Boost is not the same thing as quote posting. Boost is like retweet. A quote post is like when you make a post that references someone else’s post, it looks similar to including a screenshot of their post in your own post, except it’s a real link.

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/09/introducing-quote-posts/

They added support to view quote posts before they added the ability to create quote posts

• Add search field to community sidebar by @Nutomic in #3217

This is amazing

I said “ideally”, but they probably would’ve done a lot of things differently if they were committed to decentralization

Well 25% is very strict, pretty sure mastodon.social is more than that for the Fediverse (I do wish other instances would grow faster to catch up)

But yea anything higher than 50% is kinda missing the point, ideally they would close signups and suggest people signup on alternative instances instead

Majority share is too powerful

join-lemmy.org actually hides any instance that’s over 30% of Lemmy https://github.com/LemmyNet/joinlemmy-site/blob/main/src/shared/components/instances.tsx#L451-L456

Getting in here before there’s any comments, I haven’t seen this episode yet. But really loving this season, what a comeback for the series!

Seems like it, but nothing here yet aside from the official instance

https://loops.fediverse.observer/list

https://f-droid.org/packages/dev.djara.wafrn_rn

No, the article is about Mastodon.social’s nonprofit

Are you talking about Mastodon gGmbH? https://joinmastodon.org/de/about

Mastodon gGmbH is a non-profit from Germany that develops the Mastodon software. Mastodon started in 2016 as an open-source project by Eugen Rochko

https://github.com/mastodon

Mastodon gGmbH is a German non-profit developing a decentralized social network

The title says Mastodon, not mastodon.social, and it appears that Eugen was talking about the Fediverse or Mastodon, not mastodon.social specifically (hence the word decentralization, the discussion was not centralized on mastodon.social).

I think people are mixing up the discussion between Mastodon vs mastodon.social too much. Eugen and his non-profit are the developers of Mastodon, so it makes sense for them to be talking it up.

“One of the reasons Mastodon was founded was to allow different jurisdictions to have social media that is independent of the U.S.,” per the statement shared with TechCrunch. “People are free to choose to have their account on a Mastodon server whose policies meet their needs.”

That quote from the article does NOT say mastodon.social

To be clear, it doesn’t matter where your instance is hosted. Mastodon.social is not hosted in Mississippi, either, it’s hosted in Berlin.

There are other countries… watch and see how many instances just ignore the law, there will be many in the Fediverse.

I mean Pirate Bay is still running lol, so yeah I think decentralization works

It doesn’t matter, though. They all have the same choice to make: comply, shut down in that territory… or be fined an insane amount.

Those are not the only choices… not everyone can/will be fined (example: Pirate Bay)

Why are we focusing on mastodon.social? I’m not even a fan of mastodon.social. I’m not really interested in their original discussion either. Honestly I kinda hope mastodon.social does comply or lock users out so that users spread out more to other instances instead. But they aren’t even close to the majority of the Fediverse anyways.

There are plenty of instances hosted in different countries that won’t care about this law, or you can self host.

You do know that Eugen developed the Mastodon software, right? He’s not advocating for mastodon.social, he’s advocating for Mastodon.

I’m just talking about the Fediverse. Sure ATProto can theoretically avoid this too but they don’t have as many choices for instances, if any at all that are outside the US and federated with Bluesky? And it seems like self hosting is much harder.

Well even if mastodon.social complies, there are many many other instances to choose from, from all different countries

and even other similar platforms like Sharkey or Mbin that work with Mastodon

it must’ve been a big instance going offline (or switching platforms? or blocking the stats collection?)

also note a lot of those graphs don’t start at 0, the Y axis is zoomed

yes, probably from fediverse.observer itself going offline

Here’s a link https://app.wafrn.net/

Pretty cool. I won’t get too excited until Bluesky (the company) is less than 90% of ATProto. Even mastodon.social is only like 27% of AP.

I’d be afraid of one company having too much power over the whole network.

Yeah they post a lot of shit. We have too few commenters/voters spread across too many posts, which is a real great way to kill a community. We need the opposite, we already have enough posts, we need more people commenting/voting.

A huge thing that real posts have but bot posts do not have: comments notify the OP and thus have a good chance of getting a response. The bot communities almost never get comments, and even if they do it’s extra rare for them to get a reply.

If I didn’t care about human-to-human comments then I wouldn’t be here or on Reddit, I would just use RSS feeds, or the Google news feed.

well we still have Dexter Resurrection, I didn’t expect them to keep running 2 different Dexter shows at the same time

People always complain about this but Lemmy does actually combine crossposts in your feed. What frontend are you using? Or maybe it’s just bugged? If someone can figure out the bug and how to reproduce it, it needs to be submitted to GitHub.

Here’s a reference to the feature, a fixed bug, disabling the deduplication for a single community view https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/2104#issuecomment-2316048658