I’m excited about this #forkiverse experiment to take back control of our social feeds. But one main question I have is how are we able to manage the many levels of conversations that humans engage in? I love jokes and pithy comments and I love deep meaningful conversations. But I always find it jarring to navigate a feed that merges all of them together indiscriminately.
@stefan I’m going to add a referral to @FediTips for general advice to #forkiverse newcomers to #Fediverse
Hey #forkiverse people, and everyone else who has joined us recently!
You might be just learning about the thing that makes fediverse special, that it's made up of many communities spread across many servers running different platforms.
Now, I won't bore anyone with how all that works, but here are two cool ways to visualize this.
- https://data.stefanbohacek.com/projects/fediverse lets you see which servers you are connected to (I made this one!)
- https://moderation-explorer.online helps you understand the shared responsibility of fediverse moderators
Hope you'll enjoy!
2026: year of the #Forkiverse
@petunia any questions here @FediTips is great at answering. Short answer is that #forkiverse needs time to fetch info from all the other servers, and you need to have links to them via messages boosts etc. So it might take a while. More interaction will help!
#fediverse n00b question: why does the tags/ page on the #forkiverse have less posts than on the mastadon.social instance? Ex:
https://theforkiverse.com/tags/thicktrunkthursday
vs
https://mastodon.social/tags/thicktrunkthursday
Both say "2 posts · 2 participants · 1 post today" but on Forkiverse I only see two posts while on the mastadon.social page I see a bunch of thiccc trunk picccs
As a researcher of alternative social media platforms, I couldn’t resist joining the #forkiverse.
If you’re reading this, I’d love to hear your story. What brought you here? What keeps you here?
I have yet to figure out an effective way to use multiple accounts but I can suck it up for #SearchEngine #forkiverse Main: https://ohai.social/@DrSuzanne
To our new #forkiverse pals.
A thing it took me a while to understand when I first joined Mastodon is what federation actually means for us users.
There are Fediverse equivalents to a bunch of things. @peertube is like youtube. @PixelFed is like instagram. @loops is like tiktok.
But you can use your Mastodon account to interact with these. It would be like if you could follow, like and comment on a youtube video direct from your facebook account. No additional sign up.
#introduction
Hi. I don’t have anything to sell or a ‘profile’ to build, I’m simply looking for interesting and cool interactions. Been a fan of @pj since forever and just love the idea of the #forkiverse. I look forward to being enlightened and entertained by you all and, who knows, maybe even getting to know some of you. Excited to see what lies ahead…