@lufertec

I don't think so? There are a lot of interesting accounts listed at fedi.directory

@happykhan

Anything in particular you want help with?

There is lots of help for new people on the website at fedi.tips (especially Quick Start at the top of the screen).

@hisold

You could try Mbin which is another Reddit-style platform on the Fediverse. It's at an earlier stage of development, but you can find out more at joinmbin.org

(By the way, Mbin is a continuation of an earlier project called Kbin. Kbin stopped development but its code formed the basis of Mbin.)

@hisold

Another option is the forum software NodeBB which is now part of the Fediverse. You can follow NodeBB members directly. More info at social.growyourown.services/@F…

Fedi.Tips 🎄

2025-01-21 18:02:34

The free open source forum software NodeBB is now part of the Fediverse. You can now follow and interact with members of NodeBB-powered forums from other Fediverse servers.

For example, their co-founder's account on NodeBB is @julian and you can interact with them from Mastodon etc.

You can follow the latest news about NodeBB at:

➡️ @nodebb

Their official website is at:

➡️ nodebb.org

If you want technical details see the documentation at:

➡️ docs.nodebb.org/activitypub

#Fediverse

Home | NodeBB | Your Community Forum Platform

NodeBB is the next generation community forum platform. Built on open source software, we've helped hundreds of companies engage their customers.

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@brandtsteenkamp

Maybe the developer @ihabunek could help?

@eelcoa

It's slightly complicated compared to other share buttons, as it doesn't know which server the person doing the sharing is on.

Some share buttons handle this by asking which server the person wants to share to:

mastodonshare.com

bentasker.co.uk/posts/document…

palant.info/2023/10/19/impleme…

@osiris

Some types of Fediverse software have implemented this, but it comes at a cost. Calckey/Firefish (which is no longer maintained) allowed imports of Mastodon post archives, but I think the upload process used a lot of server resources and slowed the server down. It also broke any replies to the old posts as they were technically new posts.

The existing migration process on Mastodon doesn't delete your old posts, it effectively puts a redirect to your new account on them.

@osiris

If you really, really need to have full control of your posts, you can create your own server.

This isn't as expensive or difficult as people think, it starts from a few euros a month through managed hosting services (which do all the technical stuff for you), e.g. masto.host/pricing

This also lets you move your posts to a different hosting provider by copying the database, and doesn't break threads either.

But obviously this isn't going to be for everyone.

@jettebastian

Your server decides what the character limit is for posts. On your server, mastodon.social, the limit is 500 characters.

There are other servers with much higher limits, or practically no limit at all. For example many of the "Glitch Mastodon"-powered servers have much higher limits, you can find some nice ones listed at fedi.garden/tag/glitch-mastodo…

There is lots more info about this topic at:

➡️ fedi.tips/why-do-some-people-o…

@Ayako

I don't know of any Pinterest equivalent, sorry!

@danielcasanueva

To keep running costs low, servers only "notice" posts and accounts in certain circumstances (there's a list at fedi.tips/which-posts-and-acco…).

If it only notices some replies from a thread but not others, you may see incomplete threads and profiles. There is more on this topic at fedi.tips/why-arent-all-mastod…

On a slightly different topic, in some cases servers may block other servers, which would also prevent replies from that server being seen.

@danilasch

You can follow people from other servers, but you cannot use your account to log in on other servers.

If you want to publish photos you can do so on your existing Mastodon account and they will be visible on Pixelfed.

(There is technically a "log in with Mastodon" button on Pixelfed servers, but this is a highly misleading name. It doesn't actually log people in, it just creates a brand new unconnected Pixelfed account using info from the Mastodon account.)

@stevo887

Really good question!

The server lists at fedi.garden and joinmastodon.org/servers require all listed servers to give three months warning if they ever shut down, which gives members time to transfer their accounts elserwhere.

You can also browse Fedi.Garden by the year a server was founded, if you are more comfortable on servers that have been around a long while: fedi.garden/servers-sorted-by-…

@sybrand

Two separate things going on:

-Some people choose to hide their follows/followers as Danny said. More info on this at fedi.tips/how-to-hide-your-fol…

-All servers hide follows/followers from other servers when viewing profiles of accounts from other servers.

This second thing is probably what you're seeing. Apparently this happens due to privacy concerns, but they perhaps aren't justified (some very technical discussion of this at github.com/mastodon/mastodon/i…).

@originalucifer

You can call them whatever you want 🙂

Traditionally they're called toots on Mastodon, but as a lot of people on the Fediverse aren't on Mastodon (there are lots of different types of platform here) it's usually safest to call them posts.

Pixelfed.social is really really overwhelmed at the moment, it's getting too big. You might want to sign up on a different server? People will still be able to follow you whichever server you choose.

pixey.org has been pretty good for example (and it currently has IG imports switched on).

Bear in mind though IG imports use resources, so any server may switch them off temporarily if they're busy with lots of new users.

@stevenaleach

1. Log in on your server's website
2. Go to your profile page (click on your profile image to do this)
3. Click ⋯ and select "Muted users"

Ah, Thanks! I would never have realized that "..." was a menu.

All of the other UI elements have text labels, I never noticed there was an unlabeled menu.

And hey, Followed Hashtags is in there too! Nice. That's something else I've been hunting for.

@adam

It may be that the groups you've joined aren't very busy at the moment, you might want to do a post that mentions the group to see if that encourages responses?

(Also though, Guppe does sometimes get a backlog of posts to deliver.)

@dites_33

Hi!

There is no direct tool for importing things from Facebook. You would have to manually repost anything you want to move.

I don't know of any servers on that particular topic, but topics are usually discussed across many servers. So, you might want to try following hashtags and groups related to that topic.

@dites_33

De rien!

@perennialautonomy

What are you using to access Pixelfed?

If you're using a Mastodon app, that may limit you to four images.

You should be able to post more than four images if you log in on your Pixelfed server's website, or if you use a dedicated Pixelfed app.