The big difference is the teeth.

Well that and Mammoth never integrated ActivityPub

This is a joke right? You are aware its a play off of Leningrad (now St. Petersburgh), right?

Word!

If by here you mean lemmy.ml, the first lemmy server, you are certainty correct. Lemmy was originally authored by Marxists-Leninists to counter right-wing reddit. Or even more extreme lemmygrad.ml which I believe was the second Lemmy server, established by Stalinist kicked off of lemmy.ml for being too authoritarian.

Really? I first joined the 'verse in 2011 & I hardly ever see anyone talking about the Kernel Linux, and that’s something I would like to learn more about. There is frequently conversations about great Free Software projects, mostly from an end users perspective, including the GNU/Linux desktop OS but even the Lemmy Linux community is practically silent about the Kernel which makes up the backbone of most of our technical lives. Even mentioning Android/Linux practically gets you booed out of there.

#HisNameIsJohnMastodon @johnmastodon@mastodon.social

The Legend of John Mastodon

so no, you are not aware of anything on that particular webpage that I linked to that is untrue.

THanks for not answering my questin.

Are you aware of anything in that particular link that is untrue?

anyone surprised doesn’t know lemmy.ml

yep. they’re real people work real lives that can’t spend all their time looking at that shit. THANKS FOR REACHING OUT TO REAL PEOPLE AND CREATING A REAL COMMUNITY

The truly toxic idea, though, is that Mastodon instances should not only refuse to federate with Threads, but they should refuse to federate with other servers that do federate with Threads.

yep. The #Fediblock idea of “i don’t care if they are nice people, they don’t block the mean people” is crazy. At that point why not just set up your own PHPbb?

And its not new https://fediverse.wiki/wiki/The_Great_Wall_of_Mastodon

To be fair, most Americans don’t know anything exists outside of America.

That’s what they did with Google Buzz, and that was even less popular than G+ every was.

/u/Omsorg@lemmy.world Are you on Diaspora? I heard that’s where most of the Google+ refugees ended up.

unless one just feeds you tons of ads and harvests user data. That’s one reason why Gab, which is a fork of Mastodon, was defederated from most of the 'verse before Gab just went ahead and turned federation off.

You could create a Lemmy instance that made it far less user friendly to connect to other communities, and “forced” other users to join its communities because ‘that’s where everyone is’. That’s one of the reasons why there is so much fuss over how to handle threads.net when/if they turn on federation.

I think a big help to avoid this is if any “official” apps automatically point to something like lemmyverse search or Fediverse Observer rather than Join Lemmy or any single instance.
Mastodon.socialwas already by far the largest before the only app named “mastodon” available in the major mobile repositories was built to automatically have you create an account on mastodon.social to “Make it easier for the normies”.

The fact that I dont’ even know the name of any lead developers of #lemmy as opposed to /u/gargon@mastodon.social is probably a good sign too.

You never know. 20 years ago I didn’t think my mom would ever figure out how to use email, let alone spend free time on an online social media platform. Nothing is forever.

I had heard of someone setting up their Friendica Forum with SMS and email add-ons (maybe they used IFTT? I’m not sure) so that their family members could participate in the “group chat” in the preferred way of each individual. They had indicated that eventually most of them switched to Friendica so that they could get the full experience. I’ve never done it though.

yeah, that should work for add contact. I’d recommend trying just https://nytimes.com and see what happens. If still trouble I’d recommending posting in the support forum !helpers@forums.friendi.ca those guys are super helpful

I’ve been surprised how many sites do, particularly those that don’t advertise they do.