Ulu-Mulu-no-die

Microsoft Teams is the official communication tool for business where I work, no need to use whatsapp tho a few colleagues use it for fluff, as for personal/family, some of my family use whatsapp but I don’t (I use Discord), if we want to talk to each other we use “good old-fashioned” phone calls :D

Very well said, it must have not been easy at all with the huge and sudden influx of people, but everyone did (and is still doing) a fantastic job in keeping lemmy a beautiful place to be.

Thank you for reacting so quickly!

It did indeed, I knew nothing about the fediverse before the reddit protest began, didn’t even know lemmy existed, now I happily migrated here, like me many other people.

I think putting direct links to lemmy/kbin is what triggers bans the most, avoiding links should be fine enough.

The performance improvement is very noticeable, thank you so much everyone for the excellent job!

Have a look at this explanation

If you want to know more, here’s a starting guide

You’re not missing anything by not using apps, as other people said, many people came here because reddit apps stopped working and they’re looking for replacements.

I never used apps on reddit, old.reddit on desktop was by far the best experience for me, I don’t intend to use apps on lemmy either.

At this point there’s nothing they can do to regain my trust, and considering they want to go public, they can only get worse.

Public trading is the cancer of our financial world, nothing good ever comes out of it.

Fantastic post! Thank you :)

While I could understand this approach for big enterprises, to avoid the hassle of managing thousands of employees PCs, I don’t understand it for home use.

I mean, people who want a PC at home, want it for the multi-purpose capabilities and power in gaming, not to mention full control over it.

Those who only use the PC for email, browsing the internet and watching videos, are better served with a tablet, they’re so powerful nowadays that you don’t really need a PC for those simple tasks, students would be better off with chromebooks, they’re even cheaper, a few types of jobs, like professional graphics for example, are better done with a MAC, and probably other things I’m forgetting right now.

I fully switched to Linux years ago, but if I were still using Windows, I know for sure I’d be furious if my computer stopped working only because the internet went down or MS servers had some downtime.

I’d love to know what they know that I don’t to be so sure this won’t blow up in their faces.

You forgot: only use new reddit, that should be enough to make anyone vomit.

Oh well, at least you went down with a truly epic post :D

Terraria. It’s a sort of hybrid between a minecraft 2d and an action RPG, really fun game with lots of content.

You can play it as standalone or as co-op and the server component is included in the game for you to host it if you want.

Tho If by interesting you mean MMOs, there are emulators for a few of them, WoW is my favorite (TrinityCore, AzerothCore), but know that opening them up to public use is illegal (copyright violation).

Edit: added github links to wow emulators.

This. Stadia was one of the last example, they’ll kill this new service too after a few years, it’s not worth to even consider using.

Well, the attitude is bad but they’re not completely wrong in principle.

I mean, if you’re really dissatisfied with reddit you quit using it, as many of us have done already.

Either you’re actively participating in the protest with “malicious compliance” or you stop giving them traffic.

Posting there just to complain about it doesn’t make sense.

TIL what the GAFAM empire is.

Besides that, I think the following quote is key:

Google realized that most XMPP interactions were between Google Talk users anyway. They didn’t care about respecting a protocol they were not 100% in control. So they pulled the plug and announced they would not be federated anymore

I never used Google Talk nor XMPP but I gather XMPP didn’t have enough users to sustain itself.

Chat systems (and Twitter/Facebook similar platforms) need a very high amount of users to be “sustainable” because they are centered on individuals.

The fediverse doesn’t need that many because is centered around meaningful discussions, having too many is even counterproductive because discussions derail into shitposting (look at reddit).

I agree with the blogger when they say

We should not try to include as many people as we can at all cost. We should be honest and ensure people join the Fediverse because they share some of the values behind it

Mainly because if we did, lemmy would go down the drain as much as reddit has done the last few years.

I want Meta blocked because I don’t want their shit coming over here, much more than being worried about them trying to extinguish the fediverse, tho you can be sure they will indeed try.

Finally a “down to earth” explanation I can fully understand, thank you!

If they re-federate, both your accounts would work the same, tho beehaw blocks a lot more instances than lemmy.world, so with your lemmy.world account you would (potentially) still see more content than with your beehaw one.

influx of legitimately hateful posts from 2 specific instances

Apparently it wasn’t just hateful posts, but a troll attack specifically directed at them, and as you said, they don’t have enough mod power to deal with it.

I hope the idiots doing it have been banned but that’s not a guarantee someone else won’t try again.

With instances as big as ours, a few bad apples can happen unfortunately.