Are you kidding me?
I thought it was more than that when I called it a ghost town.
Imagine if in the entirety of Lemmy, in all channels of all instances, there was a total of 6 posts per hour, and none of them were in channels you wanted to subscribe to.
It took a day before I got my activation email. There was no indication on the website it was gonna take that long, but I'm guessing it's early enough that it might still require manual approval.
That said it's still very much a ghost town
I'd like to argue that using AP is an inconsistent rule for membership. For example, Diaspora has been considered to be part of the fediverse from early on, but it doesn't use AP.
I don't really know where to draw the line. AP simply isn't suitable for some applications, but it makes sense to include it for branding
Yeah, I think that's kinda bullshit though, because there are plenty of things I refrain from myself due to ethical concerns but I don't get righteous about with strangers.
For example, I think pickup trucks are unethical (for most people), because they're dangerous on roads and environmentally wasteful, but I don't patrol parking lots seeking to start fights with people driving pickups.
I personally think that factory farms are disgusting, so I only buy free-range eggs. But I don't judge people who buy cheaper eggs.
You can practice your own ethics without throwing it into people's faces. And besides, that strategy almost never results in converts.
It's not just Lemmy. I was thinking more like Mastodon. Tbh I haven't tried frendica, but I haven't heard of anyone actually using it.
At least pixelfed defaults you to the main instance so you don't have to think about it if you don't want to. Although the official android app hasn't worked for me in ages.
IRC???
Not even xmpp?
That's a decision
It's ok... I guess.
No, it's continued relative unpopularity in the face of universal hated-but-contined-use of the mainstream networks continues to be depressing.
Although the onboarding process for most of the major fediverse platforms is a bit scary for normies.
I can't tell if this is tongue in cheek or not.
In case not, you can be secretly vegan, you don't have to get up in people's business about it. You can just privately adjust your own diet
"fittest" in "survival of the fittest" doesn't mean strongest or most dominant.
It means "best adapted".
It can be rephrased as "the species most likely to survive are those best adapted to their environment"
So it wasn't really debunked, per se, the strange perversion of "alpha" survival was debunked. Mutual aid is absolutely an excellent environmental adaptation that leads to survival.
Both Wikipedia and fediverse.party consider Diaspora, and a handful of other (mostly defunct) protocols as being part of the fediverse.
I don't really like the use of AP to be a qualification of being in the fediverse. There must be a better way to qualify a platform, even if it means that use of AP is a natural consequence.