Ooh. Interesting. Thanks. Might need to revisit. See if we can compete with office chairs, after all. Lol.

Do I detect a divide by zero joke? Nice!

This is hilarious, but I need facts.

All together, we (Lemmy) are hotter than oatmeal, but we’re less interesting than office chairs. (On Reddit).

There’s been talk of linking Luanti servers with Stargates. I’m not aware of anyone having a working mod for it but it should be doable.

Yeah. This guide is going to make some rounds in my peer group. I’ve got a lot of dissatisfied friends who just need an easy guide to remind them what to try. Very cool!

Mastodon seems to be filling this niche (professional networking and job seeking) at the moment. I’m curious if something more targeted is emerging yet as well.

Yeah. I think we’re waiting for the kind of installers and updaters that WordPress achieved before we see typical businesses running their own Mastodon server.

But I do think many organizations have got the risk/reward wrong, by underestimating the risk, at the moment.

Yeah. I’m surprised businesses haven’t been quicker to setup self-hosted Mastodon as their primary, and then mirror that to Twitter and Bluesky and such, for disaster recovery protection.

Mastodon doesn’t by design, so they’re gonna have a much, much harder time there.

In theory, yes. But what early switching folks are reporting is that the total impressions are much lower on Mastodon, but the total engagement is much higher, for the same effort.

Which is confusing unless we factor in what we know about Twitter farming bot account on purpose to create an inflated appearance of success.

Of course, there’s still the matter of Twitter genuinely has orders of magnitude more users. So as an either/or proposition, no way does it, yet, make sense to ditch Twitter for Mastodon.

But for the value-to-reach ratio, with the same effort applied to both, anyway, Mastodon is actually already a better value than Twitter.

All that to say, yeah, Twitter is better, purely due to the user base, and Mastodon’s algorithm actually treats creators better. Which we kind of already knew, as it was created by people fed up with Twitters abusive algorithms.

I don’t think there’s anything in the Fediverse meant to support the family updates use case.

We use giant SMS text message threads for that.

For more privacy, we get everyone to use Signal or XMPP with OMEMO.