Cool thanks
This is neat, but it should really be part of Lemmy to be able to link between instances in a way that rewrites the link to your own instance, and makes subscribing easier.
I fondly remember spending hours and hours in the T-Online BTX, which looked something like this: https://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/btx-jubilaeum-so-sah-der-internet-vorlaeufer-aus-fotostrecke-34503.html
There was this chat "village" themed based around Asterix & Obelix. I think it was the first chat I ever used, so it was magical. My older sister would mostly chat, while I watched. I still remember her handle from back then: Gutemine.
We later found out the chat cost 5ct/min (or 5 Pfennig per minute?)
Sorry I just saw this. I chuckled a little bit when you said "when you get the time", given that you literally have a back lock as high as the Empire State building ;-)
I'm sure there are other volunteers who can help. I'll reach out to the Unified Push guys.
Tuna Pizza aka Pizza Tonno.
This is very very very common in Europe (Italy, Germany, ...), but every time I mention it to anyone in the US they will look at me like I just told them I like eating car tires or something. My wife only eats tuna Pizza, but she has to make it herself because it is not sold anywhere in the US.
The votes are equally f-ed up IMHO. Sometimes you click on an upvote and the number changes wildly..
I can’t contribute code because I don’t know coding
Time to learn. Then you can fix things yourself.
There are about 35k active users on all instances combined (according to https://the-federation.info/platform/73, note that I mean "active" users, not total). That is a minuscule amount compared to even average-size subreddits. Give it time, and be part of the content-producers.
I just read this article and what Meta is doing then triggered all the alarm bells!
This tactic even has a Wikipedia page: Embrace, extend, and extinguish
From the Wiki (quite enlightening):
The strategy's three phases are:
- Embrace: Development of software substantially compatible with a competing product, or implementing a public standard.
- Extend: Addition and promotion of features not supported by the competing product or part of the standard, creating interoperability problems for customers who try to use the "simple" standard.
- Extinguish: When extensions become a de facto standard because of their dominant market share, they marginalize competitors that do not or cannot support the new extensions.
I'll be sure to remind everyone that it was you who started the trend.
You just made it a thing. Congratulations, you started a trend.
Awesome. Thanks for sharing 🙏