It's been said to death but at heart, I've always felt that when it comes to piracy, it's a service issue, not a cost issue.

Except for you Adobe. That's a cost issue.

I see this upcoming election will be the final one. Nice work.

Underrated comment. I picked it because I had no idea what I was doing and it sounded all-encompassing and I wanted access to everything. I didn't even know what an instance was. I just picked it because it sounded like a good guess to get access to all of Lemmy.

I feel quite confident in saying that we have no justice in this country.

This is definitely a sink-or-swim moment for Lemmy. If this is going to work, this is the chance. Twitter and Reddit are imploding. Users have a reason to try something new and are willing to deal with young, buggy platforms because it's better than the alternative and they needed an Internet home. My upvote taking ten seconds to register is itself the knife's edge of creation, a new birth.

I noticed that I don't have a karma or upvote counter for my account, and I felt free. Let's keep it that way. It just encourages more ego and skin in the discussion ahead of focusing on the content and further penalizes users who sometimes have an unpopular, but still civil and constructive, opinion. I don't want an echo chamber effect.

I imagine that implementing such a metric could become quite confusing if it turned out that not all instances permitted all communities in the future. If this is already the case, please excuse me. I've been on Lemmy for one hour total. Solving that consistency problem couldn't be easier than just not solving it.

No one could have predicted this /s

Just not using the app is better than using the app.

It's part of the migration plan to help users move away from the platform.

This sounds like a bug to me. At a minimum, it should be renamed to local subscribers rather than imply that it's the total count.

Somewhat, but it's just the "how's the weather?" of this community because most everyone is here from Reddit, so it's a starting point to me. I don't think Lemmy exists just to spite Reddit, and I participate in discussions having nothing to do with the subject.

Happy to be part of the sudden stress test of your software and infrastructure! June 30 hit and I needed a place to go. Found Lemmy. Found Connect for Lemmy. I don't know if this is the future for a Reddit-like service, but I'm pleased to see some real activity and I'm glad to be a part.

It's really, really smart that it looks like Reddit in terms of page layout. It satisfies the brain that likes its patterns and routines. I even put my favorite Lemmy app right where I used to launch from to satisfy the muscle memory. I really hope this sticks.

Even more, make it more like a backup feature that's opt out not opt in. Thus, when a server goes away, the user still has their community list to import somewhere else.

Racism! Many, many racists in this country.

Running Connect for Lemmy here on Android. It seems nice and minimalist. I was a little dissuaded from trying Jerboa with some of the negative reviews.

I love that a service that isn't making a buck off of us gets levels of engagement that for-profit social networks would kill for.

This is happening because:

• Novelty, because new is fun. This will go down over time.
• The most passionate users are more likely to be early adopters. More casual users are coming.
• Smaller network means your content is less likely to be covered before. This factor will go down over time.
• Fediverse encourages multiple related communities, which means your specific contributions are more likely to be seen by other users.
• Lack of bots/astroturfing leads to more positive interactions. Bots will likely increase over time.

Therefore, I expect engagement will go down over time, but I am hopeful it will reach a higher point of stability because the fediverse design seems better at getting more varied content seen by its users, and it makes it harder for a small group of people or posts to dominate the discussion space.

PS: Anybody know how to add a space after the last bullet in a list?

This is hilarious. On my Desktop, which is quickly becoming my preferred interface for the moment, I just keep opening new tabs and letting it work when I post so I can move on with reading other content.

I ain't even mad. You've got a good heart, soldier.

But it's Unix-like!

Uses a Linux VM for all the assignments anyway.

It really helps that the official Reddit app is so awful. The bar is quite low for acceptability!