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Yep.

https://fosstodon.org/@altstore/112848967951001360

The moment they fix the search, fix their recommendations, stop wasting money on junk projects like games and allow me to completely disable Shorts, I will resubscribe to YT Premium.

Slightly off topic, but starting 2025 they’re going to stop providing quarterly subscriber numbers to focus on “other metrics” related to revenue and growth.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/netflix-to-stop-providing-subscriber-numbers-1235877111/

It’s 50% off right now.

Ease of use.

With your one Discord account you join all the servers you care about and interact with online/IRL friends.

There are downsides that people at Lemmy will find dealbreaking and I absolutely agree with them, but the convenience of it being a chat, forum (almost), voice/video calling and gaming platform for free with (currently) no ads triumphs all of that for the majority of people, and that’s what makes it popular. It’s also cross-platform so no one’s left out.

There’s Pixelfed which is a fediverse alternative to Instagram, but I don’t use it currently as I don’t share my photography online as LCP.

Peertube is a YouTube alternative but I’m not using that currently as well.

Other than them, there are other fediverse platforms that are basically Mastodon-like or Lemmy-like.

Things are fairly wonky right now, but I believe with time, effort and funding many if not all of the fediverse’s issues can be resolved.

Which Lemmy communities are you a part of that are currently tiny? I can lend a hand in posting/commenting there and keeping them active.

For Mastodon, you gotta find the hashtags about the things you care about.

For Lemmy, you gotta put in the work to raise the communities you care about. If there are existing communities, post and comment in them. If there isn’t a community about your interest - and if you’re willing - create and maintain them. The people will come.

I’m all in on the fediverse, and want to watch it flourish.

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The small “LCP” I made to the right of the Aphex Twin logo survived yayyyy 😎

Converted it to B&W to make it look like silver:

This post was at the top of Mastodon’s explore page yesterday: https://mas.to/@kissane/110793942888550843

I feel it perfectly encapsulates the issues I see others and I face with Mastodon. Since it was #1 trending, it probably resonated with many more too.

The technical issues can eventually solved. The cultural ones? That’s the big question.

Lemmy seems far more approachable. It has its issues, but at least it has a working search.

It requires a bit of work, since there isn’t an algorithm to do that for you.

I’ve been following hashtags for things I enjoy. #gaming, #videogames, #steamdeck, #android, etc.