He and his team are also probably loving this just because it gives them content to talk about on the show. It's a win-win.

It's fine, but not great. It works in a pinch, but it doesn't feel nearly as smooth/integrated as a native app.

The more you call it a Reddit alternative, the more people will stop migrating over as the Reddit outrage cools down (and as much as spez can go fuck himself, he's right, it will pass). I think Mastodon had the same issue at the time of the Twitter migration, but lately it's been focussing more on the fact that good instances provide a nicer small community feel that's more reflective of the state of Twitter in 2008-2012 or so.

Advertise the community, not the drop-in replacement for another platform that will always be larger and more mainstream.

I posted this on Mastodon, but I completely disagree with the idea of defederating from Meta instances on principal for the same reason I don't want my Fastmail account to stop interacting with Gmail accounts just because I feel Google is too corporate. That defeats the entire purpose of open standards and federated content. I should be able to choose to personally block content from Meta instances if I want to, but it's to the detriment of the community to fracture the Fediverse just because it's starting to grow large enough to attract attention from one of the big tech companies.

The reality is, a federated Meta service would at least initially grow the idea of federated social media as a whole, and likely drive traffic to Kbin/Lemmy/Mastodon from people who want to get off of the Meta platforms, but don't want to cut contact with their friends/coworkers/enemies entirely. While I probably wouldn't make an account, I'd be interested in at least being able to follow a few of my friends who I actually have interest in seeing updates from via my Masto/Kbin accounts.

And I'm aware of the embrace/extend/extinguish paradigm, but premature defederation isn't the answer there either.

I'm an advocate for federated content for convenience, not on principal alone.

Start with a relatively short page turner. Force yourself to read for 10 minutes at a set time every day. I found that when I was in a bit of reading funk, I had to simply take it a day at a time with small, easily digestible chunks. Once you get the first one out of the way, it starts to feel a lot more natural to work your way through more.

And this is why you always immediately turn on branch protection.

It'd be interesting to have metamagazines or something along the like. There's a lot of repeat mags out there that would benefit from an easy way to share/federate at a smaller scale than per-instance.

I'm fine with reposting stuff like News, where it's relatively impersonal and I'm not necessarily concerned with comments.

But I also like having more in depth conversations on the creative stuff. Just having bots post that feels impersonal.

I guess it depends on the magazine.

Great, I get a year or so to wait for sales and community reviews for Star Wars before I pick it up. Works for me.

It's fine, but not great. It works in a pinch, but it doesn't feel nearly as smooth/integrated as a native app.

I think for me the problem with Bookwyrm (and one of the reasons I'm not really looking to move from Storygraph) is that I don't really see services like Goodreads or Storygraph as social networks. I'm more interested in being able to manage lists, recommendations, progress, etc than I am with interacting with users on those platforms. I think they're so specialized, that federating with those types of apps to Lemmy would end up a lot of noise on both that wouldn't really make sense for either.

The only thing I can see making sense for federation for me is maybe being able to follow a reviewer I like via my Mastdon account, so I can keep track of reviews without having to log into the platform.

That's just my thoughts though, but full scale federation vs something more like RSS to me is where the line between social network and app with social features lies for me.

They're behind React which has become pretty ubiquitous in the frontend dev space too.

Essential viewing for anyone who's ever taken the TTC.

I'm all for anything that will provide an avenue for people to move off of corporate platforms. The average user doesn't care, but for some of the more tech-savvy FB/Insta/WhatsApp users who join it could be an interesting way to get their feet wet and maybe look to move to alternate platforms without leaving their contact behind completely.

Reading is a skill, and if you don't do it for a long while it can be hard to focus for long chunks of time. The 10 minute thing isn't a hard rule, just a target. But I do think at least for a while it helps to build up routine and focus as you get back into the swing of things.

Kbin/Lemmy and Mastodon remind me of Reddit and Twitter back when the communities on the platform felt more like, well, communities. I don't think Kbin is quite at the critical mass yet (and personally I don't like either Kbin or Lemmy's UIs, while I do love Ivory for Mastodon), but I'm actually really enjoying the platform. Hopefully it continues to grow organically.

There are some subreddits I can see value from cross posting from, but this isn't one of them. News and stuff, sure, go for it. Stuff that's personal to a user though feels weird to me.

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I didn't watch, but the list of announced games seems pretty decent. Looking forward to a new 2D Mario game, though I hope it doesn't feel as weird/floaty as NSMB did.

I don't use Bookwyrm either, but coming from the perspective of Storygraph, I don't really think the average user there wants their review to become a talking point. I'm not really writing them for deep discussion or analysis, just my off-the-cuff thoughts on finishing a book, more for my own sake too. I also don't want to see threaded conversations when i'm skimming over reviews to decide on a book to read. Hence why I think it makes more sense for a publicly follow but don't interact type of federation for those types of services.