Coelacanth

Anyone up to date on the Iceshrimp .NET rewrite? It looks like it’s sort of up and running from the GitHub page, but they don’t run a flagship instance themselves. Is there any instance up and running it at the moment?

Nicotine has deep claws, that’s for sure. I wasn’t even a particularly heavy smoker and I still get a craving sometimes even coming up on ten years since I quit. Hell, I have the occasional dream about smoking still.

Watching the US implode under the combined pressure of greed, corruption, incomprehensible idiocy and incompetence would almost be amusing if its global importance didn’t threaten to pull the rest of us down with it like a boat anchor chain tangled around the ankles of a drowning man.

LW are hesitant to do major changes because if something goes wrong it disrupts the entire Lemmy ecosystem. It’s a direct negative consequence of them growing too big, but once they’re in this position I can understand their reservations. I too wish they’d implement upgrades faster but I have no reason to believe they will just refuse to implement an upgrade forever, that’s unreasonable to assume.

Lemmy.nz is what, about 100 MAU? And I know a Blåhaj admin is Australian but Fedi Observer has the server listed as based in Finland and hosted in Germany. Don’t know if that’s wrong though. Are their users also reporting delays?

Even so, .world will eventually enable parallel sending, and even in the meantime aussie.zone only boasts 375 MAUs. I empathize with their plight but it’s what, 0.6% of the Lemmy userbase? I don’t know that such a miniscule minority is worth bending over backwards for and creating further fragmentation.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for choosing instances other than .world when setting up new comms. They’re too big. But while we’re still at a point where content amount is the primary concern and we’re trying to achieve critical mass I also don’t know if endless fragmentation is well advised.

Funny how that works. Wonder if not mentioning it will help remedy that?

The fediverse, also known as the open social web that includes Mastodon, Meta’s Threads, Pixelfed, and other apps (…)

Mention Lemmy for once 😠

I agree. For stuff like Mastodon and Loops I really want “For You”, not a simple chronological feed.

I know this is a contentious topic around here but what’s the news of Loops’ recommendation algorithm? Does it have one?

I absolutely love your spoon idea, but you are like the 1% of pranksters. I have never, ever witnessed or been subjected to a prank that lets the victim join in the fun. It’s always been solely fun at someone else’s expense, ending in laughing and/or pointing at someone.

People trying to make others look foolish with mean spirited jokes and outright lies and then pointing and laughing at them has never been fun.

But maybe that’s me being autistic that I don’t get it.

The Voynich manuscript is such a fascinating thing.

That’s kind of a trend on the Fediverse to be honest. Mastodon has the same problem with their chronological-only feed.

I looked through her page and prefer this to her later works I think. But I am a true sucker for that end of the 1800s time period.

I quite like that actually. I wasn’t familiar with her.

Mastodon users can subscribe to Lemmy communities I think, but it doesn’t really work very well. The Mastodon feed isn’t really made to support threaded content so all the Lemmy comments will fill and mess up your feed.

Mastodon and Lemmy have only limited interoperability. You can’t follow individual users on Lemmy, so most of it is one-way. Mastodon users can post to Lemmy communities by @-ing a specific community, and Lemmy users can then reply as normal and their replies will show up in the Mastodon users feed.

In general I think that backlash against algorithms went the wrong way. We poured the baby with the water.

I agree. As long as the microblogging side of the Fediverse has only a chronological feed I can’t see myself engaging with it. Mastodon just demands way too much work from the user for what the payoff is, at least to me.

I can appreciate not wanting to create a new account for the purposes of creating a community somewhere else, but a lot of people outright refuse to engage in communities on .ml these days due to their moderation policies. It’s a shame, but I can understand it. Also, this type of initiative sounds like it’s made for being hosted on TTRPG.network instead.

I think mapping existing subreddits to Fediverse equivalents is a great idea and would be very helpful to have as a resource. Sub.Rehab did something to that nature, although I don’t think it’s being maintained anymore sadly.