I think we are a long, long ways off before we could even get to the ‘could’ phase of the discussion, let alone asking if we should.

Yeah that’s what I read thanks for expounding, it’s definitely not good as somebody who also uses stackoverflow pretty commonly

Yeah they definitely need to do something to make that federation a bit more pleasant haha

Well i know mods at stackoverflow were wanting to mutiny because the owners wanted to start incorporating AI responses to questions posted there or something like that

Well now I have to call them toots, way more fun haha

I’ve never heard of the term eternal september until now, that’s pretty neat. Makes me wonder what 1980s usenet groups/conversations looked like. I wonder if DOS or other OS’s at the time had a navigable interface for it

I don’t use mastodon, but it would be cool if they found a way to display so that the top level topic would be a tweet and the comments would be like reply tweets to it (I don’t know what the mastodon equivalent to tweet is)

That’s the impression I got from the devs and admins here, but I’m not certain my impressions are correct or what kind of impact external users posting to beehaw communities impacts beehaw’s instance

I haven’t completely left, and to be honest the only way I’d completely leave is if the niche communities I cared about died (or were active here). That being said I’ve noticed my reddit usage has plummeted over the last week. I used to basically live on that dumb site and now I only check it maybe once or twice a day for a couple minutes

Well kbin.social and beehaw.org have both gotten the hug of death over the last 25 minutes so that’s fun haha. Might have to hop over to a smaller instance to spread the load out

I have front end and back end experience but work has me kind of bogged down lately. If nobody has stepped up by Sunday I should be free to start taking a look at it at the very least.

lemmy.ml probably won’t because it’s kind of the de-facto default instance where the devs can communicate to everyone. You’re best bet is to create an account on an instance that blocks lemmygrad (like Beehaw that was mentioned, i’m sure others do as well)

Is it possible to message on mastodon and peertube with lemmy (or is it only through kbin currently)? I was trying to figure out how that worked but had some difficulty

Most of my twitter engagement comes from links on reddit funny enough (usually sports related). There’s still a few people im interested in following as well so i’ll poke my head in here and there. But yeah i certainly don’t blame people for leaving the platform entirely. I just try to steer clear of the toxic stuff (which is very tough if you spend longer than 5 minutes on it)

Musk set a goal of making half of Twitter’s revenue subscription-based, but his revamped Twitter Blue subscription service got off to a slow start. As the NYT report said, reversing the decline in advertising “is crucial because ads have long made up 90 percent of the company’s revenue.”

Well it looks like he’s well on his way to succeeding in that goal if the ad revenue keeps dropping

Around then I feel is when spam bots on the site started to become really rampant too. I could be mistaken though

This is a cop out answer. I tried Jerboa but wasn’t a big fan. That may change in the future. But I feel currently the best way to experience Lemmy on your phone is to do the following:

1. Install the firefox app from the app store
2. Go to your Lemmy instance on firefox
3. press the 3 dots (where you can view bookmarks, history, etc) and click on “Add to Home screen”

When you click on the Lemmy icon that’s added to your home screen on your phone, it will open up the Lemmy web app (seperate from the firefox browser). It works super nice on mobile from my experience so far, and has a sleek design.

While we’re on the subject, how does federating work with a new instance? Like if i created one do i just send a request to the bigger instances to link with them? Part of me is considering starting one up for friends and family and linking to instances/communities that we care about accessing. That way we have control over our own accounts and such and have a little hub to post our own stuff with each other.