Some people actually do, especially for people from similar music fandom.
I use Last.fm for more than decade and its nice to find fellow friend that have incredibly same niche music taste.
In a way, it’s the same as peopel sharing books collection on Goodreads or tracking movie list on Letterboxd.
I agree with top comment.
I’m Indonesian. Most of trending fediverse are Western related topics which It’s not relevant to me.
There’s one time when I randomly post about my country politics, and people on Mastodon just assume or comment using Western mindset.
Other than this Lemmy account, I mostly stick with hobby-related fediverse that mostly East Asian and Southeast Asian people (mostly Misskey instance)
Also, Indonesian is currently the highest user on Twitter, recently bypassed Brazil. People still use it as our local feed is… well localized. No Western-related discussion and much more comfy.
Quote post can be useful if implemented with more control, not just copying existing Twitter quote.
I recall the dev want to let user disable quote on individual post.
Graphite.rs is node-based.
It’s entirely different workflow.
There’s new contender in FOSS music player scene: Fooyin
Fooyin is Foobar2000-like music player that currently hevily in development, it probably less than one year, but it has so many advance feature that even establish music player doesn’t have.
I wonder if people that JavaScript is indirectly named from an ethnic group in Indonesia.
Javanese ethnic -> Java Island -> Javanese coffee -> Java programming language -> JavaScript
AlternativeTo is crowdsource, so one individual might find software A as suitable alternative, while others are not.
The same way that some people find GIMP enough to replace Photoshop, while others prefer Affinity Photo, Paint.NET, or Photopea.
I personally find so many cool underrated FOSS software, such as Inochi2D, AB Download Manager, Miria, OpenUTAU, Our Paint, Mihon, and Wick Editor.
Yep! There are so also many niche applications people never heard.
I regularly checking it for any FOSS alternative to any closed-source software. For example: Inochi2D, AB Download Manager, Miria, OpenUTAU, Our Paint, and Wick Editor.
One common problem for fediverse is that most of them are Western-oriented, hard to find people with similar interest and common topics.
Lemmy so far is replicating Reddit, which is tend to one-size-fit-all community. Gaming community? c/gaming is de-facto. Linux community? c/Linux is de-facto. And so on. Sure there are other server, but the one with most active community wins.
I usually use Facebook Groups with hundreds of thousands of people. It’s nice to see groups of really small niche, like “local fried chicken seller,” “temple research South East Asia,” or “Singapore-only comic collector”, etc.
There are plenty groups with similar topic, but entirely different culture. For example general gaming group:
Another example, healthy food groups.
All these communities might be same, but the entire vibe are different. One might more welcoming, other are full or rough jokes, some are okay with multilanguge post (not English only community).
Unless fediverse is able to replicate this, I don’t think it will reach full mainstream, especailly for people in Africa, Middle East, or Asia.
Edit: I also want to see Misskey Channel interoperability, as it has the closest vibe so far with Facebook Groups.
Oh, being annoying to casual user makes them anti to whatever we promote.
The keyword is being moderate and helpful. Not forceful or annoying.
Misskey, which is Japanese-made ActivityPub-enabled social media software, has option to enable ads natively for instance admin.
In most cases, the ads are just non-tracking community ads, like promoting YouTube channel, indie animation, pop-up cafe event, or server hosting service. Usually the ads are matched to instance theme.
People realize that running instances needs money and letting the instance admin to make living from it is acceptable. Having monthly patron oftentimes not enough.
This is different case and country. There are plenty of dead fedi instance from Southeast Asia because the donation itself is not enough as the culture of donation is not the same as Western countries. Most people will just simply use free social media and thinking ads are good tradeoff.
It’s just your average cultural clash.
Most people on internet are accustomed with English naming culture. Meanwhile when people from non-Western (mostly US) making name that seems cool in their culture, it often lead to cultural clash. This also applies to symbol, gesture, etc.
You would be surprised that numbers of FOSS project from East Asia not having updated information/license/documentation in English.
Especially Japanese one, it’s one of the hardest language that even if people had a middle level certification like JLPT N3, they might still not be able to translate formal document properly.
On other hand, FOSS project from Southeast Asia or South Asia always keeps their English documentation/license/info up to date.
That’s Western fediverse.
Fediverse instance in Asia often run ads or other kind of monetisation. Like the second biggest instance.
Unfortunately Warmux is now a dead project, with official site taken over by unrelated company and only unofficial Flathub distribution exist.
Even Windows built and other OS is gone.
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Japan has so many unique store that operated in their country with region-locked apps/games.
As far as I remember, even DMM and DLsite already has their own game store on Android.
This is truly a win for Japanese customer and company.
Which F-Droid client is that?
Vintage Story
Basically MInecraft for grown ups, also Native Linux available.
It also the only FOSS YT-based music player that actually support ruby text lyrics for Japanese.