From the outside looking in, the whole model seemed needlessly complicated. So it’s like there’s a LOT of reddit.coms over here? But they’re all the same? But also different? What’s the difference? Which one do I sign up on?

But then I get here and realized it doesn’t really matter that much, since you can more or less use all of them regardless of which one you sign up for.

Something about the way users try to communicate what Lemmy/Fediverse IS, is the complicated part. It’s like everyone wants to jump straight to the more technical details behind how the model works; which probably scares off a lot of the people who just want a place to pop in and talk about their hobbies.

“Haha, so true”, I think to myself, as I sit and stare at my phone

What’s a fuck feather

Definitely After Effects for the second one, but I’m lost on the first one?? Visual Studio was my first thought; but I’m assuming it’s video editing software. Vegas Pro is the only video editor I can even think of that starts with a V???

security monitor

Best analogy I’ve heard is to think about email. I’m using gmail, maybe someone else uses yahoo, and maybe a third person has their own mail server set up at home. We can all send each other emails, and the content of the emails will largely look the same, despite that none of us are accessing it through the same site.

Another example; since you’re over on kbin; I’m on Lemmy.world right now. I can still see your posts and comments and you can still see mine as though we’re both browsing the same website.

Why is that important? Basically it keeps any one person like Spez from having complete and total control over the entire “site”. Since the “website” is actually a lot of websites made to act like one big one; each individual site has its own server, admins, etc. and if one goes down, or has admins that go on a power trip; it won’t totally ruin the experience for everyone on the fediverse; just that one server.

Mine is waiting till a few apps start to hit the App Store before she tries it. I think once a handful of the more polished apps start to make it out of their test flights, we’ll start to see another decent sized migration over here.

This is the way

I was curious how long it’d be before someone did something like this. The wires and components in Terraria seemed a lot more sophisticated than the Redstone in Minecraft to me, and I’ve seen some crazy shit done in Minecraft.

Windows is the only operating system I’ve used that I’ve never had this problem with before.

All that is to say, it sounds complicated, but none of that stuff really matters unless you care about the tech behind it. For the end user like you and me, you just gotta pick a site and make an account, and it works pretty seamlessly. At least it should, the devs are seeing some growing pains right now as registrations ramp up and cause things to break. But hopefully that stuff will get worked out with a little time.

Gotta say, I thought it sounded a lil complicated at first. I’d heard ‘Lemmy.world’ mentioned a few times, so I came over and signed up…. And that’s it. There wasn’t anything complicated at all. Been here a few days now and loving it so far.

This is probably my favorite analogy for it so far, at least as a high level overview. I kind of made the same connection myself and that’s when it clicked for me.

Suddenly I’m remembering MySpace back in the good ol days when you could do all SORTS of customization to your profile. Now I want a Fediverse version of THAT.

Did you ever play Glover? When I think “weird n64 games” I think Glover.

Ford Mustangs for me

I was one of those mole people for a while before I made the jump to Reddit, and it was equally bizarre to me as an Imgur user that other Imgur users would get mad about all the Reddit content there. Like… that’s the whole POINT of this place isn’t it??

I love that everyone saying Windows feels like they gotta justify why they’re using it lol. I’m running Windows 10 on my desktop and Windows 11 on my laptop.

A server is just a computer, right? It runs some specialized software to host a website. Anytime you go to visit a webpage, you’re making a request to the server that hosts that webpage. In response, the server will dig through its files, find the webpage you’re requesting, and send that page back to you. Some requests might be more complicated than that. All of the comments you see on a thread, for example, may be contained in a database somewhere. So the request could be; “hey, sort through ALL of the thousands of comments in your database, find the ones that are supposed to be on THIS thread, and send those back to my computer so my browser can show them.” Computers are fast, but they can only do so much at a time. Think about how your phone or computer works totally fine if you’re just playing a game; but how it may slow down if you have tons and tons of games and programs open. This is kind of the same thing. A server may work fine if it’s getting 100 requests a day. But then if you suddenly start sending 100,000 requests to it a day, that may be to much for it. It’s trying to do too much at once, and it will start to slow way down. That’s what people mean by “server load”. It’s basically “how much the server is trying to do all at once.”

Cuz “Fedier” is a terrible name.