Is this really true?

Twilio is the biggest sms back end and it’s like $10 per number month or something.

Australia also, South West corner. Water is fine to drink, I just don’t like the taste. We collect rain water instead - heaps of that.

The bulk of reddit has already gone back to reddit.

Don’t get me wrong, lemmy is great just the way it is. We don’t need a continued influx from reddit (although lets see what happens on 1 July).

You’re right in a way, but I think you’re applying a narrow definition of “opinion” when I think most people ITT are thinking about “behaviours”.

Sure, it’s not great to exclude dissenting political opinions, the intolerance paradox being a notable exception. That said, I’m not here to discuss politics.

Say for example that some users will do anything for fake internet points - post anything, say anything, there behaviour is guided by the pursuit of karma and building some kind of following. Other users will do anything for engagement, whatever it takes to get others to engage with them including trolling. I’m happy enough for these types of users to find more rewarding platforms elsewhere. Note that’s different to excluding them, it’s just being a part of a place that isn’t fertile ground for their fixations.

This sounds fantastic to me.

It’s pretty much what happened on mastodon with the twitter-storm in November.

Huge influx of new users, about a third hung around - but it was the third who were the most like-minded.

I agree. If lemmy continues to grow, inevitably some servers will be shit, but I imagine there will be other non-federated or less-federated instances. beehaw has already started down that path.

Trolls are generally looking for maximum carnage, so I imagine there’s less incentive / reward posting somewhere like lemmy.

I think this is something reddit users generally have a hard time grasping about lemmy, including myself.

One of the fundamentals of the fediverse is that there will be communities with the same name on different instances. Users can subscribe to good ones and / unsubscribe from bad ones as they wish.

It’s not a binary decision, they’re not mutually exclusive.

It’s like arguing about browsers. I use Firefox and I use Chrome every day.

I’ve been using mastodon & reddit everyday, but while I’ve had a lemmy account for a long while but until now the community hasn’t been well aligned with my interest.

If just a third of the current active users stick around I can see it becoming part of my daily scrolling.

Actually I just noticed that when you search for say, “selfhosted” you’ll only be shown results that people have already accessed from the instance you’re on. So when you search for a community, if none are shown that doesn’t mean none exist, just that no one on your instance have accessed them yet ?

Yeah.

Invidious is pretty good in android Firefox like when you “add to homescreen”. The other browser add-ons won’t avoid the algorithm I think?

I use newpipe. I found libretube seemed to stop working more than newpipe but maybe time for another look!

Wow. Ok. That’s good to know thanks.

100% agreed.

Like, cram android onto an underpowered SOC and it’s just incredibly frustrating to use.

You can still get chunky laptops, they’re just inconvenient to haul around.

Some alternative frontends resolve this. Invidious for example is a youtube front end. There are public instances. Most popular sites have them.

Agreed. Anything designed to be binged is all filler no thriller.

yeah that one has one subscriber!

Thinking that there are different learning styles probably helps poor teachers develop better content though.

Not really. It’s incredibly frustrating and I’ve def lost some faith in humanity.

I thought /r/selfhosted would be ready to jump but everyone is like “but there’s no users on lemmy” and “you’ll split the community” and “we’re going to go dark for two days - that will teach them!”

Consequently there’s been no support for any single refuge.

Additionally people have set up several communities here with similar names in the past but now mods aren’t responding so it’s all a bit of a mess.

There’s definitely scope for this.

I know I would never pay for facebook / twitter / reddit. Not 1 cent, but I’m happily contributing to fosstodon on patreon each month - and I don’t think I’m alone.

I think there’s a not-insignificant segment of the population that are weary enough of the advertising revenue model that we’re happy to pay to avoid it. The expectation that everything on the net should be free has ruined the net IMO.

I don’t know in a “what to click sense”, but lemmy and mastodon differ from reddit and Twitter in that they’re open source running on open standards. There’s no proprietary walled garden to protect.

The underlying protocol is called activitypub. Think of lemmy and mastodon as different interfaces for viewing the same data.