That’s kind of a trend on the Fediverse to be honest. Mastodon has the same problem with their chronological-only feed.

Pudge you say? Colour me intrigued GG.

Mastodon users can subscribe to Lemmy communities I think, but it doesn’t really work very well. The Mastodon feed isn’t really made to support threaded content so all the Lemmy comments will fill and mess up your feed.

Huh. Haven’t seen a 70+ minute epic in a while.

Imagine giving ATF Timbersaw in the year of the lord 2025.

Spirit are just also extremely good at abusing a vision advantage, always have been. Good old times of Miposhka Treant etc.

My very first game of Dota like 20 odd years ago I was introduced to it by a friend’s older brother who played it and said this was the greatest WC3 custom map. We played him 1v3 and he proceeded to pick Nightstalker and absolutely violated us for half an hour into a solo win.

Good to see that an unchecked Nightstalker is still a menace all these years later.

Not quite a shellacking, but very dominant by Spirit so far.

Thanks for the heads up, I might try to catch Falcons vs Spirit later!

Mastodon and Lemmy have only limited interoperability. You can’t follow individual users on Lemmy, so most of it is one-way. Mastodon users can post to Lemmy communities by @-ing a specific community, and Lemmy users can then reply as normal and their replies will show up in the Mastodon users feed.

In general I think that backlash against algorithms went the wrong way. We poured the baby with the water.

I agree. As long as the microblogging side of the Fediverse has only a chronological feed I can’t see myself engaging with it. Mastodon just demands way too much work from the user for what the payoff is, at least to me.

I think mapping existing subreddits to Fediverse equivalents is a great idea and would be very helpful to have as a resource. Sub.Rehab did something to that nature, although I don’t think it’s being maintained anymore sadly.

However there’s a catch to posting to lemmy communities. It’s broken right now if there’s also a user with the same name as a community.

I’ve heard about this before and it sounds highly unfortunate. As I understand it there is no simple fix either.

I’m following it as well! Still waiting on some features for it to be my daily driver, but I love how responsive and active the dev seems to be.

I’ll keep an eye on it, thanks! I was looking at Thunder the other day actually since Sync is probably going to stop working eventually. Sadly I found it a little buggy and lacking some features, but I’ll follow its development for sure.

Piefed keeps leading the charge eh? With every new feature added I wish even more that there was a mobile app for it. Well, that or Lemmy devs taking some inspiration and implementing something similar, I guess.

Yeah it’s got that old forum type feel still.

Alternative question - for those that don’t believe this is an issue, when is the last time you came across a post on Lemmy that is specifically for/about women or women’s issues (especially one posted from a woman’s perspective)? Or even better, go ahead and make such a post. Watch how fast the downvotes come.

I’m not going to say it isn’t a problem, but this was just the other day and while engagement could have been better it didn’t seem to be met with downvotes and pushback.

There is no algorithm at all as far as I know, for better or worse. The closest is the “Scaled” sorting option, which takes community size into account to help boost smaller communities. But I’d hardly call that an algorithm, even though it technically is.

There is no point in farming upvotes here apart from feeding your brain’s dopamine response.

I agree, though you’ll probably get a lot of pushback on that from Fediverse enthusiasts since it goes against the idea of the decentralised concept and we should “distribute the users more evenly among instances”. At least that was the way discussion went on this topic back in 2023.

For the moment I feel like lemm.ee is a fairly solid “default” to recommend, though. Few defederations and great admins, very stable amd large enough to have a populated /all but not the massive behemoth that is .world (which I do agree has gotten too large).