racism and harrasment. And genAI boosters don’t deserve a honour to be treated as another marginalised minority.

Mastodon-and-adjacement (maybe let’s call it the Feediverse, analogically to the Threadiverse) consist (like Threadi) of lots of different instances, but remains experienced mainly as one place. Maybe Mastodon has eased an onboarding too much and people want it to be moderated like a single app. Or, rather microblogging always will be experienced as the simple place? Definitely Black users have experienced racism mainly on place level. And instance -level tools and instance moderation mainly failed to handle it. The main problem, though, is:

One cannot be both a fediverse and a place.

Every initiative to make a place-making tool (but Fediseer, which has been created for Threadi and remains peripherial for Masto) has already received an opposition from communities. Every such an attempt will unwittingly head for takeover of the place by Elon-but-good-one-this-time, and defeat one of the purposes of the federation: independence of the central (not always a just) authority.

So, what to do for Black Twitter to return to the fedi?
Nothing, as now it’s too late. They have already made a home on ATmosphere and created first and main alternative ATProto instance: Blacksky. Nothing ActivityPub-based will be a better experience for them in foreseeable time.