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what do you guys think about the #future of the #fediverse ? i believe most people want it to be #mainstream , as it is better than normal social media.

considering this how prepared are we in terms of scaling? and by that i mean how small can #instances be?

assuming that the fediverse becomes mainstream there would be billions of people using it,

the problems appears when we consider the distribution of people in those instances,

i do believe that we can all agree that if there were only a few thousand instances with millions of people that wouldn't be ideal, as we lose most of the benefits of small instances. although it would still be better than today's situation.

we need to have many more instances than a few thousand, i don't know which size of instances is optimal or which distribution is best but i think this is something we should discuss.

assuming the ideal is around or lower than a few thousand. we would have millions of instances,

but if the servers are small there would be a limited number of connections they could federate with,
i don't know this number and it would increase in there future as better computers would exist.

but i find it hard that a instance with a few thousand people could federate with hundreds of thousands or millions of instances,

it would be a shame if there were no way of discovering people outside of instances you already know,

so nowadays how hard is it to interact with people in instances you don't directly federate with?

ie i have my instance A which federates with B and B federates with C but A doesn't federate with C, can people in A interact with people in C and i
am just worrying about #federation without a reason?

if yes is there a limit for how many links could be between A and C?

if we want to increase the number of instances it should be easy to setup a server.

how hard is it to create a #mastodon or other types of fediverse servers?
i looked about setting up a Hubzilla server and it was somewhat involved.
are Friendica servers or others any easier?

@b6hydra thanks for the links, also i think you are right i probably will be happier in another software, i had lots of good interactions with friendly people but the federated timeline is just so bad.

And i think i have a mismatch with mastodon, although i like the idea of following some people and seeing all their posts ,

i find it increasingly obvious that i don't like it being the default way of interacting with people.

i am already liking the fediverse as i will still be able to interact with the cool people i am following even if i switch to friendica or hubzilla,

actually hubzilla seems to be the most full featured fediverse galaxy it's a shame that it seems like all hubs are in languages i don't know. so i will probably go use friendica.

now that i think about it most people in the fediverse are using mastodon. well at least people can switch easily.

@satoshi its add and subtract memory, M+ adds to the memory by the amount shown and M- does the same just with subtraction

@canwolf sorry i must have misunderstood your post, but are you saying that i shouldn't look for interactions in a social media platform? if i want to interact with other people i NEED either followers or to be following people.
i can't control who follows me so the solution is to follow people,
if i want to find people to follow there are only so many ways to do that,
i could look for interesting people in other sites, the problem with this option is that i have yet to see someone link to their mastodon on a blog or youtube video or reddits post or anywhere, so this option is inviable.

that leaves me with only in-site options the search bar as i mentioned could use some improvements, and the public timelines are horrible. so something needs to change.

ok i browsed a little, posted some , and followed some people so i want to talk about my first impression about mastodon, and about the QOTO instance.

firstly i want to say that i never used twitter or any other microblogging platform so the format is new to me.

the main thing i want to talk about is that starting out is hard, the federated timeline is full of things which range from uninteresting to offensive and finding anything that interests me is like finding a needle in a haystack.
the local timeline isn't much better though i imagine that if i created my account on a smaller more theme focused instance that wouldn't be the case.

i hope that as i follow more people add them to lists and groups my home timeline will be full of interesting things so that i won't need to browse the federated or local timeline.
however i am not certain this
will be the case.
i imagine that if i was introduced to mastodon by a friend i would have a easier time.

i think that the experience could have been better, if i could browse posts by instance or the search was better. i still will use the fediverse as i believe in the idea but i am unsure about mastodon.

I believe something should be done to facilitate new users finding content, ideally it would be a full featured search engine, so that new users could easily find what they want. but even a tab showing trending topics or chronologically show all posts that match certain criteria would help.
#fediverse #mastodon #qoto

@calculsoberic@mstdn.social @Aleums how do you see the signups? or is it something more anecdotal?

@alcinnz i love grep and find but nowadays there exist better tools like fd and ripgrep

i figured it out, for peertube you just get the link and search for it on your homepage and then any reply to the video is displayed as a comment in the video. i thought it would be significantly more difficult. i assume that for any of the others is the same thing browse on the other site then when you want contribute to the discussion you just search for the link and then can comment. i find this amazing you can interact with anyone in the fediverse from your preferred format.

@rdm does revolt federate with the fediverse or are there plans to add federation?

i am confused about the #fediverse on https://fediverse.party/en/mastodon/ it says that mastodon can connect with a variety of other fediverse projects but how would i go about doing that?

being more specific if there is a video on a peertube instance how can i leave a comment from a mastodon account?

@pixouls not specifically small web related but i sometimes like to search at https://ipfs-search.com/#/search .

also there exists https://yacy.net/ which if you like decentralized solutions is worth looking at.