I would like to hear more about the move to Voat, what caused the failure in your opinion? I was not part of that as I had other things going on at the time.

I think defederating is easier said than done, and besides, what if one community is very well behaved and helpful and another is toxic and awful? You throw out the good with the bad in that case.

I think instead the user should be able to choose to combine similar communities, similar to the ‘multireddit’ concept. Then they can get lemmy.ml gaming and beehaw gaming in the same feed.

To help with discovery, a curated list could be created, and perhaps communities from that list could be suggested as time goes on. This does require some kind of centralisation but it would be down to the instance owner to decide to subscribe to it.

It depends on whether someone’s a member of the community or just because they want to scroll some epic memes. I expect many people are of the latter category and probably don’t even understand what the fuss is about.

It’s not like I’ll never look at Reddit again if there’s useful info on it but I won’t be part of the Reddit community again after the scorn and disrespect they showed it - I hope to help build something new over here.

I can’t do anything about Reddit’s decisions but I can vote with my attention and help to build a compelling alternative.

Being a member of the Fediverse is an investment in the future I feel. There’s not tons right now like on Reddit, but you can stick around and help build it by posting, commenting and voting. Alternatively, you can come back in a few years when this is the way that new communities form.

Reddit’s behaviour is a statement of intent for the future, to make money at all costs, sell up and become another advertiser friendly walled garden like Instagram. That’s fine for them, but I have no interest in being part of that.

I’ve been thinking about this joke for a while and don’t feel I understand it. I expect there is a double meaning or a cultural saying that is lost on me, please can you explain it?

I like the Hacker News compromise - you have downvotes only after your account is a certain age and karma, and you can’t downvote responses to your comments.

There is an android and iOS app available for Lemmy. Please see here: https://join-lemmy.org/apps/

Furthermore the mobile web app is quite nice too.

Precisely, the microblogging format really doesn’t resonate with me. I don’t feel I have anything necessarily good to announce to the world, but I enjoy a conversation or the invitation to share my own experience with something.

How would they know that except by putting in the manual work to find out? It’s easier to just come up with a process to do it for anyone who asks.

I know the feeling. I’ve been using Apollo since the beta and at the end of the month it’s just going to be gone. An app made with care and attention for years, just deleted because it has now served its purpose and it now gets in the way of the IPO. I won’t be going back.

I don’t know if the fediverse is the answer but it feels like a good place to start.

They kind of have to don’t they? This is a GDPR thing, right?