Does anyone have access to your machine (local or remote)? This sounds every odd.

I would imagine dampening how much of a boost old posts get would fix this issue.

There is 0% chance this man is neither on drugs nor having a severe mental breakdown.

He’s not even good at using his puppet.

I manage them using git and stow.

Stow is very useful, but a bit unknown. Hard to explain in a Lemmy post, but basically it helps you manage symlinks between your git repo directory and your $HOME.

You can “install” and “uninstall” configs by managing the symlinks with stow.

Wait… Linux desktop is beating Apple in Turkey?

Do students use Linux in schools, or is there an economic reason (i.e. Apple products are too expensive to buy with the current inflation)?

I really don’t want to sound snobbish, but people are really entitled these days.

“Omg you have to pick a server?! I’m going to have to spend more that 30s figuring out how this works? There is no alternative!”

When did everyone become a spoiled toddler? Just calm down, take some time to figure things out, and be patient.

/rant

If you just watch videos and don’t comment or upload, what’s the point of a YouTube account?

Just subscribe to channels using RSS

I hate this notion that a platform isn’t successful unless it has a billion users. As long as there’s a critical mass of people, it’s fine. One thing I’ve realised browsing lemmy for the past week is just how much of my Reddit experience was defined by the same handful of Twitter screenshots and rehosted tiktoks being reposted over and over again like every week.

I agree, I just don’t think lemmy is at critical mass yet.

Maybe it’s just me, but it feels like most of the discussion is still centered around how bad reddit has become. Only after reddit stops living rent free inside people’s heads, will lemmy be able to develop its own culture, IMO.

Are there any plans to federate instances across both platforms? (i.e. allow for subscriptions)

Or has this been implemented, and I just missed it?

EDIT: Nevermind, found it. It is possible.

Yes, I’m fully aware of that, and I’m OK with waiting. I’ve been favouring the use of open-source software for a long time, and that’s not about to change.

Just pointing out some areas that could potentially have a large ROI when it comes to the devs’ time.

That’s true.

I use RSS feed to follow youtube channels, but if they happen to upload to odysee or peertube as well, I follow them there instead. Just to give a YouTube competitor a bit more traffic.

I tried sorting by “New”, and while that does show me new content, it won’t show me new content that the community thinks it’s good (that’s the whole point about having a voting system).

I’ve changed from the default (i.e. “Active”) into “Hot”, but the frontpage is still very stale.

One reddit feature I do miss is the ability to automatically hide posts that you already upvoted or downvoted. That would keep my frontpage relatively fresh.

Doubt it, it’s expensive to host and creators won’t have ways to ways to monetize it as easily as YouTube.

Also, I wouldn’t really call the Twitter and Reddit cases “exodus”. As much as I would like to see the fediverse succeed, the number of users on mastodon and Lemmy are just a blip on the radar.

I still see the same links on my Lemmy frontage days after they have been submitted, it’s far less active than Reddit.

It’s not ad-friendly, and does not force you to create yet another account in yet another walled garden for big-tech to collect your data.

My solution to this is to be more stringent with the feeds that I add. In this day and age, there’s so much volume that the important metric is signal-to-noise ratio.

If I find myself skipping the articles from a feed more often than opening them, I just unsubscribe.

Sure they still pile up if I miss a few days, but not nearly as before.

I agree it needs to be more intuitive, however, I would argue that Linux is far more intuitive than it used to be. Still, people didn’t switch.

Another driving force is that people don’t like change, and people use whatever others use. TikTok bought another company just to get their userbase, it’s that important.

The fediverse is fighting an uphill battle. You’d have to provide a platform that is far more intuitive and engaging than the competition, while relying on volunteer labour.

To be fair, there was a viable and easy to use alternative (Reddit). And the community was largely tech savvy.

Today there are more computer users, so the average tech literacy is higher, but the tech literacy of the average computer user is lower. People want slick, easy to use, centralised solutions.

I’m not too concerned about this though. I think realistically the fediverse could achieve a critical mass to keep it going, but won’t be too large that it becomes just a bunch of noise (like Reddit).

That’s true.

I’m not that invested into Lemmy yet. But if I end up using it as much as reddit, I might do this (sounds like an interesting project anyway).

For now, I’ll keep my account in a smaller / more open instance.

If anything, I think reddit was a good lesson on what happens when you let a small group of people control such a large platform. We might run into the same issues if we let a couple of instances get too large.

And this is why I didn’t sign up for a large instance.

I’d rather joine a smaller one that doesn’t block any instance, neither is it blocked by other instances.

I just want to slowly find new communites and join the ones I think have good discussion, regardless of where they are hosted. I don’t need babysitting.