Yeah, being able to use Lemmy from Mastodon is great in theory but it’s terrible in practice. I’ve been using Mastodon since 2019 but wouldn’t waste my time trying to use Lemmy with that account. The experience just sucks for mastodon users and lemmy users alike. Fortunately, I’ve somehow managed to figure out how to juggle two separate accounts lol.

It’s been invite-only for all five and a half years I’ve been there so I wouldn’t expect that to ever change. Fortunately it’s really easy to get an invite code. Just post in the official subreddit and the mods or another user will give you a code. It’s just enough of a minor roadblock that it helps filter out bad actors.

Personally I prefer Lemmy. But if you’re like OP and looking for conversation focused alternatives tildes is worth joining.

Back at ya Blaze, it’s always a pleasure running into the other moviesandtv regulars!

It’s too bad about Artifact shutting down. I jumped on that app as soon as it was publicly available last February and thought it had a lot of potential.

If anyone’s looking for a good FOSS RSS Reader for Mac and iOS I highly recommend NetNewsWire.

https://netnewswire.com/

https://github.com/Ranchero-Software/NetNewsWire

Some researchers and community leaders suggest Canada’s colonial history and recent discoveries of potential burial sites at former residential schools may have lit the fuse.

Hmm… That or Canada has suddenly developed a thriving Black Metal scene.

One issue is that lemmy is too anonymous and that leads to it not attracting content creators that don’t actually want to be anonymous and want to create a presence.

So what? I find it strange how many people on link aggregators like reddit and lemmy/kbin don’t seem to understand the point of a link aggregator. There are plenty of places to go on the internet if you want to create “a presence.” But link aggregators aren’t it. The closest it gets are novelty accounts and power users.

A lot of reddit’s issues trace back to the fact that they stopped being satisfied with being a link aggregator because there isn’t much money in it. It’s been all downhill ever since they started morphing into a more traditional social media website and trying to attract more content creators by doing things like making userpages their own subreddits and adding half-assed knockoff “features” from more popular social media sites/apps. Lemmy isn’t profit driven and therefore doesn’t need to parrot reddit’s mistakes. There’s nothing wrong with link aggregators being link aggregators.