I am not sure I’d be using any mass communication platform that is primarily developed and/or funded by any government.
One could argue you're using one now.
spaduf
joined 2 years ago
for users to migrate it could be dead on arrival
Sublinks isn't meant to appeal to users, it's meant to appeal to admins.
A cohesive culture has definitely formed distinct from the rest of the fediverse. I think microblogging as a paradigm kind of lends itself to this but Lemmy certainly has a distinct culture as well.
Damn it's still wild to me that generating text is a solved problem.
I believe that's 900 active servers, not users.
Nope. That's 418k total. 38k active
They're on Mastodon and Misskey for the most part.
I thought they fixed the a.gup.pe groups recently?
the more convinced I am that the AT protocol is better than ActivityPub.
That's because AT was very deliberately designed to solve problems with ActivityPub.
I wonder what sort of bridging can be implemented between AT Protocol and ActivityPub implementations.
The folks over at https://fed.brid.gy/ have been working at this. Much to the chagrin of the folks over at Mastodon.
Yes but if you want to do just want anything more advanced than putting users in a list you're out of luck.
You're absolutely right and I definitely shouldn't be making broad statements like that. Another thing I've found is that if you can stomach the effort (or do this from the get go), it's a good idea to put all your academic or professional accounts into a single list. It's nice to check into a slightly smarter feed from time to time.
Pretty utilitarian on the ol thinkpad