Just reached 20 millions today

2024-11-19 08:27:29

Blaze (he/him) via Fediverse memes

Blaze@feddit.org

By @octopus_ink@lemmy.ml

fedimemes

2024-11-19 09:11:52

lowleveldata

lowleveldata@lemmy.world

Fediverse is the over-engineered great solutions that most people don’t understand

2024-11-19 09:20:21

Arsecroft

Arsecroft@lemmy.sdf.org

Great! I never wanted 20 million users in my subreddits or irc channels or friend list.

We’ll all be happier this way. I’m happier this way, anyway.

2024-11-19 09:29:15

akilou

akilou@sh.itjust.works

Bluesky: install an app and make an account.

Mastodon: first pick a server. What does that mean? You figure it out. Ok, now select a client and install it. Doesn’t matter which one, but it actually does. Then use that client app to log onto the server you made an account on. Now you just need to figure out who to follow and you’re ready to participate!

2024-11-19 09:40:27

Telodzrum

Telodzrum@lemmy.world

Gee . . . I wonder why

Image/photo

2024-11-19 11:36:34

Kühlschrank

makyo@lemmy.world

I want Mastodon to work as much as I want Lemmy to work but as long as all the people I want to follow are on/going to Bluesky I’ll be on Bluesky too. At least until it gets entshitified and everyone flees again.

2024-11-19 12:03:14

HubertManne

HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com

why is the fediverse the girlfriend. I mean ewww. it whoudl be like bluesky and fediverse as a lesbian couple with xitter checking them out from a construction site.

2024-11-19 13:21:21

morgunkorn

morgunkorn@discuss.tchncs.de

That’s pretty good though, there’s a whole lot of people on Melon Husk’s site that i wouldn’t want to see in my Fedi Timeline.

2024-11-19 16:28:36

SharkEatingBreakfast

SharkEatingBreakfast@sopuli.xyz

Gonna put this out there: the fediverse is vastly depressing and not very fun. Lacks creative-types, too.

I see why people would choose the alternative.

2024-11-19 19:13:17

ThrowawayPermanente

ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works

He was never our boyfriend

2024-11-19 21:49:37

Maxxie

Maxxie@lemmy.blahaj.zone

Happy twitter is dying. For awhile I though modern society will take anything from fascists, but maybe there’re still some lines normies won’t cross.

And yea bluesky is just infant twitter, but it’s like vaping: may be not great for you but hella better than smoking.

2024-11-20 04:54:13

ekZepp

ekZepp@lemmy.world

2024-11-20 06:59:25

Randelung

Randelung@lemmy.world

Breaking: Musk offering to buy BlueSky.

/s, but barely.

2024-11-20 08:01:35

Tin

Tin@lemmy.blahaj.zone

Honestly it’s fine. Keep fedi niche, it’s why it continues to be comfy.

2024-11-20 08:20:30

Comment105

Comment105@lemm.ee

Yeah, let the project serve a few thousand then die off entirely well before 2030. That’s what this should be.

Let’s barely be a blip on the radar and make no difference at all to how the future of Internet fora goes.

Let’s do to the fediverse idea what some families do to a discounted grill, use it a few times a year then throw it in a dumpster when it gets rusty.

2024-11-20 09:14:49

jol

jol@discuss.tchncs.de

I rather it grow organically than go viral.

2024-11-20 11:58:52

Comment105

Comment105@lemm.ee

Most people here would have have Lemmy not grow much at all.

2024-11-20 12:01:31

jol

jol@discuss.tchncs.de

There is a price for going mainstream, and I agree that I don’t think I want to pay it. R*ddit was also once niche…

2024-11-20 18:54:48

Comment105

Comment105@lemm.ee

Yep, that’s right. That’s what I mean.

We’re doing nothing with this framework. It’s going nowhere. We’re not dethroning or replacing or reshaping shit.
Lemmy will be done and dead before Trump’s term is, even if he follows the term limit and hands it off in 4 years.

2024-11-21 01:12:28

jol

jol@discuss.tchncs.de

I don’t believe that. Lemmy continues to slowly grow. It’s not dieing at all.

2024-11-21 08:22:49

Comment105

Comment105@lemm.ee

We’ll just have to wait and see. But clearly people here don’t want to get even close to the numbers of the big sites.

2024-11-21 13:15:03

jol

jol@discuss.tchncs.de

I mean, why would we? Clearly that brings more bad than good things?

2024-11-21 18:47:43

Comment105

Comment105@lemm.ee

What the fuck are you even getting out of this? 3 new funny pictures a day? Couple pieces of advice last month?

2024-11-22 08:29:20

jol

jol@discuss.tchncs.de

I’m not chronically online. Therea more than enough content every day. Maybe find a hobby?

2024-11-22 11:59:12

Comment105

Comment105@lemm.ee

I thought the purpose of the fediverse was to create a framework for strong independent communities that cannot be subverted by corporate (reddit) interests.

But without numbers there is no strength, no purpose for organization. Then what are we doing here? Mild entertainment?

2024-11-22 16:57:27

jol

jol@discuss.tchncs.de

While you have a point, any big enough network becomes prey of commercial interests and propaganda…

2024-11-23 00:05:20

Comment105

Comment105@lemm.ee

So we just drop it, then? I might as well delete my account today.

2024-11-23 00:32:51

Scott M. Stolz

scott@authorship.studio

Commercial interests and propaganda will come to the fediverse. The propaganda is already here if you know where to look.

The biggest strength of the fediverse is that administrators and users have control over what they consume. They are not force-fed information from third-parties without their consent.

So, companies and politicians (and their agents) are going to show up on the fediverse. But you don't have to follow them.

2024-11-20 10:35:40

Jezebelley

jeze3d@sh.itjust.works

Personally, I’m glad the normies are going somewhere else. They can continue to clout chase and post AI crap on BlueSky and leave it off the fediverse. I just deleted my BlueSky account after seeing the 20th repost of “post a selfie showing your new followers what they’re dealing with!” It was so cringe and narcissistic I immediately went back to the nerds on Mastodon. Significantly higher IQ userbase.

2024-11-20 11:39:27

Grandwolf319

Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works

That’s cause the Twitter format is not for people who want the open source experience.

Twitter format is about self promotion, it’s not a place to discuss ideas anonymously.

2024-11-20 14:12:44

JaggedRobotPubes

jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world

Fediverse still has linux and github vibes. Which is good in terms of functioning and free and made in the spirit of comraderie. And bad in terms intuitive and easy usability.

Programmers either don’t understand that “nice to look at and use” is actually a really important aspect of an app/program, or it’s a lot harder to do that well than it seems from the outside. I really don’t know. When it’s just one person making the whole thing, it makes sense that they split their work where they can.

But when you’re dealing with a serious contender for a major platform, it’s not optional anymore, and it’s not a normie thing.

2024-11-21 08:32:20

GHiLA

GhiLA@sh.itjust.works

The Fediverse will exist henceforth as the place people go who are “fed up” with wherever they were.

I have zero worries about Lemmy or Mastodon over the long term, but I have no hope whatsoever in their popularity. We will always be one of the smaller, peanut-galleries of the internet, and that’s ok.