Compassion >~ Thought
Not just that, but “Reuters and CNBC reported it” as well. It snowballed from X to mainstream news then back to X again and back to people talking in “reputable” news again, again and again.
At this point I’m wondering just how much if any that mainstream for-profit media is any better than X at reporting anything at all.
Not me - how do I go there, I really want to go there!? 😶
“I don’t fight in other people’s races.”
Implies that my fighting is done strictly at my own behest:-).
Control over what messages can be removed?
It also has yet to be tested at the very large scale of tens of thousands of users per instance. Then again, Lemmy itself may not work at the high end of that scale either, and PieFed sends roughly 25-fold less data per post (which is more a feature affecting the end-users rather than how beefy the instance admins need to make their servers to run PieFed software). It will be a nice challenge when we come to that.:-)
In the meantime, I use PieFed as my daily driver, handling ~99% of my Threadiverse traffic, and I am quite happy with it. Lemmy has fewer features but those that exist feel more “polished”, while PieFed goes beyond what Lemmy offers in so many important ways, which demonstrates how much the dev actually LISTENS to the user base - unlike e.g. Mastodon - and that is so crucial!
And yes, agreed about your two additional points as well - I hope they never get burnt out!:-)
That is a heart-warming story, thanks for sharing!:-)
Do you mind if I ask what you found that made you happy? Without doxing yourself obviously. Small tech?
I need to make some decisions of my own soon…
Well, there truly is a trickle down effect there: there is only one Reddit, but there are many instances running Reddit 2.0 Lemmy, and several running Mbin or PieFed instead. So as a user, if you do not like Reddit, there aren’t really any good alternatives (read a book, Twitter/X or like Bluesky or Mastodon or GameFAQs or such, maybe touch grass, etc.:-), but if you do not enjoy a Lemmy, you can shuffle over to another one, or even start your own.
What I said above is just the beauty of any generic Free and Open Source Software to run or be a user on a forum, but beyond that, the Federation model of sharing content via the ActivityPub protocol allows you to work with the identically same data from the new place as you would have from the old - more or less. e.g. if you get booted from Lemmy.ml and make a lemmy.world account then you could access the same communities on lemmy.ml, with the new account (although being careful this time not to cross the unwritten rules, including for ban evasion). Moving from Reddit to X doesn’t allow that, but moving from a Lemmy instance to another Lemmy, or Mbin or PieFed, does.
So there is that tiny amount of freedom, which nonetheless still sets it apart from corporate non-FOSS Reddit, by virtue of the Federation model:-). The Fediverse software is quite resource intensive, depending on amount of network utilization, but widely considered to be better than isolated forum software for this reason of its interconnectedness:-).
You cannot. You never could. The difference that the Fediverse makes is that you can make your own instance.
In fact, in many ways Lemmy is even more authoritarian than Reddit, this is basically a Reddit 2.0. Here there is a modlog, but no modmail, no notification of a moderation action, no ability to ask questions as to why (if only so that you can avoid doing so again?), especially when the modlog merely says that the action was done by a “mod” (so even if there were a moderator chat somewhere, usually on Discord or Matrix since they don’t bother discussing on Lemmy itself, or you wanted to send a DM, who would you send it to, unless you send it to literally all, thereby risking getting yourself getting banned from the entire instance for legitimately spamming DMs, bc no other means are provided to you!?).
Edit; I’ve been waiting since the Rexodus nearly two years ago for any of this to be fixed. Do you want to know what all has happened during that time? I’ll warn you: it’s actually worse than nothing, and instead it has actively taken steps backwards. Previously the mod account name was reported in the modlog, so you could DM the one who took the action against your content, whereas now that information has been hidden from you. This is the opposite of “transparency”, a hallmark of democratic features of governance.
On lemmy.ml, people routinely get instance-wide banned from communities that they’ve literally never even so much as heard of!? More importantly, for a rule that is never written down anywhere or explained to new users - don’t ever criticize the authoritarian regimes of Russia, China, or North Korea (perhaps soon the USA will be added to that list). On midwest.social numerous people have been banned merely for downvoting posts or comments offered by the instance admin, or for submitting reports (not spamming, just one) literally calling out cries for (not against) murder - ideological purity testing is real there. Meanwhile back on lemmy.ml, I can point you (if interested) to an actual conversation where a moderator tells a user that he wants to kill him - but ofc he is protected by the instance admins so nothing will ever be done about such occurrences, which for that mod I believe are somewhat well-known.
Now you understand, the “freedom” that the Fediverse offers is not extended to the users, but rather to the instance owners - i.e. the landlords rather than renters. If you want that freedom, you have to start your own server.
Or join one that offers it downwards to its users. PieFed offers MANY features facilitating democratization of moderation. Discuss.Online, a Lemmy instance, is quite well-known for allowing freedom to its userbase (though being located in the USA… for how much longer?). There are others - these are just ones that I definitely know about and recommend.
TLDR: you cannot and never could, that’s a misunderstanding of the concept of the Fediverse, though there is potential to make freedom happen here, unlike Reddit where it’s a lost cause from the start.
Yeah I was excited about Kbin.social as well, both for not being developed by political extremists and for having more capabilities. However, like you I never ended up using that whole microblogging style bc I simply prefer the Threadiverse format so much more.
PieFed is indeed developing FAST! But there are minor to moderate annoyances while trying to use it so yeah, I understand people not being ready for that yet. Fwiw, if you were just wanting to avoid being on the server that uses the bleeding edge codebase (PieFed.social), there are a few others, namely https://feddit.online/ (for the list of others see here: https://join.piefed.social/try/, with additional information at https://piefed.fediverse.observer/list).
It’s fantastic to have choices, whether we decide on PieFed, Mbin, or Lemmy to meet our needs on the (Threadi-)Verse!:-)
Lemmy, Mbin, and now PieFed!
It is indeed a nice bump. Although we’ve been here before, I guess reaching a peak of almost 56k MAU last March, before it fell down to 43k at the end of last year.
The trick will be to see if people stay… vs. going back to Reddit, or perhaps Bluesky. PieFed gives me strong hopes for that. Lemmy offers smaller hopes and more for medium-term as they start to catch up with even half of those new features in 1.0 on their roadmap (edit: by which time PieFed will have far eclipsed its feature set, plus offering far less “Reddit 2.0”, authoritarian style moderation in favor of democratization where the users themselves control their personal experiences using the same community structure; although the real test will be how well PieFed handles scaling to more users), but it too is still loads better than enshittified platforms.
A 15% increase in the last two weeks, wow. Half-year view
Perhaps especially after this.