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Cake day: June 4th, 2023
  • Packopus@kbin.socialtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•How should I be using Lemmy?
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    1 year ago

    @kerplunk Also to that point, this is apparently a baseless rumor started from someone who had some beef with the dev at some point. And it’s only spiralled because people keep spreading this info to new people who then just rinse and repeated what they hear because they’re all new.

    I can’t find the link but it’s on the lemmy blog. So it’s best not to spread the info based on what you hear in the comments anyway. Lemmy is fine as long as you like the software. The best way to not support them is by not donating or something. That’s all they get from it. Let them be tankies if they are, and distance yourself from the core instances.

    kbin is newer but in my opinion the better interface. And if I stick around it will only get better!

    I’d say Beehaw is the fediverse for your kids. let them be soft and kind and ban curse words.

    You’re safe with lemmy or kbin, probably. Just live with some growing pains for a month or two.

    @admiral_muffin @PlutoniumAcid

  • Packopus@kbin.socialtoTechnology@beehaw.org•Dispelling the myth of a universal "Lemmy" community, and discussion of what the fediverse really is
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    1 year ago

    @hazelnot

    Not everyone is a programmer with programmer knowledge making programmer money.

    That’s true, but then we run back in to the problem of what I saw in early kbin days (before Reddit influx) thinking that there should be many instances all having unlimited communities. But this is basically duplicating communities that are now visible thousands of times. There should at least be a theme/community to each instance and have micro-communities in that.

    My example would be current-day forums. There are “instances” for just about everything. Most of the time when I buy a new car/motorcycle I join whatever forum site made for that specific vehicle. So that’s what I was thinking when I think it’s feasible to make fediverse instances of current sites. Mainly just make federation features the de-facto standard so people can subscribe to their conversations.

    I’ve already seen how Wordpress can federate with a plugin, and every blog post is like any other post. Forums can be similar depending on their backend software the site is running.

    @Cipher @trachemys

  • Packopus@kbin.socialtoTechnology@beehaw.org•Dispelling the myth of a universal "Lemmy" community, and discussion of what the fediverse really is
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    1 year ago

    @Cipher I think of it more of an instructional issue specifically rather than learning issue. People explain “it’s like email” but fail to deliver the fact that it should be more like “It’s how the internet should work”. Where people think Lemmy is THE SITE and can communicate with kbin THE SITE.

    It should be mentioned that if anyone has built a website, that Lemmy is the software. You install Google Chrome on your computer, you install lemmy on your computer. You are now able to ACCESS all the other websites like you would in Chrome.

    People think “oh it’s like email, well I know Gmail is pretty good so I’ll make an account there. Whatever decisions Google makes is by extension my decision.” The average user doesn’t know what email actually is. They don’t know that you can make your own email service. They don’t know you can even just buy a domain and have your own email address.

    The only thing that bugs me about the fediverse as a whole is that these threadiverse concepts shouldn’t have communities. If it was implemented as intended, you’d have to make a community by making a new instance. The community should be federated, and then duplicate communities would get individually federated or defederated.

    I think the ambiguity of the fediverse is muddied by how each software is trying to implement it. And it’s almost hard to incentivize making your own instance.

    @trachemys