• Batmorous@lemmy.world
    2·
    4 hours ago

    Let’s gooooo!!! Also hoping we can get gif support on Mastodon/Pixelfed/etc. Would he a tiny yet massive way to make the platforms more interactive. Each community can enable or disable gifs as an option and allow users to disable gif’s completely. That would be a good way to have it

  • Churlish_Witness@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    19 hours ago

    Honestly floored at how many open-source projects don’t even HAVE a Mastodon presence. Like, I get it, you need a social media presence where your users are (and at least a presence on the big, billionaire-owned platforms to at LEAST have a hedge against copycats/scammers), but at least HAVE one there. And have a Lemmy community! Yoof.

  • Dr. Moose@lemmy.worldEnglish
    28·
    1 day ago

    I don’t understand why any brand is on it. I ran a big brand account on tech product and there almost zero conversion rates coming from Twitter despite thousands of likes and views.

    Twitter is mostly bots and grifters and only product you can grow there has to be for bots and grifters.

  • arcine@jlai.lu
    178·
    2 days ago

    Amazing to see Mastodon instead of Bluesky there ! Too many people falling for the Bluesky trap…

    • thingsiplay@lemmy.ml
      72·
      2 days ago

      Yeah, I’m surprised how many go to Bluesky. It’s just Twitter all over again, controlled by a single company.

    • oh_@lemmy.world
      25·
      2 days ago

      Tbh I am on Bluesky more than Mastodon. Bluesky just feels easier to use. Normal users don’t care about federation. They want the app to work easily for them. Mastodon requires a bit to get a good feed etc. Bluesky you can be lazy. Wish Mastodon had like a default “what’s hot” or “Discover” feed. Really helps find people to follow as well.

        • morto@piefed.socialEnglish
          7·
          2 days ago

          But can it really be addressed? Centralized systems will probably always be easier to use. For example, if you want to follow a lemmy community, it will be community@somewhere instead of just the community name, and it will be possible to have competing communities with the same same but different servers. This will always leave people confused, and it’s something inherent to the federated model

          • PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            2 days ago

            That’s part of the problem. Confusion like this just leads people to not engage with the platform. I suppose it is what it is and just enjoy this place while there are still people here.

            • morto@piefed.socialEnglish
              5·
              2 days ago

              To complement my previous comment, I believe the best course for us would be, instead of trying to address something that will never be better than in centralized networks, to try creating things that are great and exclusive to the fediverse. People can deal with minor inconveniences if they get some unique experience in exchange

                • morto@piefed.socialEnglish
                  3·
                  1 day ago

                  Maybe having fediverse events, with each instance participating. Maybe even tournaments and championships, with each instance being like a team and having representative users, so that when we register in an instance, it won’t be simply entering a random server, but joining and rooting for a team.

                  That’s just a random idea. There are probably many other possibilities

        • partofthevoice@lemmy.zip
          6·
          2 days ago

          Open source content serving algorithms? We’d need to classify the content and have a server that recommends based on the algorithm. Also, user tracking to some degree (but maybe that can be handled locally?)

          • pkjqpg1h@lemmy.zipEnglish
            1·
            3 hours ago

            This is exactly what’s wrong with social media platforms and I don’t want to use anything like that.

          • ElegantBiscuit@lemmy.zip
            2·
            1 day ago

            I don’t see how it couldn’t theoretically be done on the user’s end with the right client. Choose a certain feed and the client takes the information shared in the incoming post data like the title, description, community, vote count, and instance. Then isolates each post, classifies it, ranks it based on user preferences stored locally like upvote and downvote history, and the client then chooses the order of posts to show to the user. And if you wanted to go there you could even have a local simple machine learning model creating descriptions of image posts to cover everything.

            Granted I actually know nothing about programming, but I don’t think you’d actually be processing that much data if you kept the algorithm simple. All it actually has to do is just choose a ranking based on metrics and keywords and assigned values. It also doesn’t have to achieve maximum retention or have single digit millisecond load time, it just has to give people a customized experience.

            The problem is that all this overhead and maintenance would require some form of monetization, like injecting ads into the feed. Something like that has almost no demand right now, because the options we have for sorting are good enough and the people who want custom algorithms don’t know what federation means and aren’t paying. And honestly I think it might be better without it, because personally I don’t want lemmy to go mainstream and am happy with where it is now. I sort by top of the day in All, which basically crowdsources ranking anyways.

          • ageedizzle@piefed.caEnglish
            3·
            2 days ago

            I think a simple ‘popular’ or ‘trending’ feed wouldn’t need user tracking. Or if it was really needed to be customized maybe users could opt into share what topics they are interested in when they sign up

      • leadore@lemmy.world
        14·
        2 days ago

        Wish Mastodon had like a default “what’s hot” or “Discover” feed. Really helps find people to follow as well.

        You mean like Mastodon’s “Trending” and “Discover” feeds?

      • Fedizen@lemmy.world
        14·
        2 days ago

        The last couple mastodon updates made it easier to access the trending feed (which afaik has existed since 2021) and added features like quote posts. Bluesky starter packs and custom shareable feeds are definitely its major perks.

        The odds though bluesky will get bought up by right wing billionaires in the next 10 years is almost 100% unless there’s a major change in media management laws so don’t get too attached to bluesky since there is like a nonzero chance trump jr buys it with his crypto bribes.

      • thingsiplay@lemmy.ml
        12·
        2 days ago

        I don’t think that ease of use is the problem. The problem is, people want an exact copy. Most people don’t like changes, they just hope that the alternative is the same, just without the issues they leaving it. Same expectations for GIMP and Linux operating systems… (for the normie at least).

      • garretble@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        2 days ago

        “Trending” gets you somewhat the way there to a “what’s hot.” Though I wish it’d update more often.

        But, in reality, that just means I get off of my phone sooner because I’ve seen the same stuff so that’s fine.

  • Jankatarch@lemmy.world
    32·
    2 days ago

    My dad is a 60 year old warehouse manager and ex highschool-principal.

    I recently found that he prefers using libreoffice at work for spreadsheets.

    • Regular Water@lemmy.eco.br
      5·
      2 days ago

      I did a test with a group of gen z on my work (I’m the IT guy) that never used excel before (Or used only once), and most of them liked libreoffice. The only detail was the ones that used Excel before, i change the interface to the microsoft one, but they did not liked. So they ask for the original from microslop…

      • sp3ctre@feddit.org
        24·
        2 days ago

        Hehe, unfortunately not. But maybe you can read them soon with their brilliant software!

      • Jankatarch@lemmy.world
        4·
        2 days ago

        Libredoffices, what Nintendon’t.

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