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A couple of things come to mind:

• More public institutions need to be on Mastodon or similar microblogging services, so they can publish public service announcements openly via Fediverse and RSS for everyone to read
• More video creators and public broadcasters need to publish their videos or mirror their channels to PeerTube/Loops etc.
• More donations or funding in general for fediverse developers and instance admins
• More enthusiasts who post about their niche interests in niche communities on Lemmy/PieFed/Mbin

It’s smaller and friendlier, no ads, no big tech, non-commercial, open source and I can host my own instance on a potato that connects me to people all around the globe.

Sooo slooow…

I’m out of the loop here. I only know that New Jersey is close to New York and that there’s some rivalry between the two. Can you explain?

People like me also like Bluesky. In fact, I’d go so far as to say that people who like record stores all pretty much like Bluesky. And that’s probably the right frame of mind for thinking about text-based social media in general. It isn’t a dominant media institution anymore. It’s niche. It has some cultural cachet, but you will be disappointed if you expect it to recapture the glory days.

Maybe text-based social media was always niche. That’s why I like the fediverse. It doesn’t have to be text-based. You can choose your preferred medium and still interact with the others.

Senior fediverse aficionado

Smashed pasta, now that’s a new meal to try

Where does it come from?

OK Doomer

No, you can only backup your Voyager settings from the app.

I want this place to be active, so I post things that might be relevant to others. And the little dopamine boost if I notice that something I posted received some upvotes is nice as well.

Everytime I think there’s nothing going on here, I post something myself. Or if the posts I see are mostly negative, I’ll post something positive. Be the change you want to see.

You mean my cat on cozy.talk? 6 hours ago

mizu

https://web.archive.org/web/20230628184548/https://lemmy.world/post/440073

You did a good

Why don’t you do it?

Exactly. Fork it, make GoFed, extend the Fediverse. That’s how open source works.

Before most trolling became toxic, there was the variant of light trolling which was nice and very fun. I remember one person presenting a talk at a hacker conference about trolling, but all they did was talking about trolling as in fishing… for the whole talk. It was a nice way to waste everyone’s time.

I’m using it to track what books I’ve read and to discover new books to read by following others. But you can also create read later lists, write and read reviews, rate books, comment on others reviews or status updates. Also, every time a book isn’t available on Bookwyrm I enjoy to enter the metadata and make it available for everyone.

I created a Mastodon account in 2022 when Musk took over Twitter, but wasn’t really active there. When Reddit closed down their API in 2023 I started using Lemmy daily. Now I’m on Mastodon, Lemmy, PieFed, PeerTube, Bookwyrm and more. Love the fediverse!

It’s delicious