Fair point

Every day the call of the high seas gets stronger.

I think a surefire way to help with this would be to have a rule that any instance that becomes the largest one on Lemmy should lock itself instantly. That way, we’ll only surpass the current max number of users on a single instance until it’s completely spread out

Nomadic identity is so cool! That’s the one big thing ATProto has over ActivityHub atm (at least partially0, and hopefully platforms like Piefed will also follow suit on implementing it.

No peaceful end of term, maybe. They might have to find out January 6th doesn’t just come once, and it doesn’t always have to be at the Capitol.

Have you DMed for any other systems, and how was it?

I’ve heard people mention Wafrn as a Tumblr alternative, but haven’t checked it out myself.

Heil five!

!sillydrawingrequests@sopuli.xyz is one of my favourites so far

This is the video that led me to actually start taking a hard look at social media (I was already off of Instagram, but that was almost unconscious in that I just started loathing the app), and led me down the rabbit hole that eventually led me to Lemmy!

Inb4 they start making tiktoks about ignoring the calming music

Even if it’s just links, taking the time to find them yourself and post them is a useful step, since relevant doesn’t always mean insightful or interesting.

Also, you’re not completely tied to links. Make/ask for recommendations, life pro tips, etc.

This is such a well written piece, it’s closer to a serious article than a blogpost

I was right there as well. I saw creators I trust putting out stuff talking about the state of social media today (Technology Connections on YouTube in particular) and that was around when I started diving back into bluesky, then after a little more reading around, mastodon and lemmy. Never looked back after that.

Oh, that’s really cool! Thanks

Considering what brought me here, I’ll take finicky over maliciously designed any day. :)

Ah, I see. Thanks!

I remember reading a book that talked about public spaces and how we often think of malls as public spaces, but they have so many restrictions and ulterior motives that it doesn’t really hold.

They’re essentially the irl equivalent of centralised social media platforms. I hope once the fediverse really takes off, we can have ‘official’ platforms/instances that are run by governments that federate only to other ‘official’ ones. That seems like a better way to reach people, instead of Xitter.