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Ouch. Dude.

If the Reddit admins weren’t deleting every post and comment about Lemmy, possibly there would be an influx.

Ok, hear me out - what if both Spez and Elon are secretly fans of the fediverse, and are taking over the major social media sites and ruining them so that more people start using the fediverse?? What if that's been the plan all along???

Ahh, the old lemmyroo...

Ahh, so they're the new 9gag?

Cruelty is the point.

Memmy’s great. I think mlem has a lot of potential as well. I think we can do some fun stuff with it if we stick with it. There are a lot of creative things we can do once we get the core functionality built out and functioning, and then fine-tuned a bit. Once that’s good, then comes the fun part, in my opinion. But I’m a designer, so that’s where my mind goes. The little fun animations and the way the app reacts to your interactions, that we’ll be able to incorporate.

Apollo was great, but there’s also a lot of potential to do our own things, having used and learned from Apollo, and now knowing how different the fediverse and Lemmy are from Reddit.

Same here. I've been a fly on the wall seeing the development of mlem progressing super fast, and we (I'm tangentially involved) are going to be releasing a big update soon that improves the GUI tremendously. You can go over to [email protected] (or https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected]) to see what we're up to and to get the link to join the beta through TestFlight.

My question is... why would you want to? Those guys are dicks.

Same. I've already added Threads.net to my "Blocked Domains" list on Mastodon. Hoping to be able to do that with Lemmy as well.

Ok trying it out now… This is really coming along!

Sounds gross to me.

It’s not a permanent defederation, and it’s only with those two instances. There are still hundreds of other instances that they are still federated with.

So, the creators of Lemmy itself (and it's "home" instance lemmy.ml) are Marxist/Leninists (otherwise known as "tankies").

However, they have been smart enough to contain the most virulent tankie bullshit over in LemmyGrad.ml, which most big instances have specifically disconnected themselves from.

They also seem to be pretty hands-off in terms of censorship/banning/belittling "libs" on lemmy.ml and have kept it pretty open. For instance, I created a LeftistInfighting community and have been allowed to express anarchist views there. (I created it because I was immediately banned from LemmyGrad, which had its own LeftistInfighting community that I had the audacity to engage in and link to wikipedia in a comment)

The only resources you're gonna get on lemmygrad is a tutorial on how to be toxic.

They am Spain?

As a fellow former redditor who has figured this stuff out (kinda) in the last week here's my best gist of the situation:

Lemmy/Kbin are like reddit style interaction

Mastodon is Twitter style interaction

All three use the "ActivityPub" protocol, so all three can see posts and comments from all three systems.

Additionally, each system (Lemmy, Kbin, and Mastodon) can be hosted on "instances".

Instances are like "servers" that can be linked to other instances.

Talking about Lemmy/Kbin first:

You can pick a "home" instance and sign up for an account there (like you did with kbin.social). You can subscribe to all their local communities (like subreddits).

On Lemmy, you can also go to the "communities" page and then click the "all" tab" and you'll see all the communities from not only the local instance you're on, but it will also have links to all the communities from all the other instances that your instance is "federated" (linked) with. And you'll be able to subscribe to those communities as well.

What if you don't see the community from the other instance that you want to join? Just go to that other instance, grab the URL of that community, copy it and paste it into the search bar of your home instance, and that will create a link where you can click on it and subscribe to it.

To see what instances your instance is federated with, click the "instances" link in the bottom-right of every page.

On kbin, it looks like you have "magazines" that you can subscribe to. The search function behaves the same way as well.

Mastodon - if you're not into twitter, don't bother. But basically, it's twitter setup the same way, with instances instead of a server, and then you can follow other people from that instance or from other instances.

Mastodon also treats Lemmy/Kbin communities as if they're "people" so you can follow lemmy/kbin communities and comment in them using the twitter-like interface.

So, the thing about the federated system, is that the server loads are distributed among the different instances that are run by individuals. This way, no one instance gets too big to afford to sustain itself.

But yeah, basically donations are what any instance will likely be run off of. I'm sure there will be people trying to profit off of it somehow, by charging people for accounts, maybe, at some point. Or running ads, etc. But as it is right now, I believe the idea is to have this system be free and sustained through donations.

*edit: The best way to get an answer to a question is to confidently post an incorrect answer and let someone correct you. :)

They’re not going solo though. They are still connected to hundreds of other instances. Including Lemmy.ml, which is still the biggest instance.

You're literally posting from the account: [email protected]... I don't understand the issue?