Just a reminder we are the future of social media.

Public opinion seems to be souring on all the big corporate social media sites, and I truly think if we're able to get the word out about federated social media platforms, people will jump ship.

Also, it's hard to dislike a platform that isn't showing ads, selling user data, or generally making decisions for the enrichment of shareholders.

Doin' muh best to shitpost.

You're all welcome, citizens!

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Gonna be honest, a lot of times I feel like I don't belong here, I'm still figuring things out. I'm not a "techy" type person (that seems to be some kind of prerequisite) and I barely know how to explain the fediverse to the layman, but I left reddit when they fucked over Joey (my preferred reddit app) and read enough to give reddit the middle finger and never look back. It's been nice, really. I spend more time outside of the internet now. But I believe in the fediverse, I think it's the right thing to do. I still check up on lemmy daily, but I get much more value and human connection and only spend the time that is appropriate on lemmy instead of endlessly scrolling. Most days I end up in some Wikipedia rabbit hole. Just like the good ol' days. Learning new things, meeting new people. That's what I love about the internet.

Admins. Thank you. Users. Thank you.

Mods?

im taking a shit

Ehh. What's the average age around here? I'm guessing it wasn't the youth that migrated from Reddit.

I'm doing my best to look at memes 💪

I still haven’t been able to give up reddit but I have always been a lurker there. Here I’m trying to make a conscious effort to participate in conversations. I’m trying to be positive, kind, and thoughtful because that’s what I want lemmy to be.

The thing that I love most about Lemmy and the wider Fediverse is the sense of actual community. Many of the users feel like actual people I could meet in real life. It's essentially a digital cafe. Sure as hell not going back to Reddit or those other shit Big Tech sites.

What I like about the fedi is I don't care if it's a "success" in the same sense that the closed social media sites have to be. It's not like this project has quarterly profit targets to hit or else it'll have to enshittify or else the investors pull out and we're all screwed because there's no more app.fediverse.com monolith or whatever.

Nah it's just us doing our thing and enjoying ourselves. The activity around here already reached a critical mass a while ago, to the point that there's more content than I could hope to enjoy, so anything from here is vegan gravy.

Just out of curiosity, how much does it cost per month to run a Lemmy instance? Not that I'd want to do that myself, I'm just grateful for our admins that keep Lemmy up and running.

Just trying to take it easy for all those sinners.

Everyone one of my shitposts is making history

I lurk!! But, thanks y'all.

Every minute you use lemmy, spez's penis becomes 1 millimeter smaller

I'm here to argue! It's my passtime 😎

Thank You, BotM! I migrated here from the corporate social medias as soon as I was aware. I'm still transferring my OC over from IG (not an easy task) to Pixelfed. And I use similar talking points to inform people, often about the very existence of a non-comercial social media. Very few people, maybe 2, since July '23 have even heard of the Fediverse. We shall persist!

For Lemmy.world a donation would help keep it alive without all the crap. Servers are cheaper then they were, but still not cheap.

considering that this is a bsd user, yeah makes sense.

Coming from a self hoster, shits up when it's up. Otherwise it's down.

I charge nothing and you expect no guarantees of service :)

"the future of social media" reminds me of "the year of the Linux desktop". Like, what does that mean to you?

The most obvious explanation is that you think it will overtake corporate social media entirely. Or even exist anywhere on the same level. But that seems unrealistic.

That means everything I am doing is becoming trendy, which makes no sense.

Not yet.

I don’t know. Sounds like communism 🙃

Well, that reminds me that Mastodon has huge, unresolved problems, such as tags being part of the post's body like Twitter rather than being a separate field like Tumblr.

Reading tweets with a hundred hashtags at the bottom seem really thirsty for attention, which is bad because Mastodon wants to fundamentally work with these, yet doesn't have good in-post integration for them. It makes interactions less genuine, more performative.

Rome wasn't built in a day, and Mastodon won't be good tomorrow either. In the meantime, you can vote to make it better on https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/10743.

o7

Now my username is not completely meaningless.

It's true, we are za warudo.

Doing my part O7

Am I the only one who has Firefish crash for them?

<3

And yet it skews (awkwardly?) further from Reddit. Nobody understands that all the important movements of history reached across political lines and focused on a mission. Still missing a both sides vibe from here where everything is equally discussed to succeed.

Your presence and attention are the most precious thing on the internet.

If you're reading this, just know that I will probably butt heads with you at some point. I can be abrasive, and I typically don't censor what I think.

That being said, I wouldn't choose any other social media. Lemmy makes me think of what the United States should be, disparate communities coming together to form a larger and stronger whole. I can be an asshole, spit my shit and have people discuss things with me in a rational manner - for the most part coming to a common understanding.

I've learned a lot about who I want to be from talking to and reading what Lemmians have to say. I will always appreciate this place.

Oh boy...

*Random mods on some instances, however...

Every morning /kbin is working on some issues.

Almost all of you hate me. I'm like second or third against the wall.

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

That's the most delusional shit i've ever heard