“General” Facebook user base is not a thing.

Every social media has its own varied bubble on them.

Even Fediverse has its own bubble of malice people.

I still use Facebook because all local community on them (people never heard Reddit or even Lemmy), and people are generally nice to each other. Shares hobby and stuff just like Lemmy and the entire fediverse.

Still, I still regularly on Facebook to recommend people to join local Misskey and Mastodon instance.

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Threads did that and people still flocking to the site, despite basically doing nothing new.

I usually just browse local/public feed and likes anything that interest me. Some people ended following me, not because they want to get followed back, but because of my own post.

If it was soft-fork, than its fine. Almost all previous forks are hard-forking, splitting English community into another one.

A lot of FOSS project from non-English community often having hard time to broaden their community unless English community embrace them first. Helping non-English community also broaden FOSS community diversity and perspective, allowing them to collaborate and do cultural exchange.

Misskey. It’s second most used software in fediverse. Used in misskey.io, which has 10 thousands daily active user (possibly 100K-200K MAU).

Developed since 2014. Originally function as self-hosted microblogging, now turns into unique social media. For example:

• Misskey-flavoured Markdown, example
• social games (only two so far: Reversi and Bubble Game)
• emoji reaction like Discord (they’re the first one to implement it on fediverse)
• Antennas (tracking post with any keyword)
• Pages
• Channels (groups)
• Clips (bookmark with multiple groups, kinda like Facebook bookmarks)
• Achievement
• optional ads banner (just in case the server admin wants to do community ads, usually used for indie games, comics, vtuber, or IRL art event)

Their community is mainly Japanese, they desperately need English contributor and community to help them grow.

What’s wrong?

Tumblr on fediverse by default will increase variation of community in fediverse. Especially, fediverse right now is still mainly filled with American or European related topics.

No support for user post though…

That means nothing to federate.

That article is intended for casual readers. These people might be more familiar with Flipboard than Lemmy or Pixelfed.

The same way that people are familiar with Blackberry or Nokia despite none of them even reach mainstream market anymore.

Tag @community name@domain name, I guess?

I often see Lemmy main discussion directly posted from Mastodon or Misskey that way.

Notable example is KDE official Mastodon which regularly post on their official Lemmy instance.

• LibRate (https://codeberg.org/mjh/LibRate), implement ActivityPub. Development in halt.
• Kitsu (https://github.com/hummingbird-me), specialized for anime and manga database. Not implementing ActivityPub sadly.
• Visual Novel Database (VNDB, https://vndb.org/) has open source their site: https://code.blicky.net/yorhel/vndb While its system is mainly focused for visual novel (like heavy tagging and character database), it has the most advance release version compared to any other kind of database. Might be useful for making version database of movies, books, or any other media. No decentralization.
• AniList (https://anilist.co/), anime and manga only with heavy social features. Has promise to open source their project. No ActivityPub yet, but has possibility.

Nice observation!

A lot. Indonesian is the world’s biggest trilinguist country.

People usually speaks their local languages (there are 700+ of them), Indonesian, and other foreign language.

In my class alone there are probably 8 languages spoken by the student (usually Indonesian, Javanese, Sundanese, Banjarese, Balinese, Indonesian, Chinese, Madurese, and so on), so they can just gossiping about things and the teacher or friends wouldn’t know anything.

NeoDB has feature for exporting data from external database.

Here’s the list:

• IMDB
• The Movie Database
• Douban (Chinese film, books, music, recent events, and activities tracker)
• Google Books
• Discogs
• Spotify
• Apple Music
• Bandcamp
• Steam
• IGDB
• Bangumi (Chinese animation, comic, games, live action, and music database/tracker)
• Board Game Geek
• Archive of Our Own
• any RSS link to a podcast

Just for unique info:

NeoDB is primarily a Bangumi-clone. Bangumi (https://bangumi.tv/) is Chinese multimedia tracker, with five categorization: animation, comics, games, music, and live action.

Their community is really dedicated to maintain the most correct information, even having unique metadata that English database does not have them, like manga magazine serialization with exact volume and date.

Edit: In the future, fediverse should have solution for universal metadata sharing for media database. Avoiding potential clashes and empower user to choose their preference (which most of mainstream DB simply does not)

For example, Japanese romanization system. Right now, there’s two competing used in English database. IMDB, IGDB etc use Hepburn-romanization MyAnimeList, MangaUpdates, VNDB use system inspired by Nihon-shiki. Both format should be supported to avoid clash. Language display for multi-region system should be implemented as well. e.g.:

• English Asia user might want to see Detective Conan as official title
• English North America user might want to see Case Closed as official title.

A lot of communities on fediverse depends on menetization of their content, like comic artist, illustrator, cosplayer, and so on.

It doesn’t really show on Western fediverse, but on Japanese fediverse its really visible.

That artwork is not only featuring Mastodon mascot, but also three other fediverse mascot. Ai from Misskey and Pleroma-tan from Pleroma.

Drawn by popular artist on fediverse: David Revoy (https://framapiaf.org/@davidrevoy)

Original link for full artwork: https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/viewer/misc__2023-07-02_Oh-wow-you-are-on-fire-lately_by-David-Revoy.html (CC-BY-SA 4.0 license)

Indonesian here.

Indonesian have highest trilingual population in the world, and our country regularly import foreign pop media, like from Japan, China, Turkiye, French, Argentine, and so on.

That name seems cool and we will never have problem with it.

In fact, a lot of FOSS software in Asia almost always use local language or pop culture reference for their project. Whether it’s in Chinese, Persian, Hindi, Javanese, Japanese, and so on.

Its even more important to use various word from various language.

English as default also resulting American culture as the most prominent culture.

Newer generation are more acceptable to outside culture, so this will be work. Not to forget, the rest of non-English society already operate in multi language society and get exposed for various culture.

Years ago, people heavily localized Angliscize a lot of Asian media, but now, people are more accepting foreign naming convention. Just take a look at various FOSS porject in Japanese, Hindi, Persia, or Finnish.

There’s Mozc, but it’s oudated and no one maintain it anymore.