The great thing is that if a lot of people like Mastodon they can use it and if you don't like it you can use something differenent and you will still be able to communicate. That's the whole point.
this post was submitted on 07 Oct 2023
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noo the nerds need to have a superiority complex online because they can't prove anything in real life
You don't understand: it is not good if something is popular. Then there are people outside my bubble and they ruin it.
As a nerd that doesn't gatekeep and can prove something in real life, hey 😕
im using lemmy i feel like there's a flat level of nerd required to even make it this far into internet
but i am becoming a calisthenics nerd now highly recommend my interests are very plastic
Let's go web standards!
We gatekeeping liking the Fediverse now?
Kinda goes against the entire ethos
Gatekeeping the Fediverse? Cringe
To be honest, I think the best way to get Lemmy to grow in the near term will probably be getting more people to use both Mastodon and Lemmy, rather then hoping more people will shake away from reddit. I'm active on Lemmy but probably use mastodon more.
Ironically I'm the inverse. I spent some time on Mastodon, but I'm more into the Reddit/Lemmy format.
What I'd really like to see is the ActivityPub API being used to it's best ability. Theoretically, if it were better implemented on both Mastodon, Lemmy and other ActivityPub fediverse infrastructure, We could be able to see Mastodon posts on Lemmy instances as though they were always a Lemmy post, and vice versa.
Not so sure about this one, think part of what was good about Reddit/twitter/Tumblr/whatever is that they all kept a unique identity that catered to different tastes in content
If we just merge everything into one we lose that
I don't get it.
OP is gatekeeping
People who say they love the fediverse are usually talking about Mastodon, not Lemmy.
People who say they love the fediverse are usually talking about.... the fediverse?
Thanks I get it now but also I get how dumb this meme is
Maybe. Or, like most users, they are aware that "fediverse" refers to the ActivityPub network as a whole, as well as adjacent networks such as matrix and diaspora.
When I say fediverse, I don't mean Lemmy. If I want to refer to the part of the fediverse we are using, Lemmy/Kbin, I say threadiverse. It's just one corner of the network.
I have no interest in the twitter format for social media, but people who do and enjoy mastodon, have just as much right to be excited about federation and what it can do for social media.
What I don't understand, is why make this meme? Neither Lemmy nor Mastodon, is "the fediverse". Only together, do they become a "universe" of federated instances, and even disparate platforms, which yet interoperate.
A Mastodon user who says they love the fediverse, likely loves it for the same reasons a Lemmy, Kbin, Friendica, Pixelfed, or MissKey user does. Where's the joke?
or kbin ;)
It's a shame how often people forget us. Though could be a good thing given how much drama there is in some parts of Lemmy
Kbin's federation has been hit or miss a lot. It's not that we forget you, a lot of the time, you don't show up.
That will hopefully improve as Kbin matures.
To be fair, the isolation stuff was mostly at the beginning when the exodus started, but I couldn't blame people for leaving when that started. Some people just want to be where everyone is.
I can't say I've experienced much issue with federation since the early times, but then again I wouldn't know what it looks like on the Lemmy side.
I'm not referring to the intentional disabling of federation, but that kbin has had technical issues even after that which has made federation to and from lemmy instances intermittent.
I was on kbin when I first ditched Reddit, but boost coming out for Lemmy got me to switch. The mobile site for kbin is ok but nothing compared to a mostly fleshed out app. Also, like the other guy said the federation wasn't always there.
Personally I like the interface for Kbin. It has many of the features you want in modern forums, but retains a look reminiscent of older style forums. Though I can see it wouldn't be for everyone.
Ah, the great isolation. Was a funny time everyone wondering why they could only see Kbin content haha
Or pleroma
Or Misskey/Firefish
I doesn't matter which platform is a users point of contact. I don't think a lot of users miss the point that "fediverse" refers to all the platforms their platforms communicate with, together. Not just their platform.
Yes, that is exactly the point.
Most people only think it is mastodon, but it's all of them.
I mean it's the most successful federated platform so just by numbers of course more people are going to talk about it.
Man, I love the Fediverse. (only Lemmy)
Shall we not start this whole thing again, it's like the X isn't really Linux debate all over again