How utterly depressing.

Does the Fediverse have a similar feature, where communities/magazines can be private and only allow users to view/subscribe to them with mod approval?

I know this is possible with instances, but that seems impractical since the account would be defederated from the entire Fediverse to maintain privacy.

Some clever coding genius should host an instance for a bot they make that stays federated with everyone, and the entire point of the bot is to crawl across posts and anyone posting from Threads gets a nice public reply about why Threads is a toxic instance and they should switch to a non-Meta one immediately.

I woke up this morning without a Memmy update alert and my first thought was "OMG is gkd ok????"

Then I get an update pushed to my phone while pouring my coffee... The universe is right again.

For me it's not about the immediate abilities to use Reddit/Lemmy, is about my projected ability.

Yeah the Reddit app sucks and it's slightly better than the iOS apps for Lemmy... for now.

Reddit has had years to improve their app and has not made much, if any effort to do so.

Meanwhile I've had two updates today to my beta iOS app for Lemmy, fixing bugs before I've even had a chance to find them and enabling new features literally every day.

The future only looks promising for one of these platforms, and that's why I'd rather weather Lemmy's growing pains instead of endure Reddit's stagnant state.

The article is behind a paywall. Can you share the text?

I've never used Instagram before but I would like to start posting photos, however the vibe I'm getting from Pixelfed is this is a medium for photography art. I'm learning to facet gemstones and thought it would be cool to do photos of my gems that I cut to show my talent progress. Would that kind of non-photography art fit in on Pixelfed?

It's purely subjective but I've seen a noticeable increase in bot prevalence. My lurker account has recently had multiple porn bots suddenly start to follow it which has never happened before.

What I wouldn't give to have stats on what % of the active Reddit community is actually organic vs bot.

This is exactly what I think. We might see a fraction of a spike from the few holding out until the very end, but it won't be this mass exodus people keep proclaiming it to be.

Apollo has published many blatant warnings to the app about the shutdown, you literally can't use the app without seeing them. Nobody using Apollo is going to be surprised at being cut off.

I assume the other apps are doing something similar to warn their users.

Those who care are already finding their way over here. Those who don't care are using the Reddit app. Those who are somehow still ignorant of what's happening probably don't use Reddit enough to know the difference.

It feels like if Twitter and LinkedIn had a baby, it would be Threads.

Looks like I need to buy me some cute devil horns to wear when I go vote.

Thank you for the reassurance, I think I will share my hobby once I start! Maybe someday you'll see a gemstone on your feed and recognize my name. 😄

Honestly the speed at which you create and implement and fix these things is incredible - and mildly alarming. Do you sleep? Is your blood at least 10% caffeine by now?

ARE YOU A ROBOT IN DISGUISE???

But for real, thank you for all you do and a huge kudos for how freakishly efficient you are. 😄

Thank you! You're soothing my nervousness quite a bit lol, I'll take the plunge and start posting as soon as I have my equipment!

Buying interchangable needles was a huge game changer for my organization ability - they replace both circular and straight needles. Between those and dpns, I never need to buy needles unless I break or lose something.

Here is a pic of my diy dpn storage in case anyone is looking for inspiration.

Aargh Imgur is being dysfunctional.

This isn't going to happen in the future.

It's happening right now.

Bots are already engaging with users and pushing narratives. The percentage of Reddit that is inorganic is probably higher than most people would expect.

I'm sorry for asking so many questions, I hope you don't mind! My faceting class is tomorrow and I'm going to be quizzing the teacher mercilessly I promise.

Glue vs wax vs epoxy - everyone seems to have their preferred adhesive (and it seems like wax is the least popular lol). What made you prefer glue over the other options? Do you ever switch it up depending on the material or cut you're working with?

Has it ever happened where a crack/flaw appeared that was deep inside the stone, to the point you just couldn't reasonably polish it out? Is the stone ruined at that point?

Dracula purple gang rise up!!!

Although it would be fun if people could make and share their own themes. That's probably a nightmare to program, but it would be neat!

Mlem and Memmy are genuinely both awesome. I recommend you get both and try them out. I’m currently leaning towards Memmy but Mlem still gets some attention from me too.

Each still has their little bugs and quirks to work out, and the creators are very receptive to feedback and suggestions. Please feel free to check out their respective community and post your feedback when you have it!