It seems it shut down over Kbin developments. I guess it could have done its users a favour by changing to Mbin, but still… Fair enough. I’m hopeful :)

That’s great!!

I love PieFed - hopefully this instance will be a success! It’s nice to see something other than the flagship. PieFed seems pretty flexible, so it’ll be fun to see what another instance makes of it.

I would warmly recommend checking it out!
(That’s https://feddit.online and https://piefed.social)

I guess a large part why I liked them was that I was really only active on one or maximum two, and I was happy just embracing the community there. It was also in my native language rather than in English, which feels excotic in retrospect.

Great post!

I would be curious to know how many people on here have found memories from BBcode-style forums.

Personally I kinda skipped web 2.0 - I had some accounts, sure, but I hardly interacted with anything else than direct messaging. However I used to hang out on phpBB for probably hours every day before Facebook took over, having been lured in by needing help progressing in Pokémon on my GameBoy Advance.

I guess I’m a minority around here in never having used Reddit much. But I’m wondering if we’re, in general, a bunch of ageing nerds who are nostalgic to web 1.0, or if we’re a more diverse bunch than that. ;)

Edit:
Oh, and speaking of nostalgia, I’m sad LemmyBB is not maintained any more! It makes perfect sense that it isn’t of course, but what a blast it would be.

Initially I was convinced Biden had the right intentions, and somehow I still like to believe he does. But his political weakness in this conflict is inexcusable, and will hang as a dark cloud over his legacy.

Flipboard’s Dot Social is pretty great: @dot_social@flipboard.video

It’s a bit hard to imagine the fediverse crowd being huge on a tiktok-like platform. I think it’s an important development, even just as a proof of concept, but it would have to attract an audience from a whole different target audience, and one that might have less patience for technical hiccups.

I think video content is also fundamentally more asymmetrical - from a few influencers to a large number of consumers. Which is probably what the fediverse is heading towards as well, but it’s not what it does best at the moment.

I don’t think I’m the target audience of this, and I’m not sure it’ll be a success. But I think it’s a very interesting and important development anyway.

Probably more realistic, I was just working out of the premise that history would repeat itself.

Little more than four years from now, the insurrectionist crowd will be chanting “hang JD Vance”. And JD Vance will chant along.

Does anyone know if he has given any sign of life the last few months?

I think you missed the joke.

(Also, regarding trees on Easter island, it’s a popular theory, but if I remember correctly it has been a bit debunked in recent years)

I get where he’s coming from. As a childless dog man you’re bound to gets bit of a cold sweat when your fascist party starts going after the childless cat ladies.

Sure, for now it’s women that they hate. But he knows he’s next.

They’d get busy: The creator of Phanphy also maintains a list of github repos named after Pokemon.

That’s great!

It’s a nice user interface, made by @cheeaun@mastodon.social, and loved by a lot of people.

If you don’t want to trust people with your account details that’s fine - then using a third party app is probably not for you, unless you’re willing to either trust people or dig into the source code.

If you have Mastodon you can just try it?

It’s a Mastodon client. It has many neat features. I like it on desktop because it’s easy to navigate with my keyboard. It’s also great on phone. Overall pleasant, Mastodon users should try it out. But I feel like describing it at length is not really productive - it’s a user interface.

I’d say pretty much all of those are worth a look!

Personally I’m curious how Bonfire and the Open Science Network will develop. Bandwagon also seems to have a lot of potential.

Would be curious to hear if anyone have tried using Quiblr! It’s not really for me I think, but it does look like an interesting service.

Questionable conservativism

Is there any other kind.

Vance once admitted that working class Americans benefit from Democrat policies

Not saying it, but admitting it. They all know it; you’re just not supposed to admit it. Lol.

The EU at least is still sticking around, which is cool.

I have to say I’m a believer in slow growth here. It wouldn’t be good if one Mastodon server completely dominated; neither would it be good if Mastodon as a software was the only viable alternative. Right now we’re in a great spot where a bunch of different solutions are being developed.

I think this development is healthy, and it be depends on slower more organic growth. And it might not be a linear process, but eventually I believe activitypub integration will be as obvious as having an RSS feed. Doesn’t matter much if it takes a while to get there.

On that note it would be good if governments didn’t just sometimes use Mastodon, but rather integrate activitypub into their actual web sites.

I just mentioned them because they’re microblog sites, so in theory they do the exact same thing as Mastodon. The number of Mastodon users doesn’t matter; the number of people on Fediverse platforms compatible with Mastodon matters.

So Lemmy users are not very helpful, but Mbin users maybe more so. Or Friendica.

The point is just that the number of Mastodon users is, in theory, irrelevant, as you don’t just communicate with Mastodon users. Maybe misskey was a bad example, I don’t know anything about it.