👍Maximum Derek👍

And the old memes trend is that time the band did a bunch of coffee shop shows playing nothing but ukuleles.

IMO the best communities serve a niche. Then you get a bunch of like minded members on one server and you end up with a local feed that is likely to be full of personally interesting stuff.

I wonder if we can take the data in that site and see whether or not the fediverse has a “long tail.” Or if the mass migration has consolidated folks into a more traditional bell curve across servers.

The long tail is a concept that applies in a number of ways but I’m most familiar with it from the very very early days of SEO. The idea that the thing you’re interested in (in this case active users) are spread over so many tiny instances that they seem like a small part of the whole when in fact they make up the majority.

I keep thinking we need a way to become our own personal IDPs, then we can have both. But if too many people find the current state of the fediverse confusing we’re never going to get a critical mass of people to manage their own oauth profiles and scopes.

It’s less of a defense and more of a stick to shove in our spokes. We can get bled to death by simple user inertia, it happens all the time. We can see it happening right here in the Fediverse as we speak, where the majority of active users just think of beehaw as “that weird server where people won’t see my replies.”

Threads is an aircraft carrier at full speed and we’re a rowboat being attached to its side whether we like it or not. If we just cut ourselves loose we will be crushed in their wake.

Facebook is the worst non Nestle company out there, but exactly zero corporations can be classified as sheep. If Google starts sniffing around don’t think they’ll be any better.

If the fediverse can’t survive meta it can’t survive. If decentralization’s Achilles heel is corporations then decentralization is not viable strategy in the current world and we should give up on it now.

Threads wasn’t first, and it’s going to be very very far from last. There is no escape from corporate interests in any g7 nation - other than being deemed too small to matter

I’m currently using my Lemmy account but I have a mas.to account also. Sometimes I like them being seperate, sometimes not.

I’m sure you know this, but for the benefit of folk who don’t: Mastodon is about building your own “algorithm” by simply following the sort of stuff that you’d want to see while scrolling. The important thing to remember is you can follow stuff not just people. Search for a hashtag, for example, and you can follow that as if it were a Twitter user. But to really get the most of it you can expand out and follow other ActivityPub things like Lemmy communities, Pixelfed users/albums, Peertube, etc.

To answer your question: I find following things on mastodon is better for consumption than commenting when it comes to Lemmy/Kbin posts. Commenting directly on the post is easy and you see all the primary replies, but finding replies of replies (and further down) gets tedious fast. But I still follow the Lemmy community for my city and a couple meme heavy ones via my Mastodon account.

Disagree with me if you want but I think we should be referred to as Motorheads.

It was certainly memorable

We used to play this in my highschool electronics class for some reason. We had 90 minute periods and it was always something like 20 minutes of book work, 50 minutes at our benches, and then 20 minutes of Lemmings.

AFAIK, it’s just commenting or posting.

Welcome newbie. Most of us were in your shoes recently. You’re already following the top tip: be engaged. To be counted as an active user you need to comment or post once a day. Nothing wrong with not being active, but the number of active users is a shiny sparkly number we’re all staring intently at for the moment.

If you are looking for the communities similar to Reddit, look at sub.rehab. You can filter that to just lemmy and kbin.

Enjoy. Your task now is to find the poop post. You’ll probably catch references to it soon, if you haven’t already.