Honestly, lemmy and the fediverse as a whole will have natural growth and thats fine - mastodon has been around for like 8 years and is only recently getting a small amount of attention and mainstream usage. Like take the long view - like the really long view like 15 years from now. It’ll probably be huge, but until then we will just share memes and have a good time discussing stuff.

Perfect, I was looking to improve my chess skills

20 year nostalgia cycle - 🥹

Pixelfed just implemented an instagram import feature as well!

Havent heard of exploding-heads, I guess thats a good thing?

This is now going to end up costing them more money cause they’ll have to police the usage of thier api with all these exceptions lol

That is how mastodon handles groups currently, as proper group support is still cooking. It is now on mastodons radar and hopefully that’ll lead to better support in the very near future.

there aren’t that many kbin instances out there

This is also due to its age, its only 2 years old and only just recently gained more than 1 contributor to its codebase. When the reddit migration started about 2 weeks ago, kbin considered itself still in alpha; with lemmy in beta. As the software matures, more instances will pop-up as admins gain confidence in it.

Personally, I think the CIA is also pissed at him after mysteriously losing tons of informants in 2020 and 2021. There are probably papers that trump mishandled that are so classified that they can’t be used in the indictment, cause that would be releasing them. I do not like either the DOD or CIA, but if there are two groups in this entire world who I would not want to piss off, its DOD and the CIA.

This is one of the reasons why mastodon doesnt have re-boosts, only boosts and replies.

Both kbin and lemmy utilize parts of the activitypub protocol - a generic way for different social media sites to talk to one another - to make a reddit-like functionality. This means that regardless of whether you are on a server which uses lemmy or kbin, they can access and use each other. The only real difference for users is going to be the UI and that kbin has also used activitypub to give its users some dedicated mircoblogging capabilities (think mastodon). My advice is: if you are only interested in a reddit-like experience then use the one with the UI and community you perfer, but if you want an all-in-one account (and are okay with the added complexity that comes with) kbin is closer to what you want.

Out of the handful of good things CNN did, demonstrating the failure of libertarianism and getting r/jailbait banned is near the top.

I would also suggest starting communities! The bystander effect is strong, dont worry about things too much right now as everything is still relatively small.

To get these in front of the devs, you could open an issue in the lemmy-ui repo: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues

Oh, yeah I guess that would be an instance admin thing cause mine has a whole bunch in that settings box. Let them know that “undetermined” needs to be included as an selectable language.

On the web interface, go to your account settings and out of all the languages selected; ensure that “undefined” is one of them. You can select multiple languages by holding down the “control” key and clicking. For example, right now I have both “english” and “undefined” as the languages I use.