Threads was because if you had an Instagram account it ported over.

Bluesky was the Twitter clone made by the old Twitter CEO.

Most people didn’t have a problem with Twitter being a corporation, they had a problem with the new owner of the corporation making the experience terrible with his new changes.

It doesn’t need to take down reddit. I’d like to see Lemmy at 1 million active users though. Just need enough critical mass to be able to branch into more smaller sublemmys which draws in the fans of those subs specifically and creates better curated content.

Liftoff stopped working for Lemm.ee for me but not Lemmy.world so it must have been upgrade related. I couldn’t figure out how to fix it so I’m just switching to Connect, ha.

So every month is higher than the month 6 months prior, that seems pretty good. Obviously won’t be true 6 months after that July but certainly speaks to the community that has grown here and remained here.

At first I thought this was about the Pebble smart watch from 2012. Pretty confused how that becomes a Mastadon instance.

Does anyone remember a webcomic from like 10-20 years ago where the main character was a ghost and the author was like depressed? I think there was a controversy where she made merch and people paid her but she got overwhelmed and burned it all or something?

Edit: it was Pictures for Sad Children

I think I like it but for the idiots like me, the plan is to have “groups” around the fediverse that equate to sublemmys, and Mastodon users can post with them or not, but if they do it essentially creates a sublemmy that Lemmy users can also interact with.

And on Mastodon the benefit would be that you could subscribe to topics instead of users?

Haha as a guy who definitely believed open source was the political force gathering steam to replace George W Bush back in the day…no.

Seems like it must be possible. No idea how to do it.

Nostr is most similar to what, Facebook? “Notes and other stuff” sounds like Facebook.

I don’t know that one-way solves the problem…you could “Absorb content” with an overzealous user or a bot. It wouldn’t subscribe the .world and .ml users to the same community.

Ideally you want someone to be able to subscribe to !technology@all or something.

Gotta say I like merged communities better than just multireddits. The problem we’re trying to solve is that one community of 1000 people is more than 10x better than 10 communities with 100 people, because instead of a bunch of posts or comments with less than 5 upvotes you get true content curation.

Would have to be voluntary and maybe there could be two levels, one where mods can only mod what is “truly” posted to their instance, and another where any mod can moderate anything in the combined community.

Peertube is based on ActivityPub…so can I subscribe to a Peertube channel via Lemmy?

I abandoned lemmy.world for lemm.ee and I gotta say it is way better. No idea how to migrate though.

Not that I want crypto bros in on this, nor do I really think avoiding the police should even be a goal of Lemmy, but is it possibly to build a fully decentralized Lemmy executing via blockchain or is that gibberish?

Kind of lucky the Fediverse version of Reddit worked out as the main alternative while Mastodon and Bluesky duked it out and then Threads came out of nowhere.

Also IMO the Lemmy apps are better than Mastodon… I admit I was one of the people who got too confused to get on Mastodon but I figured out Lemmy just fine.