@Judeet99
> Did you use a butter knife for the butter and a separate knife for the other spreads? This is important

Indeed. I cleaned the knife in between each spreads, so while it was technically the same knife, it was metaphysically a new knife each time.

@dull_mens_club

@fell
> Turns out Honey Chicken is a purely Australian invention

Like butter chicken from Indian restaurants ... in the anglophone world only, apparently. What is with us anglophones and our propensity for consuming jungle fowl in yellowish fluids?

@FoxtrotDeltaTango

@verity_kindle
> My bread machine just died after years of faithful service. Miss it immensely

Sorry for your loss. I know it's insensitive to ask whether you'll replace it. Too soon. But I do want to reassure you that you'll taste fresh bread again one day, when you're ready : P

@realcaseyrollins
> Reddit was already toxic, but I guess now people will begin to recognize its toxicity

... just like Titter.

@Alkalyon @Bicyclejohn

@DaisyLee
> What are the best fediverse alternative to the big sites on the web?

Which ones are the best is a matter of taste, but this page gives you an idea which of the corporate DataFarms the various fedi apps can be a replacement for:

https://joinfediverse.wiki/What_are_Fediverse_projects%3F/Fancy

@theory
> Is there a good fedi or p2p alternative to twitch?

#OwnCast was designed specifically for this:

https://owncast.online/

#PeerTube also has livestreaming capabilities, as well as being able to host recordings of livestreams for future playback after they're over:

https://joinpeertube.org/

There's also #GreatApe, which is entering beta and looking for testers:

https://calckey.social/notes/9f468lwk06

#video #LiveStreaming

RE: https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/@strypey/116001132928858844

"Besides forum-equivalent functionality, PieFed also offers ... Question and answers similar to StackOverflow where an answer can be visually distinguished as an answer, and the original question marked as solved."

@piefedadmin, 2026

https://join.piefed.social/2026/02/11/piefed-as-a-discord-alternative/

Funny, I was just recently bemoaning the lack of a federated Q&A and suggesting adding ActivityPub support to Apache Answers;

#PieFed #QA #StackOverflow #ApacheAnswers

@rimu @_elena @cwicseolfor @skinnylatte

@itadakimasu
Plus, the Lemmy servers are part of a much larger network; the fediverse. Not just other forum apps like KBin either. Right now I'm replying to this from Mastodon.

I have an alt on a .nz Lemmy server, but haven't got into the habit of using it yet. So at least some of the perceived shrinkage *is* due to that, rather than any failure of the network. Also due to spam and troll accounts being purged.

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@Blaze @Kushan @patatahooligan

Seems I was going off half-cocked, out of an overabundance of caution. #MeaCulpa. I thought it would be worse if I ignored my strypey-senses tingling and said nothing, then it turned out it was compromised.

We need to be cautious in this age of copious vibe coding;

https://forum.f-droid.org/t/f-droid-policy-on-libre-ai/

I do think @fdroid crew need to do due diligence when apps appear to be abandoned, then revived. They probably do, but any links to policies and processes on this would be a great way to put my mind at rest.

@Bicyclejohn
> my peers are too tiktok obsessed

What is it that attracts them to TikTok? The features and user experience, or the pool of people and content they can find there? Or something else?

@knighthawk0811
> can we get young people coming here though

That's a very good question to ask a young person. OTTOMH though...

... anything they have to use at school, they're unlikely to use by choice at home or elsewhere. What would have got me to join the fediverse if it existed when I was a young person? Hearing that someone I respected had joined like Upper Hutt Posse, or Michael Franti, or RATM, or even David Bowie. Pop poets are the vanguard party of the young.

@Bicyclejohn

@knighthawk0811
> since there isn't any strong way to collect data or advertise it will always be an underdog compared to big business

... unless and until democratic governments ban corporations from spying on the people using their platforms, as they bloody well ought to, if they have any respect for the human rights of the citizens. Or pass laws that force the Walled Gardens to federate with similar platforms, like the Digital Markets Act.

@Bicyclejohn

@itadakimasu
> there’s only 60k of us? And that’s a good thing?

A centralised platform is a numbers game. The money for upgrading servers for growth has to come from one company, and if the platform shrinks it gets harder to get a return on that spending.

It just doesn't matter as much in a federated network. The cost of growth is spread across many servers. Some of which will end up shutting down, for a range of reasons. But others have room for growth.

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@Blaze @Kushan @patatahooligan

@lackthought
> I was just looking at Matrix, are there community servers like on discord people can join? or is it all private rooms?

There are loads of public rooms on matrix, eg:
https://matrix.to/#/#fediverse-city:matrix.org

FYI what Discord calls a "server" is actually just a group of chat channels and their pool of members. The equivalent of a Discord "server" on matrix is a "Space". This blog post is a couple of years old out-of-date, but it gives you the general idea:

https://matrix.org/blog/2021/05/17/the-matrix-space-beta/

@hiajen

@fullsquare
> a segment of that anti-americanism was funded by sales of iranian oil. not all of course, but houthis wouldn’t be a thing without it, or large parts of hezbollah

This is a bit like saying certain human rights orgs only exist because Soros funds them via OSF, or that the Hong Kong protests only happened because of NED/ OTF funding. In all these cases I suspect authentic movements are funded when their activities happen to align with funders' current goals.

@aninjury2all @Ardubal

@verity_kindle
> It was a vintage machine that belonged to my Pop-Pop

Did Pop-Pop make you toast?

@cypherpunks
@frongt
> this is a Lemmy community

And Lemmy is part of the fediverse. Also, cows are mammals. Did you have a point to make or are we just stating the obvious for the lulz?

@deadsuperhero
> the reference implementation everyone uses by default is known to be bloated and slow, and poor at scaling

This doesn't seem to stop the fediverse growing (*cough* Mastodon *cough*).

@Terevos

@sga
> fossify apps?

That was about half of them.

Mental note: must donate to Team Fossify. I'm deeply grateful to them for continuing the Simple Apps as un-enshittified Free Code, and I use heaps of them every day. If they had a notes app (ideally one compatible with NextCloud), I'd use that every day too (hint, hint).

#Fossify #SimpleApps #NextCloud

#HatTip to the @fdroid threadiverse community, and others, for offering such rapid and thorough clarifications. Many thanks to @lnxw37a2 @hildegarde @alienghic @plm00 @Axolotl_cpp.

Thanks also to @tootbrute @kurikai for offering suggestions for other soft keyboard apps, and to @snek_boi for reminding me to format the first sentence of my Mastodon post so it becomes a good title in the threadiverse post.