Complete list of secondary accounts across Lemmy, claimed here to all be the same human:
This is definitely a sink-or-swim moment for Lemmy. If this is going to work, this is the chance. Twitter and Reddit are imploding. Users have a reason to try something new and are willing to deal with young, buggy platforms because it’s better than the alternative and they needed an Internet home. My upvote taking ten seconds to register is itself the knife’s edge of creation, a new birth.
Just not using the app is better than using the app.
I love that a service that isn’t making a buck off of us gets levels of engagement that for-profit social networks would kill for.
This is happening because:
Therefore, I expect engagement will go down over time, but I am hopeful it will reach a higher point of stability because the fediverse design seems better at getting more varied content seen by its users, and it makes it harder for a small group of people or posts to dominate the discussion space.
PS: Anybody know how to add a space after the last bullet in a list?
I swear there’s at least one of these ladies in every restaurant I’ve attended in recent memory. Now I’m going to be imagining what their salad just told them.
Somewhat, but it’s just the “how’s the weather?” of this community because most everyone is here from Reddit, so it’s a starting point to me. I don’t think Lemmy exists just to spite Reddit, and I participate in discussions having nothing to do with the subject.
Underrated comment. I picked it because I had no idea what I was doing and it sounded all-encompassing and I wanted access to everything. I didn’t even know what an instance was. I just picked it because it sounded like a good guess to get access to all of Lemmy.
We do have privacy laws today (USA user), but they are so weak that near my office I regularly see ads advising businesses to treat it as a liability problem and instead buy insurance as a faster and cheaper alternative to good practices.
And it works! This approach should not be feasible to address the costs of violating user privacy. It reiterates to me that we are far too lax.
Reddit is the best thing to ever happen to Lemmy. By making their product so terrible, it just keeps making Lemmy look more enjoyable because it’s incendentally rather than actively trying to be terrible.
It’s nice, but I feel like this is temporary. I don’t see Lemmy being more bot resistant. The bots will probably come. I think that’s alright because it’s just not the main problem that Lemmy is trying to solve.
This is hilarious. On my Desktop, which is quickly becoming my preferred interface for the moment, I just keep opening new tabs and letting it work when I post so I can move on with reading other content.
I ain’t even mad. You’ve got a good heart, soldier.
I recently experienced this while building an upgrade for my 3D printer. The upgrade kit included a touchscreen. I found out later that the touchscreen was effectively its own separate computer with more than 10x more resources than the actual computer inside the 3D printer that was doing the most important calculations.
The compute and memory resource constraints were basically nonexistent factors in the design of the printer and the upgrade kit. Merely, a simpler computer was easier to design for and characterize, so the printer itself had a very simple computer, and for the UX, a “beefy” computer was much easier to program. It’s bizarre seeing how little the amount of computer resources mattered. It might as well have been free.
Running Connect for Lemmy here on Android. It seems nice and minimalist. I was a little dissuaded from trying Jerboa with some of the negative reviews.
This sounds like a bug to me. At a minimum, it should be renamed to local subscribers rather than imply that it’s the total count.