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• An honest discussion in the current state of the Fediverse

  I feel that it is time to have an honest discussion on the state of the fediverse. Mastodon was founded a decade ago, and since then has roughly 1 million monthly active users. That is 0.25% of the MAU of twitter/X currently (which has itself seen declines over the years). Pixelfed has 250k monthly active users, which is 0.008% of Instagrams 3 billion MAU. Friendica has 5000 MAU which is essentially 0% of the 3.1 billion MAU that Facebook has. Overall, even if you combine every f...

• Post #2563589

  *totally not a genocide though

• Fediverse features for mutual aid/community organizing

  I feel that decentralized social networks can help to realize some important functions for communities with regard to mutual aid and community building, but I do not see much action happening on that front, or at least I have not heard about them. Specifically I would like to discuss how we can build mutual aid networks on the fediverse. What sorts of interactions or platforms would be needed to make this a reality? Feature 1: Classified ads - “I need” or “I have” identifiers on posts al...

• Piefed.social login says I was banned, but all signs point to my profile still being active.

  I am experiencing a strange situation where when I try to log into piefed.social, I get a notification that says “You have been banned.”. I initially took this at face value, and assumed I had somehow broken a rule, but upon trying to see why I was banned, I could not find any evidence that I had actually been banned, besides my login credentials producing that message. The first anomaly was the inability to find any entry in the modlogs for my username (korendian or robert.meyer86@piefed.so...