does this mean that the option to receive text posts no longer exists OR is this option now the default setting?

Sharkey is also for microblogging but it also has some extra features, including user sites that can be used as a kind of blog and it “can play module / tracker music files - can play Flash (swf) - (federated) listenbrainz integration, …”

I haven’t tried these functions yet

Cryptpad Forms or Framaforms are good for simple surveys. For more complex surveys there is Limesurvey.

Thanks for the great concept! It would be really important to develop something like this.

“The differences between Fediverse platforms (Mastodon, Lemmy, Pixelfed, etc.)”

It would make things a lot easier if you were supported in advance in deciding which platform / software is best suited. At the moment, many people don’t even realise that they have a choice and they often start with Mastodon because that’s all they know. For some, it does fit, but many are not actually looking for a Twitter clone and not just microblogging and are then disappointed or confused.

I had once made drafts for a kind of “FediChooser” (alluding to Distrochooser), which, after answering a few questions about needs, expectations, experiences, gives one or more recommendations which platform would subjectively fit best for you.

Pinetta is under development: “A FOSS, federated, ActivityPub-enabled pinboard thingy, in the style of Pinterest.”. I don’t know anything else about it, but only discovered it on this list: delightful fediverse apps (“A curated list of server applications with support for the ActivityPub protocol (known as the fediverse) and related standards.”)

That is probably the default setting. However, you can also set Pixelfed to display posts without an image. I don’t know where exactly, but Pixelfed users wrote this because it has been asked about it several times.

Maybe it works the same way with Pixelfed as it does between Mastodon etc. and Lemmy? 🚀 A little guide on how to communicate with Lemmy from Mastodon Friendica Hubzilla Sharkey etc..

I have not yet been able to test it with Pixelfed because I don’t have an account.

Yes, I also find that another problem with Mastodon, that they display posts from other software so poorly or incompletely (e.g. with Peertube not the video description, not all images etc.). And I share your view of the desire for dominance in the Fediverse and there have been corresponding conflicts between developers in the past. One point of conflict a few years ago was that the Mastodon dev didn’t want group functions, so Mastodon can’t create groups.

But I still don’t quite understand what you mean by the problem “do not appear in an orderly manner”? What does that have to do with groups?

But if you click on an OP on Mastodon (whether from Lemmy or wherever) , there is already a thread view that is quite ok and shows the structure and progress chronologically.

You may have to click twice in Mastodon because you can’t see in the timeline whether a post is an OP or a reply to it.

"mastodon users can overcome the serious problem of not being able to view Lemmy communities in an orderly "

This is generally the way Mastodon displays posts, that they do not appear in an orderly manner. Mastodon does this with all posts, No matter whether they come from Lemmy or Friendica, Akkoma or Mastodon. This has nothing to do with Lemmy. Posts/replies in Mastodon always appear individually and without context in the timeline. In the timeline, the latest posts/replies (Mastodon does not differentiate between them) always appear at the top, then many other individual posts, then at some point the question about the reply from above and so on. (I personally find that very confusing, but this is probably the common microblogging style and one of several reasons why I also prefer Friendica over Mastodon, because Friendica has a very good thread view, which I miss in Mastodon)

… but thank you very much for the tip that Racoon also works well with Mastodon. A very good tip for Mastodon users! 👍