blue_berry @lemmy.world Coder, Artist, Blogger (https://fungiverse.wordpress.com/, https://philpapers.org/archive/BINAKR.pdf), Admin of https://diagonlemmy.social
I actually don’t remember what taught me about Lemmy and Kbin’s existence.
For me it was a german podcast about social media called "Haken dran". For a short time, they had a community on feddit.de, where the hosts also occassionally visited and sometimes they would mention "feddit" in their podcast, which got me on the hook.
Sadly, the podcast by now moved its community to discord.
Anyways, I do think metions in podcasts, YouTube videos, etc., matter. It raises awareness beyond the big companies fucking things up ... though I think the most effective thing to grow the Fediverse is to code better software.
Its kind of hard to say because I don't think X is giving out reliable numbers about their own monthly active users, so. ..
Simple bots, updates to Loops, and Flipboard takes over some automated RSS accounts.
Bluesky adds 700,000 new users in a week / A ‘majority' of the new users are from the US, indicating that people are searching for a new platform as an alternative to X.
There are now more than 14.5 million users total on the platform.
Whats your experiences with reaching out to other forums to join Lemmy?
I tried multiple times to win over H.P.-communities to join Lemmy, until now with no success. Usually they either dont reply, threaten to ban me (Reddit) or say they dont have the time.
The latter happened to me just recently. They heard about the Fediverse, think its cool, but are already overwhelmed with keeping the site up.
What do you think here? Are you having similar experiences? Are you even doing it? Whould it be a good idea to propose a minimal solution like RSS-integration rather than full AP-support?
Awesome! Themed instances are so important for the Fediverse. I wish you all the best :)
What aren't they joining Mastodon and Lemmy? Or even Threads?
Yes, and if called out, they say it happens for freedom of speech, which is absurd given that the richest man on earth provides the infrastructure and has a large presence on the platform himself.
Yes, and if called out, they say it happens for freedom of speech, which is absurd given that the richest man on earth provides the infrastructure, (soon) influences the legislative rules and has a large presence on the platform himself.
There are definitely more vegans on lemmy but given they are frequently targeted with harassment and trolling I doubt all of them are willing to expose themselves to such behavior.
For real. There’s a significant number of downvotes on this article even. What the hell?
As if. People disagreeing with you is not harassement. I guess almost no one want you to stop not eating meat.
I’m happy lemmy is flexible enough to offer spaces for all of us, assholes be damned. Thanks for offering places for people to feel comfortable!
Amen to that
Interesting, I never heard of this instance before. I love it. Happy gras eating!
I'm pretty sure most just don't know about us or don't care
Interesting! Is there a video of the event?
Blusky has 13 millions registered users but what about their monthly active users?
Mods are assholes is interesting, because its similar (but not the same as) all cops are bastards. Sure, a place where you dont need cops sounds great, but it also smells a lot like mass survailance or total anarchism (Mass survailance is walled garden internet and total anarchism is the fedi-pact).
A series adaptation of Stephen King's "Carrie" from horror maven Mike Flanagan is in development at Amazon, Variety has learned.
Thats an interesting dynamic, which also influences the choice of instance: which instance gives my posts the most initial boost.
This also results in a soft network network effect between different fedi servers: servers with a lot of reach attract a lot of people because they have a lot of reach. Its necessary that the biggest instance implements counter measures here. Lemmy.world does that by selecting the all-feed as default in the UI. Threads doesnt.
The article goes in a direction I like: plurality and to allow different communities to develop alongside each other is great. However, I still think we should push for establishing universal human rights. I'm not a fan of moral realitivism. I think every community should be able to get onto the Fediverse, but we don't need to applaud every community to do so, and can also take actions against communities that do bad things (e.g. by defederating).
I would recommend "The Dawn of Everything" by David Graber and David Wengrow, which shows how humans managed to live in different forms of community already throughout history. Maybe in the Fediverse, this could become more easy on the internet, too.
Also: The appalling betrayals of “The Apprentice,” a cabaret convention, a Bay Ridge dive bar, and more.
My Harry Potter instance is doing okay, so yeah ... Harry Potter fandom is slowly growing in the Fediverse. A thing that a year ago I thought wouldn't be possible in the Fediverse. Seems really like there is enough room in the Fediverse to let different communities co-exists along with each other even if they don't agree on many things
I think multi-communities (which have already been improved for funding) will push Lemmy forward big time. https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/818
self-hosted 3d printing app Manyfold joins the fediverse, and sub.club expands to longform blogging with write.as
Donald Trump is speaking out against "The Apprentice," the new movie starring Sebastian Stan as Trump.
Captain Marvel set to return in two major MCU Avengers movies
Problem: even with discovery, if your friends are on Threads or X, you still won't find them on Mastodon. But its a step in the right direction.
Is there a possibility to turn off image uploads on one's instance but still show images from other instances?
I know the issue has been answered before, but does anyone know if there exists some kind of work-around until the actual disable-image-upload is implemented in Lemmy?
Agatha All Along is a hit, thanks to decent viewership compared to an extremely low budget. But Disney is also celebrating its success in another way.
I'm creating a new, Harry Potter-themed Community - anybody interested in helping to moderating it?
My current instance, diagonlemmy.social has no images, which is not great. So I'm thinking about creating an instance with a Harry Potter meme community.
What do you think?
being added to join-lemmy.org
Hello, I wanted to ask what you have to do to be added to the join-lemmy.org page? Is there an email to call? The documentation only reads that you have to meet certain criteria, but is it then added automatically at some point?
It’s a small advance, but one that speaks to Meta’s enginerring team paying attention to how the fediverse community is trying to educate Threads users about the possibilities.
The fediverse is now something that you can evangelize about. Its turning into a buzzword ...
Bluesky continues to soar
As new users downloaded the app, Bluesky jumped to becoming the app to No. 1 in Brazil over the weekend, ahead of Meta's X competitor, Instagram Threads.
