Yeah and it’s also too much effort for communities to band together around it every year. Someging that requires this much effort from communities should remain once every 5 years, otherwise they’ll stop participating.

Not that it even matters at this point :(

PC, mostly because I like KB+M. And if it’s a game that uses a controller, I have the steam deck.

Yeah don’t know if you’ve been keeping up with what’s happening on Twitter, but Nitter doesn’t work anymore

Ok but I don’t post on twitter. I only view posts on Twitter, and they’re pretty much all from relatively big people. So before I can move away, the people with big follower counts needs to move first. The only people on Mastodon that I follow are tech people. All the other people are on Twitter, Threads, or have just straight up left twitter altogether.

Yeah but it’s true. It’s better to ensure Republicans don’t win than try to get your third party in. The problem is not the mindset of the people, it’s the first past the post voting system. If they used ranked choice voting instead, it wouldn’t be a problem.

Yeah that’s probably the better one, lemmy.ml probably isn’t the best place for the communities

Most of the world likely doesn’t use SMS anymore

That has not been the case from what I’ve seen (I’m Australian). The only widespread methods of communication I see are SMS and iMessage. Things like Discord and Instagram are only used among younger people.

Edit: Actually people do use Facebook messenger. Don’t know how many though

Right, but even non-reddit users would be confused by it. When everyone advertises lemmy as seamlessly integrating with all the different instances, it doesn’t matter what instance your account is on, this definitely is not that.

What? Defederating doesn’t fix that.

1. Meta doesn’t join the fediverse
2. Meta introduces convenient, cool and innovative features not originally on fediverse code
3. Everyone wants new features, but features are locked under propietary code.
4. Everyone flocks to meta’s product.
5. Meta is now the fediverse and the fediverse is nothing but a husk of its former self

The solution is 1: to make sure users understand that it’s a bad idea to flock to meta’s instance, and 2: to implement that feature in the fediverse if everyone likes it so much they’re willing to leave. The solution is not defederating now because of the posibbilty that they do that in the future.

At least we’ll have Memmy and Artemis

Yeah but now that it has it people aren’t going to leave. We need the alternatives to be good before they leave, they can’t migrate now and have it be good later.

There’s not really any good alternative for large communities. The amount of tools available on Discord in the form of bots is so useful, any other platform they move to needs to have that as well.

Surprised r/programming went dark, considering its got multiple admins moderating it. I didn’t think they would, and they didn’t mention anything before I left

Yeah honestly I stopped browsing AskReddit because of that. And I don’t think it was necessarily entirely the commenters’ fault, I think it was that the questions have gotten worse over time.

AskReddit is still up, despite the number of posts I’ve seen on the subreddit asking for it to join.