Which apps are specifically turning into fediverse apps? Very curious.

It feels quite strange reading this as a Jewish person.

iPhone 13 mini. I’m so sad they discontinued the mini, it’s the perfect phone for me so I’m holding onto it until it dies which seems to be coming soon :(

Everyone jumps to the most wonderous conclusion possible when it comes alien life, but this in my opinion is the most plausible likelihood. Humanity is not only a relatively new civilization, but it would also kind of make sense that in the grand scheme of things we aren’t really all that important as a species. We only just reached our own moon less than 100 years ago. I think the idea of humanity being just a mediocre species in the grand scheme of things is scarier thought to some people over the idea that we are of some unique importance.

It would also make sense given that lots of “official” declassified reports of UAP/UFOs tend to focus around nuclear and military testing sites as well as active war zones. Kind of like they are checking to make sure we aren’t annihilating ourselves. I can just imagine an alien civilization laughing over the fact those stupid hairless apes got into another war and being informed in sheer horror that not only did we split the atom, we used it as a weapon against our own kind just to see what would happen instead of using it as an energy source.

Hi I’m gabuwu, aka gabe. I am a 22 year old gay jewish dude and enjoy reading and knitting and crochet! as well as gaming. I also love cats!

Explain that tankie and extreme political instances are consistently defederated, since its a federated platform. They can just find an instance that doesn’t interact with the tankie instances.

Lemmy is too good to leave. I don’t think I’m alone either. I was wanting an alternative for a while.

There’s some instances that exist for it, but they aren’t that big. Yet. The reason why a few instances are shying away from it though is because it is kinda hard to properly moderate adult content consistently. It requires a lot of time to make sure you stay within the scope of the law otherwise it opens up legal liabilities.

Basically when Tumblr got bought, they progressively became more aggressive in their attempt to make it more profitable. At first, they changed their UI to something so shitty that the site was practically unusable without an external extension, and slowly but surely, they began to aggressively add more invasive advertising. It was like a war; the ads would become more invasive, and users would actively figure out the ways to block it. In this time, it was also almost as if moderation just ceased on the site as they focused their entire time on advertising and making a profit of some kind. Then as things kind of settled and users begrudgingly downloaded xkit, the porn bots started to show up. It was slow at first but progressively it just got worse and worse and worse. As this occurred, moderation on the site was so bad that the iOS app store began blocking the app temporarily due to site failing to take action against child exploitation material. The porn bot accounts hit critical mass, and immediately after they did the site banned adult content to try and get things reinstated on the app store. It was, but users jumped ship en-masse and the site has never fully recovered and likely never will. The entire site dropped in value and has stayed that way too. The final straw for so many people wasn’t even the adult content removal was more so the fact they’d rather ban adult content entirely than actually improve their poor moderation.

If reddit ends up banning NSFW content or restricting it somewhat, then I honestly feel like it will be more evidence that for-profit social media platforms are just simply not sustainable long term especially with twitter doing its thing right now as well and Meta just generally becoming a real life supervillain ran company. If things go the same vein as tumblr for reddit, then there will be more drama a lot sooner than people realize and the migration towards lemmy and other platforms is just inevitable. When the mass exodus of tumblr users occurred, the site was so broken it was practically unusable.

Far too many. It feels so much eerily like tumblr prior to its mass user exodus.

I like discord currently but matrix is just far too inactive within the communities I have sought out from what I can see personally.

Coordinated attempts to sway public discussions

making brigading more unacceptable here than it seems to be on reddit would be nice

Almost all of them nowadays just devolve into antisemitism unfortunately

I think specific steps would need to be taken to prevent it from becoming another r/conspiracy rather than a general public agreement, but I’m honestly not sure what steps those would even be…

r/momforaminute was lovely but might verge a bit too much into mental health support unless guard rails are made for such a community.

I want an Eastern US or Mid-Atlantic US one.

A knitting and crochet community, regardless if its separated or together as a unified fiber arts community would be a godsend