The young person equivalent terminology is now "Gyat" which (I'm not making this up!) was reportedly coined by a streamer called YourRAGE. The more you know... (the more you wish you didn't?:-P)
Edit: the (accredited on the wiki page of the word) original origin story.
Yeah, but if she held up a sign saying "people can grill vegetables too" then we wouldn't be talking about it. Controversy sells clicks and drives engagement...
Insert "Life uh... finds a way" meme.
Meh, close enough. :-P
A lot of people still don't know.
Some people don't even know what Reddit is.
Now, Reddit is charging Google for priority access to its posts (article - only Google and Brave will show those results in the near future).
Perhaps Google will start charging money to use it also.
Cool! Consider the receipts delivered, and with my thanks for the gentle correction:-D.
Thank you for the explanation!:-)
But can someone follow you from a different Mastodon instance than the one you are currently on? Or was that something that changed in the last year? Maybe I misunderstood or it wasn't explained to me well, but I definitely get that people don't want to switch instances bc they will lose all their old followers, but is that the main impediment to people using Mastodon - they just don't want to switch to using it? If so, it's enough, bc as we have seen, these large entities like Twitter are a lot more fragile than people used to believe.
Bluesky uses "AT protocol", not ActivityPub. Ironically the former is trying to federate as well, but still it's a different protocol altogether (so it would federate within its own network, as in people could start up their own Bluesky instance). Despite that, some people tried building a bridge between ActivityPub and AT, but there was enormous pushback, driven in part by ideological differences between more serious Mastodon users and the more casual X/Twitter style user (picture a Reddit mod, now halve their IQ, and I'm just joking bc I've never had a Twitter account so I don't truly know what that filth is like to have to wallow in:-). Anyway, MBin is able to connect Mastodon to Lemmy bc they both use the ActivityPub protocol, but AT is a different protocol.
A lot of things allow you to export your settings, but nothing that I've heard of allows you to import your posts and such - and therefore truly migrate - your account from one place to another. Therefore the whole federated concept has been oversold - as in, "if you don't like a place you can leave it and go somewhere else", the same as anything else in the entire history of space and time (divorce, immigration, quitting your job, etc.). But if you do, then you lose everything - all of your follower base, which for like an author is impactful to their actual career. Hence why so many are so reluctant to leave X, despite the Musk having taken over (and the smell permeating the place now, to where most of their followers are gone as well).
It's the same reason why "everyone still uses Windows" (I don't): herd mentality, and also, like using Querty (that one I do), holding onto the past bc of not wanting to pay the price to have to switch.
Roughly one year ago, you say? Gee, I wonder what could possibly have happened roughly one year ago, hrm? Can't really think of anything particularly memorable that happened roughly one year in the past... [them, OP and all the commenters]
I heard that last year, they beat us by one - we came so close guys! We'll get 'em next time.
If you're wealthy they let you do it. Just grab the DOJ by the...
So if I say "^This", but like ironically, would that be funny?
No? Too soon you say? Never in a million years you say? You will now proceed to grind my organs and feed them to a billionaire's child you say? Okay, cul, just checking π.