@unexposedhazard
Agreed, he definitely needs more confidence.

@jojo

@regal @protogen Had some technical difficulties posting this but I eventually got it to work.

yes you can post to Lemmy from Mastodon, it's pretty cool, all you have to do is mention the @handle of the community on Mastodon and it'll boost your post automatically.

@frosty I'm usually all for self-hosting but here I think that the best thing is for it to be on a de-facto server like Matrix.org that way it'll be available in case our servers here are offline or not working for whatever reason. A self-hosted matrix server might not be available in such an outage, and therefore wouldn't be able to provide during the outage (which is important for receiving updates about the situation).

@kayzeekayzee Agreed, it's a very nice picture.

I just now noticed that the airships and hot air balloons are food-themed.

@TRBG @furry_irl Not entirely sure, it could be 3D or it could just be shading. The artist didn't say on the original Reddit post (seems to be the original post).

@KokusnussRitter Anyone you want

@onehundredninetysix

@LordAmplifier It definitely does. Too bad it isn't. Would probably be an Awesome movie, anime, or game.

@l_b_i
That sounds so dumb and racist (speciesist?) dragons should be allowed to fly anywhere and everywhere we choose. Also I agree, ties do suck. I'm glad my current job doesn't require them.

@LordAmplifier

@trslim I agree, they are indeed adorable.

@essell
Some shoes have leather in them, in the past it was almost universal that shoes would be made of leather, but with the advent of modern plastics and rubbers most shoes these days aren't made of leather anymore, since leather is more expensive.

Side note, in the past shoes were much more repairable and there were actually people known as cobblers who would make and, get this, repair shoes. Nowadays many modern shoes, especially sneakers, are built in a way that makes them significantly less if not completely unrepairable, which really sucks. We should be able to repair shoes just like in the old days #righttorepair

@196

@lemann I think these are very different issues on Mastodon than on Lemmy since on mastodon when its pending it isn't just a visual glitch like on Lemmy, it's just not letting you follow.

I've experienced what you're describing on Lemmy where it shows as pending but does show up in the subscriptions list after a few refreshes. It unfortunately doesn't seem to work out like that on Mastodon when following users or communities that are on Lemmy 0.19 instances.

@Kovukono I mean another big reason is that many people here highly value open source and decentralization and while Bluesky promises to deliver that decentralization via AT Proto, currently they haven't done that. There aren't really any other instances and the main one doesn't have AT Proto Federation enabled (so even if you set up your own it's no use), so at the moment Bluesky is no different from a centralized platform, just with the promise of being decentralized in the future.

Mastodon on the other hand is decentralized right now, with many many servers to choose from, it's not a future promise of future decentralization, it is decentralized already. It also doesn't carry the negative connotation that Invite-only platforms carry, which is promotion by way of FOMO (fear of missing out), yeah some instances are invite-only but there are other instances people can join and still interact with everyone else due to federation.

@LordAmplifier @l_b_i Also put on some nice calm music too. That helps with coziness factor.

Depends if the person was already hoarding wealth before or had the desire to. Generally those who have a desire for wealth tend to hoard gold as dergs, those who don't, well they don't.

@SuDmit

They can meet the dragon during working hours, no need to break in.

@cyberboy What do you think, does this get the official catboy seal of approval?

@lemann I wonder if it might also be affecting Kbin users too. I'm not sure though since I ditched Kbin a long time ago (there were lots of bugs and shitty people on there).

@db0 I tried sopuli.xyz, mander.xyz, lemm.ee, lemmy.world, and pawb.social.

Out of those only lemmy.world and pawb.social worked and allowed me to follow, all the others gave a pending message.

@mrmanager Yup something is definately wrong here. Made a Github issue so hopefully it can be addressed soon.

@Ghostalmedia @deadsuperhero I think the fact that I was able to see and reply to this comment of yours from Mastodon proves this idea false, if you check the Post history of this account you will also find that content posted in Lemmy is visible.

They absolutely do interact, lemmy is way more Mastodon friendly than most people give it credit for, considering the fact that communities/groups, automatically boost every post and comment for visibility.

So people on Lemmy being concerned about poorly moderated or cesspool microblog instances is indeed a valid concern.