Akkoma only has two instances and they are both down

That’s because Akkoma’s official website is silly and only recommends two random small instances with no promises on reliability and stuff. Like, Mastodon at least asks their recommended instances to have at least 3 people responsible for their server.

But, aside from that glaring flaw, I absolutely adore Akkoma and it’s my favorite window to the microblogging fedi. If you want to check it out, I can recommend void.lgbt and fedi.absturztau.be - I used the former in the past and I got an account on the latter recently.

Sharkey is a Misskey fork and there don’t seem to be any instances.

There are plenty of Sharkey instances and another person already shared a link with them. blahaj.zone is one you might find familiar because it’s run by the same people who run lemmy.blahaj.zone. There is a notable detail about sharkey instances though - it seems like most of them are very queer-focused. This is quite different from Mastodon and Lemmy.

To top it off, they all require approval. That is one of my biggest pet peeves with “public” software: requiring a login to even evaluate it.

Fortunately, Sharkey instances let you check out the local feed without logging-in. I think some instances hide it though.

Wafrn looks kinda interesting. It does require clicking to see every layer of responses and the entire thread isn’t shown like in lemmy, but maybe that’s configurable.

Wafrn has its’ strangeness because it’s a Tumblr-like, not a Twitter-like. I respect that but a lot of tumblr-isms are a bit annoying. Like, maybe don’t lump responses and boosts together so I know how many actual responses this post had?

Most Masto-compatible software that’s not Mastodon itself (e.g. Akkoma, Sharkey, Wafrn) support threaded conversations so if you want to be in that part of the Fediverse you can try one of them out.

@onlinepersona@programming.dev

Some instances use allowlist meaning other servers are defederated unless added to the list. Hexbear is the only major instance that uses this model, to my knowledge.

Sorry for speaking out against transphobes in a not-wholesome way. It will happen again.

You can create an account on a more populated instance, become mutuals with your sibling’s wafrn account and then boost stuff for them.

Good but then do not bother people with your “bigot is a meaningless word nowadays” when you say such hateful shit. That’s just pathetic.

Said dude who wrote this shit:

And it is at least partly because of a radical overreach in policy demands over the last decade by the “T” in LGBT. It has generated an inevitable backlash that is now hurting the other letters in the soup, of which I am one.

Maybe it’s you who are the problem, at least sometimes?

Counterargument: I don’t want to engage in good faith with a bigot.

"Here’s the list of problems with genAI: unethical training, data centers are bad for environment, horrible corpos behind the thing, potential copyright issues.

What is my position on LLMs, you might ask. I love it and I pay for subscription of one of the shit corpos!!!"

One of the most braindead takes on LLMs I’ve heard in awhile.

But I am not getting much visibility.

I’m afraid that’s just how it is. Tags aren’t very popular among Mastodon users in my experience so they don’t help much either (but I still recommend adding some tags). Literally the only thing that helped my posts getting seen is a boost from some popular Masto person.

You forgot “perchance”! The worst crime of Lemmy…

You don’t. Instead, you recommend a specific community/instance that they’d like to participate in. And if Fediverse doesn’t have such a community your friend wouldn’t stick with it anyway.

For most people the advantages of federation doesn’t matter at all. What matters is their ability to connect with their fellow human beings on topics they care about.

Which version did this happen in?

2.3.0, according to their new website, though I found out about it at a much later version.

The latest pre-libadwaita version of Gajim is 2.2.0, I don’t think there were any problems with that version.

It also locks up whenever we try dragging a picture into the chat window to send.

I remember that Gajim installed from Flatpak wouldn’t allow drag’n’drop functionality at all.

Whaat, that can happen??

Before the June update Gajim wasn’t related to GNOME at all and worked perfectly fine on my Xfce desktop. The update fully switched to GTK4 + libadwaita, and they also redesigned their website to look exactly like GNOME’s.

I suppose they changed their design direction…

Yeah that’s exactly it.

Gtk3 is considered legacy now

Cinnamon and Xfce still exist though. It’s not like gtk3 is suddenly out of use.

I’ll look into Movim, thanks!

I don’t, they are free to change their software any way they want to, and I’m free to not like the changes they’ve made.

There aren’t really any good clients for XMPP unfortunately. I’m just moving away to Matrix (ironically the one I avoided because it didn’t have good clients when I looked into IMs).