Let me know if this is appropriate for this community.

I’ve been collecting links to post, blog, article, comment, etc that criticize the fediverse, whether it’s about the specific apps or fediverse in general, whether it’s about the technical aspect or about the social aspect.

If you also found one, feel free to share it here.

(date format is YYYY-MM-DD)

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2023

  • Blaze (he/him)
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    11 days ago

    If SEO index is based on user count, can’t websites just create thousands of fake users to boost their index?

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      11 days ago

      search engines are giant algorithms that I don’t think anybody truly gets, but it does rule out bots. The popularity of the website and how often people click on it are taken into account, and the problem is that the fediverse is split into hundreds of domains. It doesn’t help that the content is the exact same across instances so fedi websites could just be marked as spam.

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        11 days ago

        hundreds of domains

        https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy

        Filter by monthly active users, when you reach the 31st most active instance you are already at 187 users. 41st is 102 users. 51st is 34 users.

        Most of the 44k monthly active users are on the top 20, so it’s more around 20-50 domains than hundreds.

        fedi websites could just be marked as spam.

        That could definitely be