User activity graphs is one of these really cool little Misskey/Sharkey features that made me want to put together this series of posts. When I first saw this, I knew it was worth sharing - I have not seen this super useful feature elsewhere.
Have a look at the graphs attached to this post. It's pretty easy to get an idea of what the person's posting history looks like, and whether or not they are mostly reposting things, replying to people, posting their own words, or even posting with attachments (pictures, etc.). (In the UI you can click on "File", "Renote", etc. at the bottom of the graph to remove/add those portions of the graph.)
One of the users, for me, could possibly be too noisy for my timeline in general, although that user does actually engage with others, which helps with my assessing 'suitability' for me. Since I have a couple of soft word filters set up to help cut back on what I would consider noise that I don't want to see in my timeline, I can still engage with the user on some topics and handle the frequency of their posting.
The next user is not a big news repeater and appears to be only interested in engagement, which fits in my timeline pretty easily.
The last user is quite quiet, and appears to only be posting their own words. Easy to have them added in.
It's so nice to have this data so accessible as it's helpful to know more about what to expect when adding an account to your timeline. You may want to do further checking in to the user to see if you'd instead prefer to follow hashtags they use, or add them to a llist or antenna instead (special ways of creating alternate timelines/feeds in Sharkey).
Come see for yourself! Our instance at humanwords.cc is open for new registrations, and a list of Sharkey instances can be found at sharkey.fediverse.observer/lis…
This post is part of a series of Sharkey posts I'm doing. The introduction and index post of these "Sharkey is awesome" posts is at: humanwords.cc/notes/a4k2kap4hb…
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This is a fun general-purpose fediverse instance running Sharkey. We're slowly building things up and here and will be allowing sign-ups in small batches along the way. Sign-ups are enabled presently!
Human Words
Hi all!In the past little while, I've been spending a lot of time with Sharkey, a fediverse microblogging platform similar-ish to (and compatible with via activitypub) Mastodon, Akkoma, and the like. I've spent several years in the fediverse, having a fair bit of experience with Akkoma, Pleroma, Friendica, Mastodon, Peertube and others.
Sharkey has easily been the most comfortable, attractive, and useful microblogging platform I've used in the Fediverse, and I thought it would be nice to post a few things about what makes it so special.
I plan on creating several posts in the near future touching on a specific aspect of Sharkey that I believe is worth attention (some of the items may not be completely specific to Sharkey, as it's based on and enhances Misskey). I hope you'll find the posts interesting and that maybe it will encourage some to spread the word a bit, ask questions, or try out a Sharkey instance.
Feel free to bookmark/save this post - I will be updating with links to the follow-up posts as I go along. Of course, if you're following me, they should come up in your timeline like anything else.
If you wish to check out a list of Sharkey instances (I can't speak to how many might have open registrations at any given moment), you can see a list here:
sharkey.fediverse.observer/lis…
(humanwords.cc is a Sharkey instance currently allowing registrations, btw ... Also, you'll notice all the Sharkey instances on fediverse.observer have 0 active users aside from humanwords.cc - Misskey ripped active user info out, which I believe was a mistake)
Last, but not least, I hope there will be questions, comments, feedback - the posts aren't intended to be one-way blathering in to the fedisphere.
Post #1 - Onboarding - humanwords.cc/notes/a4k4pgglhb…
Post #2 - Importing Posts (as part of a migration, probably) - humanwords.cc/notes/a4mt5oinhb…
Post #3 - User discoverability #1 - Activity graphs - humanwords.cc/notes/a4r3h8h87l…
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