OpenStars @ OpenStars @piefed.social

Compassion >~ Thought

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It looks to me like you did it right.

I went from Reddit to Kbin to StarTrek.Website and when every action was taking >1 minute and needing to be repeated, switched again to Discuss.Online, which I am very happy with and remain to this day.

Except I also switched to PieFed.social and use that 95% of the time now.:-)

It's been a bit of a wild ride! 🤣💪😺

PieFed, Kbin died but lives on in its fork Mbin, Sublinks didn't pan out but was started (the PHP code is FOSS), nodeBB, and flarum.

You may also occasionally see posts from Friendica or Mastodon that also use the ActivityPub protocol, though the barriers to sharing those with the Threadiverse are somewhat high.

Technically the truth...

Fwiw, you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.

I for one am extremely happy to see PieFed flourish, and one of my chief reasons to move to it 8 months ago was specifically to block lemmy.ml.

That said, I have no desire to "cancel" anyone at all - and the Lemmy devs are worthy of respect for their accomplishments, even as they also deserve some criticisms for the way that they run their instance.

I love how the future allows PieFed and Lemmy - and Mbin, nodebb, flarum, friendica, mastodon, pixelfed, etc. - to exist altogether in the Fediverse, without needing any of the others to die out. I even maintain accounts on both PieFed and Lemmy instances, as each currently offers features that the other lacks.

(also, if some of the lemmy instances were to be cancelled, then all of their users would come over to here... think about that for a moment, is that a desirable outcome to you? :-P)

A lot of YouTubers get burnt out and retire. I'm not saying that's the only or even primary factor but it could be one of them.

And (genetically) approved 🐒

I likewise enjoy consumption of edible organic substances, fellow human 🤖

And "I'm so sorry" also, to have read this.

/s... I think 😜

In exchange for jeans (on Taylor Swift's jet?) of course:-)

Test to find out if I am part of the illemmyminati.

I can haz reply?

I will sweeten the offer by adding the strongest Lemmy currency in existence:

To elaborate: one of the top features that I switched to PieFed for was the ability to choose to either receive or arguably more importantly NOT receive notifications on pretty much everything. Communities, users, individual posts, comment replies, you name it. There is a little bell icon that you simply press to toggle and then receive - or don't - the replies from then on out. Reverse the decision at any time. Or there's a listing somewhere to clean up old stuff.

I accidentally made a comment on Hexbear.net once, and then again on lemmygrad.ml, each of which triggered replies to me for WEEKS and WEEKS afterwards. I almost quit Lemmy after that:-(. Actually, technically I suppose I did! (I am writing this to you from PieFed after all:-).

I finally blocked all of Lemmy.ml. You are correct of course, but the rare times someone says even a passable comment simply is not worth all the times I see the most bat shit insane replies, none of which I have to see ever again now.:-) I find that tradeoff worthwhile for myself at least.

Lemmy.world communities can get that way too obviously, as you say because of the size, but still... it's different, the ratios of worthwhile to not worthwhile comments.

A couple of years ago it was not this way, but time has passed and nowadays it seems to become (every so slightly) increasingly true.

Sadly I will never be able to find out, as my initial instance Kbin.social died ☠️

In fairness tho... they actually do:-)

Ew... you go right ahead, while I'll be over here just ah... doing not that.:-P