Privacy is invisible. Being barred from content unless you pay is highly visible. Most people only really care about whether their end user experience is affected. People cared when their favourite apps got shut down, but they don’t really give a shit their data is sold. We’ve been so desensitized to having our data sold these days that most people have stopped caring.
Like the other person said, 99% of users never create communities anyway. I don’t really know what this read-only instance is meant to solve.
Yeah I feel the same way. I’m trying my best to curate my feed right now to minimise the amount of posts that make me want to not be alive.
That’s fair I guess. I remember that. That was around the same time as well, so someone registered to say Beehaw or Hexbear during the Threads fediverse announcement period would probably get the idea that federation wars is all that’s going, at least if they stopped visiting Lemmy shortly thereafter.
The analysis paralysis of having to pick an instance is definitely the biggest hurdle in my opinion. I don’t think a read-only instance is the solution though, at least not one that requires registration. That just adds another step, which I think would further confuse people. The simplest way to onboard new people is to just shove them onto the biggest instance, but I know that kind of goes against the ideology and creed of the fediverse. There were endless debates about it during the Reddit exodus of 2023.
Sync on Android. I’ll go down with the ship, I guess. If ljdawson never comes back I’ll be forced to look into other options eventually, but for now it still works, despite some bugs. It just looks and feels the best to me, and I’ve yet to find another app that can exactly replicate how I have it set up.
I didn’t know this existed, that’s a neat community. Might want to get the word out on !communitypromo@lemmy.ca
The only real federation dramas I can think of were relating to Hexbear and Beehaw. If Greenleaf was on one of those instances then maybe it could explain their skewed perspective. Otherwise yeah, I don’t get it.
What the fuck is “Magazines”
This but unironically. I could never get over it with Kbin and still can’t with Mbin. It’s a bad name for a community/sub and I’ll die on that hill. You can never get me to call a meme shitpost an “article” in a “magazine”.
Not sure, but I’d also like to know. Sounds like a great feature!
Thank you for keeping Lemmy lore alive, you’re doing god’s work.
I think you’re probably right about that. I’ve always said the next big migration will be when they turn off old.reddit, but perhaps they’ll be wise enough to blanket ban links to all the largest Lemmy instances by that point.
Has PixelFed done something different that Mastodon hasn’t?
I suspect image browsing is less reliant on specific content creators, so Pixelfed probably has an advantage there compared to something like Mastodon. You’re only going to move to Mastodon if the people you wanna follow are there too, while if you’re for example just looking to browse pictures of food and cats you don’t really care who is posting so you’re not as reluctant to try Pixelfed.
I don’t use either Instagram or Pixelfed though so might be totally off base here.
Has anyone here tried Loops? Does it have an algorithm and if so what’s it like? Any good?
Piped bot I believe it was called?
Nazi bars is a great practical example of the paradox of tolerance.
No mention of Blaze?
This fucker is still around eh? I remember him single-handedly sowing discord in c/politics around the time of the election with incessant pro 3rd party spam and insane tirades of sealioning - also report abuse if I remember right. Or at least taunting people into breaking rules and subsequently reporting them. I was amazed at the time that he was allowed to remain unbanned for ages in that sub when it was very clear what he was doing.
This would have been my suggestion as well. Cool instance, surely would be perfect for this.