Amanda Unvarnished

@dave

The thing we learned from RSS re twitter is unless people work together, and they refused to, the central service always wins.

In RSS that meant that subscription was a complicated process that browsers got in the way of, where in twitter it was one obvious click.

We could still pull this off but we need feature advantages and it has to be easy to subscribe, but bigger picture, people have to actively, religiously work together.

—@davew

every time i get a phony, emoji-ridden, faux “friendly” email from a corporation, it makes me want to go burn down their HQ

—@eri

BSD people are always like “we work really hard to ensure cross-platform functionality especially with our Linux cousins” and Linux people are just like “what the fuck is a BSD”

—@juliana

Things I learned today: You can’t update the #Lemmy UI without also updating the backend. Or else you get server errors. Anyway we’re running the latest RC of the UI on rblind.com now. We’re *also* running a development version of the Lemmy backend; that makes me less happy. I did say that rblind.com is still in alpha, though! Anyway some #a11y fixes for #blind folks are in: the upvote buttons are now toggles, selecting a community when posting works better on Android, expand and collapsed for threads are now toggles. Comment nesting still needs to be fixed, but I believe the PR for that was merged, it’s just not in a release yet.

—@fastfinge

It’s wild to me that there’s currently so much panic & fear about what #AI *might* do to “destroy” humanity, yet – at the same time – so little attention to the way that human behaviors are already, knowingly, putting billions of people & global biodiversity at tremendous risk. 🌍 #climatechange

—@Sheril

The #RedditMigration just got spicier 🌶

#Lemmy now has 135,369 accounts. That is tracking with my expectations.

But while #Kbin had ~7,000 accounts yesterday, it’s just shot up to 30,930 accounts.

While Lemmy is the 5th most used server software on the Fediverse, Kbin is now in 10th place and it’s growing at a faster rate than Lemmy.

A few days ago, I predicted that the #RedditMigration would result in 150,000-300,000 new accounts being created on the Fediverse. That expectation has already been met.

This #RedditMigration is fundamentally changing the course of the Fediverse. It’s moved the Fediverse from being primarily about microblogging to having more eclectic use cases.

While the #TwitterMigration validated that decentralized social media can appeal to millions of people, the #RedditMigration has validated that decentralized social media has man varied applications – both in the software and use case sense.

SOURCE: https://fedidb.org/software

—@atomicpoet