Reading material: https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html
Fester
joined 2 years ago
USB drives are ridiculous these days. 512g for ~$40 USD. And USB 3 can fill it up in like a minute. Plus it’s always handy to have one. Best value option IMO.
They’re separate and you should probably just join them all. There’s a ton of “gaming” communities, for example. There’s no reason for them to feel they’re competing, since people can just join them all and they can have their own separate rules. I think over time some will naturally become more popular and others will die off. Depends on the mods and how they manage it, really, plus other organic factors. But they are literally just different, unique communities. Consider the @instance to be an important part of the community name.
I imagine apps will eventually allow you to group communities under custom “topics” or something, so it seems cohesive from the users’ perspective. If you’re familiar with Apollo, you could create “Multi-Reddits” for a custom feed with any subs you put in each Multi-Reddit. It was super useful. I had one for gaming, one for news, one for cats. In this case where so many have the same name, it would be helpful to have a reminder label when you comment or post so you see exactly where you’re posting, and maybe a helpful link to the sidebar so you can double check the rules for that particular community. Maybe the Lemmy devs will even add an option for the communities to group together on their end somehow, someday, while still maintaining their decentralized independence.
The sky’s the limit for what may happen in the coming months/years, and improvements are happening fast. For now, enjoy the fact that there are many community options. I don’t see it as a problem, but a feature of decentralization.
You can always group them yourself, if you want, by creating a different account for each topic you’re interested in and only subscribing to a narrow number communities on that account. That way your home tab on one account would show all the gaming or cat pic communities you chose. Then switch back to your ”main” account for all the beans memes, etc.
Also, if you’re searching from your instance or in an app, you may not be seeing all the communities that exist if your instance hasn’t already connected to them. You also don’t see how many total users across all instances are subscribed - just the number of your local instance users that subscribed. So check out https://lemmyverse.net/communities for a better and more complete way to find and view communities and their stats - especially if you’re looking for the largest ones. Copy the full URL (starting with the !) and then paste it in your app’s search bar for a foolproof way to get to it.
“Ya’ll can’t behave.”
I mean, I have nothing against moderating whatsoever and I appreciate good mods. But that specific phrase always made me cringe. I just hope I don’t find every potentially controversial post already locked when I open it with YaLL CAn’T bEhAVe or similar condescending laziness at the top.
Well fuck. Anyone know a good SLS-free alternative to Dove body wash? Everything I can find is like 3x more expensive. I’ll take the hit but damn.
Companies need to stop putting that shit in their soap and toothpaste anyway. Too many people are sensitive to it and it’s not necessary at all.
Back in 2021 Reddit released an update for the official app that caused scrolling to stutter, instantly heating up my battery and deplete battery life at an absurd rate. This was on Apple’s newest top phone at the time (12 Pro Max.)
I immediately knew something was fucky, so I switched to Apollo that same night. I checked back for about 3 more updates over a few weeks. During that time, Reddit never acknowledged the bug or fixed it. Since then, it looks like they’ve repeatedly caused the same issue with iOS and some android phones.
If they didn’t shit the bed back then, I’d never have discovered Apollo or realized it was better in every way - not just at not physically destroying my new phone.
And now here we are again, discovering new and better alternatives in Lemmy and decentralization thanks to Reddit’s incompetent fuckery. Thanks Reddit!
The apps are going to be a game changer. If they can make it easier and intuitive to sign up, manage your accounts, find communities, and eventually group communities together and filter your feed, casual users will start flocking. It’s all about the UX and UI.
I hope to see the apps even accept donations and distribute part of it to the Lemmy devs and server hosts to help keep things sustainable.
Poor bot will be constantly woken up only to remember that there is no one to remind. Only the void.
Basically this: https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html
Meta is not a friend to FOSS, privacy, choice, decentralization, or anything the fediverse stands for. The only thing they could possibly gain by federating is to consume or squash Mastadon before it becomes noticeable competition, because they know people will eventually grow tired of the corporate bullshit they plan to pull with Threads. They don’t want people to have growing options. They’ll join the party with 100s, maybe 1000s of times more active users than Mastadon, and it won’t take long at all before they’re fully driving the ship. If there’s any attention brought to the fediverse, it will be because a massive corporation has arrived to “fix” it.
Right now, Mastadon is growing because of Twitter’s spiral, the same way Lemmy is beginning to grow because of Reddit’s. Threads has the outright goal of growing off Twitter’s failures, but they won’t do it passively like Mastadon. They’re going to be aggressive and brutal.
Have people forgotten how disgusting Meta is? Don’t expect anything good to come from dealing with them. Folks should want to join these platforms because they believe in open source and decentralization. Corporate social media has their own problems for a reason. I’d have hoped people wouldn’t want them to spread that cancer here. This is supposed to be the escape from all that.