Meeh, I’ll see what happens… though I would prefer to be on an instance that defederated as well.

no Federation with instances that use altered versions or proprietary versions of AP.

They will try and do this… they might opt to use hooks though… that way, they don’t have to disclose source… or will just disclose the changes that add more hooks. What will they be used for? I think we know.

I use Windows basically for work only. It’s just easier cuz everything is stacked against Microsoft products.

Or if I’m at home, I RDP to the PC at work and just use that.

I feel like a Linux desktop requires too much tinkering.

That is true, but some people just like to tinker.

Overall I love Linux. I love it in an environment where it’s directly supporting me and my hardware. I simply do not get that with my common gaming desktop.

That is somewhat the beauty of it. I don’t game, I just go to work and go home, so I have some free time to tinker and share what I have done/found/made.

I don’t game, but if I did, yes, I’d use Linux as my gaming platform. Just way more cuztomizable.

Yeah, there were a lot 🤔… and 2 instances dedicated to porn.

You don’t spit in your old well after you’ve dug a new one 😉.

You login via your Reddit account and it fetches your subscribed subs, you can suggest alternatives afterwards on the right 😉.

Yes, that seems to be the issue.

To be honest, with all the banning and defederation goin on on Lemmy right now, I really thought that it might be a feature now or that someone implemented custom code to make it a feature.

WTF 🤦…

Yeah, definitely switching instances. Thanks for the heads up man 👍 🤗.

The weird thing is, there are no upvotes or downvotes. I’ve been downvoted to oblivion before, it’s not news to me, it’s the lack of it that makes me think that.

Fuck it, I’ll switch instances again.

It’s because the snowflake liberal techies are the ones that are left using Lemmy now 🤷… sorry, but that’s the truth… the extreme right and left wingers are no better though, so that basically makes up of about 90% of the Lemmy userbase now. The normies are gone. They tried it, some got pissed about the bannings, some about defederation, some about instances going dark and they went back to reddit 🤷.

There also seems to be shadow banning now (though I have no idea how it’s done here on Lemmy). I posted this a few hours ago… no comments, no upvotes, no downvotes… this is the 2nd post that I get no replies on. I asked people on Lemmy if they could see it, some could, some couldn’t but none of them got the post on their feed.

And this basically means that I’d have to switch accounts again (the first few times were because instances went dark over night), because someone decided to shadow ban me for… god knows what reason 😒.

There was a peak, everyone enjoyed it, it was fun (for about 2 or 3 months)… then people started realizing this will probably never be a true place for niche stuff and started to go back to Reddit… plus mods started to abuse power, instances strted defederating in bulk whoever they see fit (which is not what the fediverse is all about… it should be a last resort 🤦), which of course pissed off users (let’s face it, if you’re on Reddit, you can see all of Reddit, not just parts of it). Now, there isn’t a single instance that isn’t defederated from at least one other instance. That and instances going dark over nigh (you go to sleep, can’t log in the next day, find out that your instance is lost in cyberspace)… yeah, that kinda tipped the scale for normies I think.

As I said, it’s good enough for techies, but normal users, nah… they want stability. They wanna be able to find a post that they posted 10 years ago and link to it. On Lemmy… there is no guarantee for that, especially if you’re on a smaller instance.

But over time, the communities I liked have faded as shitposting and meme communities have come to dominate the platform.

That is perfectly normal with almost any social media platform, forums included.

There seems to be more of a herd mentality now, where people downvote reasonable opinions they disagree with.

This seems to be because of the large number of US selfcentered liberals that decided to stick to the platform after the Reddit migration. There is no solution for that. Everyone has a voice on the internet.

The discussions don’t feel as nuanced.

Agreed.

Some people have even been attacked for innocuous comments that don’t align with the prevailing groupthink.

Mhm, keep going…

I want Lemmy to succeed, but right now I’m finding myself drawn back to Reddit because the niche communities there seem more active.

The dust settled down, most people moved back to Reddit. This was inevitable. Change is a hard thing for most people, even more so when you have to deal with a completely different set of rules and choices you previously had no control over (like choosing an instance).

I’ll keep checking in, but Lemmy needs to recapture its original spirit if I’m going to make it my main home.

Don’t mean to bust your balls, but this will probably never happen. There will be ups and downs in the user count on Lemmy and the fediverse, based on how bad the other commercial social media platforms are doing, but a significant spike?.. as with the Reddit migration?.. not likely. That was a one time thing, and it only happened because this was never tried before. Now that it has, this will likely not be a viable alternative for most people that want to migrate. Hosting my own seever, paying fees or doing it on a someone else’s server, just so that it goes down and takes down the content with it 🤨. Trust me, this is not an option most people are OK with. People like stability and sustainability (especially in niche communities, memes and shitpoats don’t need that at all) and that is one thing that the fediverse can’t give them… unless you host your own instance… but then you have to pay fees 😒.

Bottom line, Lemmy and the fediverse is good for tech enthusiasts, nothing more. If everyone on the planet knew how to configure and run a Linux server, docker and all that, 90% of TLDs were free, yes, it will most probably thrive, but if any of these conditions are not met… probably not.

No, I was, I really was looking forward to this place and it was pretty OK at the beginning, the first few months, but I did like a pause (some real world obligations) for a few months and I just started coming back, but things are… somewhat different from what I remember them. A lot of abuse of power by mods…

I found some things going in the right direction, like the no stupid questions comm, but other than that… seems like people have gotten more uptight and posh… if that makes any sense.

Yeah, to be honest, this is alredy happening with Lemmy, so I wasn’t surprised at all.

Geeks are usually the first ones that populate any kind of a social network.

But, I would have to agree that I don’t think that the fediverse will become anything more than what it is now - a place for geeks to exchange info and their Linux desktop setups.

This is mostly generalized, but I seriously doubt other communities will get popular on Lemmy, like let’s say DIY audio or something similar. They have a good thing going on reddit, free hosting, no one cares who actually pays the electricity bills, the platform is free (as in beer)… not everyone cares about freedom as much as people on the fediverse do 🤷. I’m sorry, but that’s just how things are.

On the other hand, Lemmy is a perfect place to share info and data that might be illegal in some countries (piracy and sharing pr0n vids that are sold on other sites), so i can see niche things like these thriving here… set up your server at home or in China/Russia, set up a reverse proxy… pratically, you’re off the grid regarding copyright claims.