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.

• 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.

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.

That’s why Misskey is desperately need English contributor.

It’s always hard for FOSS software when its main community is non-English got forked and international community doesn’t help them.

What’s wrong with Misskey? Misskey is well supported, even have proper funding from booth communities and various company.

There are several Misskey apps that works properly, even with Misskey-flavored Markdown support, like Miria and Aria (Miria fork).

Sharkey also has MFM support, so Miria/Aria as main client is better.

Hashtags doesn’t have universal thing.

For example, hashtag for #red can mean anything, from a mere color to political association.

Twitter trending tag often filled with two trending topic that shares same hashtag hut nothing do to with each other. Especially for same langauge but different region like English America vs English Asia.

At least, a compability with Misskey groups would be great.

So far, Misskey has varied groups that actually active that feels like close friend groups on Facebook.

Striping all algorithm, ads, and any other harmful system, social media is simply a way to keep track and update hundreds of people and relation that you know.

You can use it as a tool, without being addicted or dependant on it.

Misskey should have more active users, even more than Pixelfed right now. Almost all Japanese fediverse users are on Misskey instances.

A lot of post in Misskey instance are often followers only. I know several instance that the admin say they have thousands of users but simply not reporting any MAU users for certain reason. Even the one that report them are usually lower than actual MAU due to “offline mode”

Some people on Mastodon or other microblogging fediverse basically using their account for image only gallery.

It definitely nice to see Misskey.design or Mastoart.social post on Pixelfed.

They don’t have proper “trending” page, that’s why it seems barren.

At least on Pixelfed.social, there are a lot of active photographers, both casuals and professional posting their work there.

And also classic Facebook Social Games , Discord reaction, Facebook Groups, Facebook Photo Gallery, and some Japanese social media clone (that I forgot its name)

Trending section often unusable and basically only rewards the majority (a.k.a Western fediverse).

If you host instance for non-English language for local communities, trending will quickly populated with Western/US-centric conversation and news.