A month ago there was a lot of buzz on the Fediverse about a new Mastodon server set up by prominent journalists: #TheForkiverse.
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@_elena@mastodon.social exactly there seems to be a lot of vibecoding stuff going on there
@Stomata if you listen to the podcast announcing this experiment, they used LLMs to get advice about how to actually set up a Mastodon server... so I'm not surprised
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Thats so great to hear!
I'd love to learn more about it too.
You mentioned that nearly 10,000 users joined in a couple of weeks thats amazing!
Were they all journalists, or was it a mix of journalists and people from the Fediverse who wanted to be part of a community started by them?Im really curious how it's grown since then.
Thanks for doing your part to make them feel welcome!

@abbas_dp it's all regular people who love the Hard Fork podcast (by Kevin and Casey) and PJ's Search Engine.
Stats aren't entire accurate, but here they are: https://fedidb.com/servers/theforkiverse.com
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@Stomata if you listen to the podcast announcing this experiment, they used LLMs to get advice about how to actually set up a Mastodon server... so I'm not surprised
@_elena@mastodon.social yeah I listened to that search engine episode, also hard fork podcast does talk a lot about vibecoding, they kind of had a episode on it just before spinning up the instance
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A month ago there was a lot of buzz on the Fediverse about a new Mastodon server set up by prominent journalists: #TheForkiverse.
There was a rush of sign-ups: nearly 10,000 users in a couple of weeks. People new to the Fediverse, willing to try it out.
It's been hard to gauge how active it still is... so this morning I re-downloaded @IceCubesApp so I could browse their local timeline.
I've been liking and replying to recent posts. Just doing my little in making them feel seen and welcome

@_elena @IceCubesApp As my first real home in the Fediverse I've found it pretty great. Shared love of podcasts makes it easy to start conversations

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@_elena @IceCubesApp As my first real home in the Fediverse I've found it pretty great. Shared love of podcasts makes it easy to start conversations

@jonassmith it's wonderful to hear

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@Stomata if you listen to the podcast announcing this experiment, they used LLMs to get advice about how to actually set up a Mastodon server... so I'm not surprised
@_elena some men would rather boil the oceans than read a README I guess
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A month ago there was a lot of buzz on the Fediverse about a new Mastodon server set up by prominent journalists: #TheForkiverse.
There was a rush of sign-ups: nearly 10,000 users in a couple of weeks. People new to the Fediverse, willing to try it out.
It's been hard to gauge how active it still is... so this morning I re-downloaded @IceCubesApp so I could browse their local timeline.
I've been liking and replying to recent posts. Just doing my little in making them feel seen and welcome

@_elena so.. whatโs the server? Xd
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@_elena so.. whatโs the server? Xd
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@_elena thank you

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A month ago there was a lot of buzz on the Fediverse about a new Mastodon server set up by prominent journalists: #TheForkiverse.
There was a rush of sign-ups: nearly 10,000 users in a couple of weeks. People new to the Fediverse, willing to try it out.
It's been hard to gauge how active it still is... so this morning I re-downloaded @IceCubesApp so I could browse their local timeline.
I've been liking and replying to recent posts. Just doing my little in making them feel seen and welcome

@_elena @IceCubesApp Wait. I can browse and interact local timeline of other servers? ๐คฏ
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@_elena @IceCubesApp Wait. I can browse and interact local timeline of other servers? ๐คฏ
@jannik YES!!! @IceCubesApp and apparently Moshidon allow that. It's AMAZING
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@jannik YES!!! @IceCubesApp and apparently Moshidon allow that. It's AMAZING
@_elena I've been trying to do this on Moshidon and while I do believe it can do this, I can't find out how

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A month ago there was a lot of buzz on the Fediverse about a new Mastodon server set up by prominent journalists: #TheForkiverse.
There was a rush of sign-ups: nearly 10,000 users in a couple of weeks. People new to the Fediverse, willing to try it out.
It's been hard to gauge how active it still is... so this morning I re-downloaded @IceCubesApp so I could browse their local timeline.
I've been liking and replying to recent posts. Just doing my little in making them feel seen and welcome

@_elena I'd never heard of this. Interesting!
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A month ago there was a lot of buzz on the Fediverse about a new Mastodon server set up by prominent journalists: #TheForkiverse.
There was a rush of sign-ups: nearly 10,000 users in a couple of weeks. People new to the Fediverse, willing to try it out.
It's been hard to gauge how active it still is... so this morning I re-downloaded @IceCubesApp so I could browse their local timeline.
I've been liking and replying to recent posts. Just doing my little in making them feel seen and welcome

@_elena @IceCubesApp I never really understood how mastodon etc worked or what they were for until the forkiverse happened.
It feels like ive finally found โmyโ social media.
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