It’s about to have more potential for growth.

People who want near-perfect distribution of power often talk about the serverless model. It’s sounds like it might work for something like e-mail, but I don’t see how it’s possible for something like Lemmy. This comment it cached on every instance with one person who follows it.

Atm, keeping Lemmy going for a couple of days might require 50 Gigabytes and lots of bandwidth. If you put that on a mobile phone, it’ll be a 50 Gig app, which will drain all your data in minutes.

But I think chatboards work well with servers, so it doesn’t seem like a problem.

It was removed, and I was marked as a bot.

I am not a bot!

Having ‘no single source of truth’ is part of the joy.

If you’re not happy with /r/cars moderators banning everyone who drives a Skoda, then you’re out of luck. Here in federation land, you can just go to a different lemmy.something/c/cars place.

Of course you can still follow and interact with all the /c/cars communities from any Lemmy instance (and interact a little from Mastodon).

Nah - each service (Mastodon/ Pixelfed/ Kbin) requires its own app.

You can sign up to Mastodon, then follow the rest from there, but the experience won’t be complete (no downvotes, for example).

It’s all a little arbitrary. When you create a new service (like Lemmy, or Mastodon), you can have them link with anything, in any fashion you like. The defaults are mostly sensible.

For example, I’ve just made a mastodon post asking /r/casual a question. Once that synchronizes across, you’ll see the topic over there.

Yea, always hated that one.

maybe Elon musk will save the children /YET I SPEAK FALSLY FOR HUMOROUS EFFECT AS MUSK WILL IN FACT NOT SAVE ANY CHILDREN

You’re stepping on the joke, once by mentioning it, and again by ripping out the best thing about low-key sarcasm: that some people don’t get the joke.

Frankly, its racist against the British.

It’s a different thing. E-mail, Matrix, and ActivityPub are all different protocols. Mastodon and Lemmy both exist on the ActivityPub (i.e., the Fediverse).

Lemmy’s so new that I think a lot of people are still unsure how to curate their feed.

€30? Absolute joke. I can’t imagine these guys make many sales.

This stuff never gets deleted

Even within Reddit communities, a lot of posts ended up in multiple places, and the ‘crossposting’ function seemed off to me, because everyone voted on and commented in different places.

I wonder if a ‘tag’ system wouldn’t work better, where a post shows up under multiple hashtags. This way, a picture could go under ‘#sea #thalassophobia #submarines #pictures’ all at once.

If everyone votes on the same post, posts would receive negative attention for inappropriate tags (I’m assuming that people would downvotes pictures of cats which had the #dogs hashtag).

You can sell accounts?

How on earth would you do that anyway? Do I go onto Amazon, or just my local fruit market?

Yea, I have no idea why people are even attempting this nonsense. Perhaps they think that ‘computers are magic’, because it’s quite clear that nobody would try to verify someone’s age when it comes to posting images through snail-mail.

Of course if they wanted to give it a proper go, maybe someone could make a real age test:

• which of the following is more irritating:
  • Gorillaz
  • S Club 7
  • N-Sync
• how much do nappies cost per month?
• which instrument do you use with a casette?
  • screw-driver
  • VHS player
  • bic
• which type of phone was most popular in 1995?
  • Nokia
  • Rotary
  • Chordless

Arch.

I once ran Ubuntu, but the install instructions for so many programs are ‘import this key’, ‘add these dependencies’, and the system quickly became a mess. I had install scripts to install and uninstall some things, but it was too much for me to take care of.

Eventually I found that if you want the latest terragrunt and i3, Arch Linux is easier than Ubuntu.

I’ll add that most people think Noah took two of each animal onto the ark. It was seven of the male and female of the clean animals, and two of the male and the female of the unclean animals.