We're one week into 2024, do you know what that means? Time to clean up your #SNS “following” especially here in the #Fediverse.
Check the “dormant” accounts if you can unfollow them.
Check which accounts “moved”. Follow their new account, then unfollow their old account.
And maybe there are other accounts that you haven't interacted with in the past few months; and their content is no longer something that you are interested, you can unfollow them too.
If you still want to see their content, you can encourage them to use #hashtags and you follow those hashtags. Or, join a federated “group” like those powered by #Mbin#Kbin#Friendica#Chirp and #Lemmy.
Of course, depending on the fediverse platform your instance is using, there are probably better features to the content of users without seeing their content that is not of interest to you. A good example, #Firefish / #Catodon / #IceShrimp can do that through the “Antenna” feature.
Take some time to do this, and start your 2024 fediverse better than 2023.
I guess now we know the small reach of #Guppe groups is indeed a Guppe #bug or #WAI (working-as-intended).
I've noticed this since last year, after Guppe went down for almost a month(?); but I thought it was just me, or a temporary scaling issue with Guppe. But there's no denying it anymore, Guppe's reach is now very limited.
If similar software / platforms work fine (like #Friendica forums, #Chirp groups, #Kbin magazine, and #Lemmy communities) then the logical conclusion is this issue is on the side of Guppe groups.
Major communities still using Guppe groups should consider moving to Chirp, Friendica, Kbin, or Lemmy, if they want to reach #Fediverse network, until this is fixed.
@007 Ahh, really? During the early days of #Guppe it was working fine for any #Fediverse platform. I'm not sure when it stopped.
It wouldn't be a stretched that it stopped working for the entire Fediverse, except Mastodon, after it went online for almost a month(?). So, that means they intentionally blocked everyone else?
I guess #Chirp, #Kbin, and #Lemmy are the best options now. What's the point of using Guppe groups if it cannot reach the entire Fediverse.
@retrobeetism I have a similar experience. #Guppe groups (at least after it went offline for almost a month(?)) rarely works all other #Fediverse platforms (those I've tried). But #Chirp groups, #Friendica forums, #Kbin magazine, and #Lemmy communities, there are rarely any problems.
My brain tells me that the issue is with Guppe platform, since all other similar software works fine. They did something to break interoperability with the rest of the Fediverse, and created its own bubble with Mastodon.
You can follow the Kbin Magazine ‘test’ by searching and following: @test. You can also post into it by tagging it.
If you are already familiar with #Chirp and #Guppe groups, it works similarly. Follow it to get content, tag it to post content and share with everyone following the “group”/“community”/“magazine”.
Calling the situation as fragmented or duplicate is unfair for these existing groups/communities/magazines (whichever word you want to use), because they were here first and already well-established.
Putting all your eggs in one basket is a recipe for disaster. We already experienced that when Guppe went offline for almost a week, and almost permanently shutdown if the financial goal was not met. And that's just one example, for years we've witnessed instances disappearing or shutting down completely, just like that, communities were destroyed.
The lesson we should've learned by now is this: redundancy of communities/groups/magazines spread through out the fediverse through different instances is vital for the continuation of discussions. If one instance goes down, there are other existing communities/groups already in other instances. We can minimise the disruption that such a situation can cause. This is important for those users who rely on groups for content, instead of following every single user.
Instead of looking at it as fragmentation, which is very negative in this context, look at it as redundancy and continuation. There are a lot of ways for the free instance you are using, or hosting yourself, to suddenly disappear.