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[-] [email protected] 139 points 11 months ago

The great thing is that if a lot of people like Mastodon they can use it and if you don't like it you can use something differenent and you will still be able to communicate. That's the whole point.

[-] [email protected] 37 points 11 months ago

noo the nerds need to have a superiority complex online because they can't prove anything in real life

[-] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

You don't understand: it is not good if something is popular. Then there are people outside my bubble and they ruin it.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

As a nerd that doesn't gatekeep and can prove something in real life, hey ๐Ÿ˜•

[-] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

im using lemmy i feel like there's a flat level of nerd required to even make it this far into internet

but i am becoming a calisthenics nerd now highly recommend my interests are very plastic

[-] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago

Let's go web standards!

[-] [email protected] 122 points 11 months ago

We gatekeeping liking the Fediverse now?

[-] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Kinda goes against the entire ethos

[-] [email protected] 65 points 11 months ago

Gatekeeping the Fediverse? Cringe

[-] [email protected] 35 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

To be honest, I think the best way to get Lemmy to grow in the near term will probably be getting more people to use both Mastodon and Lemmy, rather then hoping more people will shake away from reddit. I'm active on Lemmy but probably use mastodon more.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Ironically I'm the inverse. I spent some time on Mastodon, but I'm more into the Reddit/Lemmy format.

What I'd really like to see is the ActivityPub API being used to it's best ability. Theoretically, if it were better implemented on both Mastodon, Lemmy and other ActivityPub fediverse infrastructure, We could be able to see Mastodon posts on Lemmy instances as though they were always a Lemmy post, and vice versa.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Not so sure about this one, think part of what was good about Reddit/twitter/Tumblr/whatever is that they all kept a unique identity that catered to different tastes in content

If we just merge everything into one we lose that

[-] [email protected] 29 points 11 months ago
[-] [email protected] 32 points 11 months ago

OP is gatekeeping

[-] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago

People who say they love the fediverse are usually talking about Mastodon, not Lemmy.

[-] [email protected] 22 points 11 months ago

People who say they love the fediverse are usually talking about.... the fediverse?

Thanks I get it now but also I get how dumb this meme is

[-] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Maybe. Or, like most users, they are aware that "fediverse" refers to the ActivityPub network as a whole, as well as adjacent networks such as matrix and diaspora.

When I say fediverse, I don't mean Lemmy. If I want to refer to the part of the fediverse we are using, Lemmy/Kbin, I say threadiverse. It's just one corner of the network.

I have no interest in the twitter format for social media, but people who do and enjoy mastodon, have just as much right to be excited about federation and what it can do for social media.

What I don't understand, is why make this meme? Neither Lemmy nor Mastodon, is "the fediverse". Only together, do they become a "universe" of federated instances, and even disparate platforms, which yet interoperate.

A Mastodon user who says they love the fediverse, likely loves it for the same reasons a Lemmy, Kbin, Friendica, Pixelfed, or MissKey user does. Where's the joke?

[-] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago
[-] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It's a shame how often people forget us. Though could be a good thing given how much drama there is in some parts of Lemmy

[-] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Kbin's federation has been hit or miss a lot. It's not that we forget you, a lot of the time, you don't show up.

That will hopefully improve as Kbin matures.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

To be fair, the isolation stuff was mostly at the beginning when the exodus started, but I couldn't blame people for leaving when that started. Some people just want to be where everyone is.

I can't say I've experienced much issue with federation since the early times, but then again I wouldn't know what it looks like on the Lemmy side.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I'm not referring to the intentional disabling of federation, but that kbin has had technical issues even after that which has made federation to and from lemmy instances intermittent.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I was on kbin when I first ditched Reddit, but boost coming out for Lemmy got me to switch. The mobile site for kbin is ok but nothing compared to a mostly fleshed out app. Also, like the other guy said the federation wasn't always there.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Personally I like the interface for Kbin. It has many of the features you want in modern forums, but retains a look reminiscent of older style forums. Though I can see it wouldn't be for everyone.

Ah, the great isolation. Was a funny time everyone wondering why they could only see Kbin content haha

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I doesn't matter which platform is a users point of contact. I don't think a lot of users miss the point that "fediverse" refers to all the platforms their platforms communicate with, together. Not just their platform.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

Yes, that is exactly the point.

Most people only think it is mastodon, but it's all of them.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I mean it's the most successful federated platform so just by numbers of course more people are going to talk about it.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago

Man, I love the Fediverse. (only Lemmy)

[-] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

Isn't mastodon apart of the Fediverse?

[-] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago

It is a part of the Fediverse. 'Apart' is the opposite of 'a part'.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Autocorrect makes it apart regardless, so I guess my phone decides what I say

[-] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago

REAL men turn autocorrect off. Do not let your phone make spellling mistakes, instead, make them on your own.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I'm embarrassed to say that it never occurred to me that I could turn it off! Now that it's off I wonder if anyting changes. It seems like it's wrong more often than it's right, but that could jus be confirmation bias.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Shall we not start this whole thing again, it's like the X isn't really Linux debate all over again

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