Pamasich @ Pamasich @kbin.earth

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There's a great website here. The information you're looking for is at the bottom.

what the primary difference is between Mastadon and Bluesky?

Mastodon is in the fediverse (like Lemmy, which you're using), while Bluesky is not.

It's also way older than Bluesky (2016 vs 2023). So recency bias might have played a role.

It seems like bluesky is gaining much more traction than mastadon ever did, based solely on how I literally hear nothing about it ever. If I am wrong on mastadon not being widely adopted, do tell, I am genuinely asking.

You're not wrong at all there. Mastodon currently only has 886k monthly active users, while Bluesky is in the millions despite its much shorter lifetime.

The fediverse is just unpopular in general. Mastodon is the most popular fediverse platform though, Lemmy has only 48k monthly active users.

Yeah, I did check fedia.io with the intention of mentioning their score there too, but imo the difference between 25584 and 25332 is too miniscule for that.

Huh, I assume that only appears while logged in then. Since I checked your profile on your home instance before writing that comment and didn't see anything (and still don't).

It does indeed seem to not be a thing even on all Lemmy instances, as my lemm.ee account (which runs the same version as lemmy.zip) doesn't have such a number displayed anywhere.

25332

If it is the same as for me it should be the sum of your posts and comments.

Not sure what you mean with "if it is the same as for me", considering you're on Lemmy which doesn't have a feature like this.

But it being the sum of posts and comments is verifiably false. My instance knows of 6 posts and 809 comments of yours. Your home instance reports 17 posts and 2.27k comments. Either way, your karma is 8686, which isn't the sum of either of those.

Lemmy doesn't, but other platforms like Mbin might show your total karma among posts federated with that instance.

The instance I'm on tells me your karma is 462.

Same was the case on /kbin, and while Mbin got rid of the downvotes, it still has public upvotes.

Reputation points: -216

I, uh, can see why. Mbin does show your total karma btw, even for Lemmy users.

I can only see one of those two posts (the second one) and it's pretty well reasoned (I don't agree though, just saying they did provide their reasoning in more than enough words imo). If you're interested, here's the link.

To summarize it:

• UI worse than New Reddit (I personally agree with it being at least just as bad, that's why I didn't go to Lemmy)
• Big instances are laggy (remember, the post is from 7 months ago not today, so don't compare the statement to how they are now)
• Bad mod tools (a common complaint I see about Lemmy)
• Too much far left and tech focus (another common complaint)
• It's not active enough (yet another common complaint)
• Shitty mods (I disagree with the specific claim made about them being worse than Reddit ones, but I've definitely seen at least one shitty mod here so far, and too many are neglectful)
• Lemmy developers are Maoist (fact iirc)
• The community is filled with far left extremists, Mao worshippers, dictator bootlickers, and genocide supporters (the one actually unreasonable take imo which indicates they went to the wrong instance)

This really isn't true. Specific subreddits do, because their mods want to buddy up to the admins. With OP's search settings, I do get one of the posts they got (only one though), and most of the results are drowned out by posts about some guy called Lemmy. But sorting by New, there's plenty of results even from today and the past week. Subreddits announcing their fallback instance, a canadian subreddit discovering lemmy.ca, people asking questions about Lemmy. Lemmy-specific subreddits also show up without a problem. And everything I saw, except for that one post from OP's image, was positive about it.

I think people who have fully left Reddit are falling for confirmation bias when they hear that a post got removed for mentioning Lemmy. While plenty are still up despite doing the same. It's either because of the other contents of the post, or because of the subreddit it was posted in. If it was about promoting Lemmy alone, all posts that promote Lemmy would be gone, which isn't the case.

I think they're complaining that Lemmy uses the older method of blocking instead of the more modern version.

The old way of blocking is that you don't want to see a person, but they're still free to do what they want. It's just not shown to you. So they can still read everything you post and downvote or reply to it as they please.

The modern way is to prevent the blocked user from interacting with you at all, including seeing your posts.

I don't use Lemmy, so I don't know which it uses, but it sounds like OP is arguing that Mastodon uses the latter but Lemmy uses the former. Reddit used to do the former but eventually changed to the latter.

They're referring to hate speech.

They're not technically wrong, it is censorship and illegal speech to outlaw hate speech. But it takes malicious selfishness and a lack of empathy to actually take issue with it imo.

One thing I haven't seen mentioned yet is that Mbin supports custom magazine/community CSS like Old Reddit did. Don't think it's federated currently though, so it's local only. There's also the ability to follow users and boost (retweet) content, which Lemmy lacks.

Judging by recent posts by Piefed's creator, they seem to be planning to add end-to-end encryption and ephemeral content.

They do have a dedicated "Crawler" page.

And they do mention there that they use a website crawler for their Developer Tools and Network features.

Considering the sub in question is /r/redditalternatives, you posted this in a thread about alternative communities on lemmy, and there's a reply to your comment which promotes more lemmy (and mbin) instances that isn't removed... I really really doubt the reason for the ban was you mentioning Lemmy. That would be very inconsistent of the mods, and actually suggest a vendetta against you personally rather than lemmy.

Did you reply to the message asking what rule you broke? Like the ban message instructs you to? Might have also been an accidential ban.

It did not violate any community rules. Reddit doesn't make any sense.

Sadly, sidebar rules on Old Reddit aren't real and so can't be relied upon. There are in fact more than just four rules. There's nine of them.

That said, even with the expanded list of rules I can't find any that might apply. Unless their automoderator is so heavily sensitive to non-civility that the very word "cuss" is seen as bad language. Which I very much doubt. It does mention that linking to websites containing malware leads to an immediate permaban, but I doubt that's the case here?

I know you're a Piefed developer, so you probably know what's possible and what's not better than me. But honestly, the encryption part makes me think you probably want a new protocol designed with that in mind from the start. In my opinion, it's too destructive for compatibility with other ActivityPub software and instances running older versions of them especially.

Combating spam despite the simplified account creation will probably require the implementation of something like Reddit's karma system. Which isn't a very popular idea I think.

Regarding the ephemeral content.... please don't. It might sound cool on paper, but it just adds FOMO. We shouldn't promote doomscrolling and brainrot with the addition of features which require you to quickly scroll through shit to not miss out on posts that disappear after a timer has passed.

There's definitely still a bunch of areas the fediverse could be improved in, yeah.

I thought one of the advantages of the Fediverse was to have one account but access to many services. Is this possible just not common?

It's a misunderstanding by you. It's not that you have one account on one website and can login on all the others with it. Rather, you can look at content and interact with users from other websites from your home one.

Like, it's really a lot like Email. If you're signed up with Gmail, you can freely send emails to users signed up with other email providers. But you can't just go to Outlook's online version and log in with your Gmail account. The same applies to the fediverse.

That said, if your goal is to interact with the rest of the fediverse, you're probably better off switching to Mbin. Lemmy doesn't really care about anything that's not a Reddit-like.

I think it's fine to use unique platform features like this, but if you're actually using this actively, be aware that not everyone will see your titles as you intended them. It's only Lemmy users that can see it actually render "properly", everyone else just sees the plaintext Markdown symbols.