Couple of months ago, dansup posted a poll which platform to be next to get a migration-tool. Nothing but Instagram yet.

As part of a small party instance, I would like to point out that there are restrictions, e.g. only comments from users who are also followed by someone on their own instance are visible - unless the admin has linked the instance to an external bridge. Furthermore, I recommend to have contact details of an admin outside Mastodon at hand - because if the instance is not reachable, it will quickly become unpleasant.

If you know what you’re getting into and want to accept that so: You can find all instances on https://mastodon.fediverse.observer/list. In addition to Mastodon, I also recommend taking a look at Soapbox (e.g. postblue.social) or Firefish (e.g. firefish.social), which are more modern and offer many more features like formatted posts and quoted posts, but have no character limit like Mastodon.

The problem is that Mastodon, unlike Lemmy or Friendica, requires a mention of you to get a notification of a response, even if it’s your post. Plus, if you don’t have a follower from the instance of the user that replied (which is always the case if it’s a Lemmy-user), the reply won’t even appear.

I don’t see a solution for this.

The pupose of a Like button is to express that you like the post.

And even if this was the reasoning – which is baffling enough as it is

What is baffling about it? The function fulfills exactly the purpose that its name promises.

it wouldn’t make sense since the whole point of boosting something is to tell the public that you like a post.

With a boost, you pass the post to your followers. This is a different feature accordingly.

Like before Boost often seems useful, but hardly in case of bad news.

Only fascists talk like that at their conferences. And then it doesn’t sound much better in other languages.

There are a hell of a lot of good examples of how terrible our language is, but that’s nonsense.

Thanks, that makes sense. Just to double-check: replies are synced across servers, correct?

No. You will only see comments by users who have at least 1 follower on your local instance, at least in the official UI/app.

client for decentralized social network Mastodon which focuses on simple and functional design

For those who are looking for something similar available on both Android and iOS: Recommendation for tooot. Special feature, especially for users of small instances: It loads the comments from the original instance when you open toots, so you don’t just see comments from users who are known on your instance. I haven’t seen this on another app yet on Android.

Web Scrobbler for Streaming.

mastodon.art is quite controversial, as it probably has the longest instance blocklist far and wide: https://fba.ryona.agency/?reverse=mastodon.art

Of course, there is a lot to moderate, but there are definitely many among them that are anything but known for tolerating or spreading problematic content.

The person can barely be identified. So unlikely this directly shames or affects him.

I’m worried about overweight kids receiving such jokes in their school-chatgroups, not the guy in person.

Now things out of a person’s control (skin color, height, physical abnormalities, etc) should be off the table unless the individual explicitly states otherwise.

There is a significant relationship between the political/economic system a person is in and the prevalence of obesity in a society. What system someone is born into is beyond the control of the individual.

Fatshaming is embarrassing.