Another bleh moment: an AI slop animation of Winter Olympics history.

Is anyone watching it?

00s enbodied in an instance. Sopuli even after the Great Migrations retains its vibes, slightly different than several fledditor Reddit clones, like the largest instances. I like that.

Misskey (and its forks) allows to pin posts of yours or other users to a Clip.

… but actually one cannot describe Lemmy’s pitch in one simple sentence, because its main difference is: Reddit but no Spez, fora but connected to each other (and we call this “federation”), and Mastodon but with better topic and content discovery. Any attempt to shorten this will be more or less inaccurate.

So, main Lemmy features, listed under the “Join an instance”, “Apps”, “Explore random instance”, etc., IMHO should look like this:

No ads. No tracking. No meddling.

Posts and comments on your feed are determined only by your settings and users’ votes. All moderation actions are public and viewable using a modlog. We do not block third-party apps. Lemmy is a free software and you can check it for yourself.

(we are practically saying Reddit without Spez)

No single overlord. No isolation

There are dozens of Lemmy websites and you can choose your experience with different vibes, topics, regions and moderation approaches. Yet every instance connects to other ones (forming the Fediverse) and allows you to seamlessly talk with each other, even outside of control of Lemmy creators!

(fora but not siloed. Discussion viewable regardless of where you are logged in)

Know the entire discussion on the topic

All the talk on Lemmy happens on communities. Subscribe to any of them and you will receive complete threads of conversation, regardless where you are signed in. A search, which actually works.* Decentralised, but not fragmented.

(Mastodon but actually not fragmented)

All three “features”/“upsides” of Lemmy are related to each other, somewhat like rock-paper-scissors. All form one pitch of a platform which combines the best features of Reddit, fora and Mastodon solving downsides of these at the same time. It would make sense to display these on the carousel.

*does the search on Lemmy work better than on e.g. Reddit? A “better search than on Mastodon” claim would be plausible, anyway

Your own discussion network

Mbin federates with Mastodon & co and allows to sort microblog posts like on Lemmy.

!brandnewsentence@lemmy.world

Huger than you think: this top 10 included Mastodon instances.

geddit.social was technically my first Lemmy instance (although I used /kbin earlier and more than this). Owned by Stux (mstdn.social, pixey.org, gram.social,…) but it was late for lemmy.world-like growth.

trivia: Stux tried also to make a /kbin instance, (along with other prominent Mastodon instance owners. Only Fedia.io, from infosec.exchange survived. Kudos for Jerry). He has called it forum.fail

For a brief moment it was one of 10 largest Fediverse instances by MAU. I dont’t remember now, if it was not larger than even lemmy.world

MBin allows to follow individual users, including these from Lemmy.

Expect lack of comments for some posts for these users for the same reason as in Mastodon: the user might have posted to communities not subscribed from your instance yet as well…

Pleroma (including Akkoma) is aimed at smaller instances, which don’t necessarily have enough popular local posts or followed accounts to make a sufficient number of reposts.

Local feed shows better how is instance like anyway.

Make an account on MBin instance and use Interstellar.

This is how an offtop category on ICD Forum looks like on PieFed. Yes, it’s in Polish

Yes, you want to sort posts on Discourse or NodeBB by Active. Check “View community on another server” ;)

If it federates to Mastodon, then it will federate to PieFed too.

Federation with PieFed worka fine.

One cannot go past hundreds, maybe few thousands MAU without a significant hype and mainstream attention.

Mastodon was the decentralised social network and main ex-Twitter alternative at the time. Misskey attracted Japanese artists from a specific theme , exiled by Twitter. Pixelfed benefitted with Instagram’s moderation drama and then with a Streisand effect. Its autor helped it with some marketing but this only helped with the migration wave, not caused it. Lemmy and /kbin grew on Reddit API debacle. PeerTube is one of self-hosting video solutions and a P2P video platform and a federated one. NodeBB and WordPress carried over their legacy user bases.

No other platform has more than several thousands MAU

MAU numbers for Misskey are underreported as many instances report it wrongly as 0.

Mobilizon does not count its instances’ MAU. Gancio has got no user accounts - events are published there anonymously and there is only one ActivityPub account to follow, which relays everything from the instance.

• Forum.linux.it from Italy, especially Assistenza Linux category,
• https://linux-nerds.org/ in German, but it is not active that much,
• Forum Internet, Czas Działać! from Poland, not specifically Linux, but rather software privacy and consumer rights (made by a privacy rights advocate organisation)

You probably meant Wafrn.