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Honestly briar would be my pick in an ideal world, you don’t need an internet connection, just Bluetooth. Sure it has short range but its the starting point for decentralized messaging

You love to see it, I genuinely smiled, probably not the normal reaction for most people but it makes me happy to see people use signal.

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Okay great, if I live anywhere besides NYC, where’s my damn train for transport? Oh right its nonexistent. I’d love to take a train but the people that run this shithole say its too expensive and continue to pave more roads! Wow I love living here where my government continues to listen to big oil and destroy the planet in the process!!

For the most part yes, I would say anything mainstream is generally made its way to lemmy, however some niche subs like r/hamradio r/gmrs and some gaming subreddits like r/fireemblem and r/finalfantasy seem to be missing. Honestly I’m surprised even 90+% of the communities I follow are on here, I’m quite hopeful that it’ll continue to get better.

I’ve got my popcorn ready for whatever happens down there.

100% agree, I kinda hope they keep it in a way because its probably better than most standard captchas.

Yes and thats true aswell, some instances aren’t connected to one another so that might be an issue for someone just picking a random instance. The solution is quite simple though, make it clear in the join-lemmy page the federation status, or have a link to all the banned instances the admins have put in place. Overall I’m still very hopeful and worried about the coming days, this community has already grown but its not over yet.

#1 Same with a lot of new social media, discord actually meant something different before 2015

#2 They don’t need to at a technical level

#3 If you find it challenging to decide which server to join then I really don’t know what to tell you. Its a small barrier to entry and objectively a good thing. An small IQ test of sorts.

#4 I’d imagine this is for spam / bot protection, and it may change in the future. I kinda like it, it keeps a lot of toxic users / trolls out. Sure the community is smaller but its more inviting for those that took the time.

#5 How is that different from reddit? View r/all at anytime and it was composed of left wing articles and users.

#6 Not 100% sure what your arguing here

#7 I actually find the idea of similar communities on different instances confusing (eg. !memes@lemmy.ml & !memes@beehaw)

edit: spelling

edit 2: it may be a little confusing to users that all servers can talk to eachother through federation so thats probably what confuses people. This could be explained better on the join-lemmy webpage. either way this will probably be similar to mastadon in terms of how it’ll go down, lots of users join, instances have a hard time keeping up at first, then they stabilize.

I do have to wonder if Reddit knows something we don’t… This is… wayyy too much to ignore. I assume they’ve done analysis of the worse cases and mass user departure. The only reason I can assume they’re not backing down is due to the very high upfront costs of Reddit. Less users = less costs which theoretically means more profit. You have a very good point, and its something all Lemmy server owners need to be prepared for, which is a huge influx of users joining on the blackouts, even then, it may not be enough, unintentional DDOS attacks are still DDOS attacks. This is a golden opportunity of a lifetime for Lemmy, but I fear with even a 10th of Reddits current userbase, Lemmy admins won’t be able to keep up… I feel for all the developers and admins that make Lemmy possible, and I really hope it goes well for everyone involved. Donate to server admins and the main project if you have a few dollars spare, or if anyone is comfortable with coding I’m sure they need some devs.

Dying being an alchemist is like dying because you forgot to look both ways before crossing the street, in other words, I was a bad alchemist…

I don’t know, but I’m a captain so I might be able to find my way out

I feel between two and three here. I don’t have a thinkpad, but i’d love to live in a cabin for sure though.