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People often ask me, “How do I interact with Lemmy”?

Well, in my previous post, I just interacted with Lemmy by quoting @Gaywallet@beehaw.org‘s post. If you’re on Calckey or Misskey (or anything that supports quotes), this will look seamless.

On Mastodon, the Lemmy post will be rendered as a URL. If I wanted to make that Lemmy post look like “native Mastodon”, I could have just boosted it, but I wanted to add additional commentary.

The point, though, is that I’ve interacted with a Lemmy post on a platform that is not Lemmy. This is possible through ActivityPub. The Fediverse is quite magical in that sense.

If you’re on Mastodon, Pleroma, Calckey, etc., I urge you all to follow Lemmy and/or Kbin communities and users and start interacting with them. It’s important that former Redditors see a bustling community.

—@atomicpoet

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This is a must-read post from an admin of beehaw.org on why they will not be forking #Lemmy. I largely agree with @Gaywallet@beehaw.org.

Lemmy may not be perfect. Perhaps it’s even problematic. However, it makes the world less worse than it already is — and less worse is better than worse.

That’s what’s important to me.

Now if Lemmy proves to be too much of a barrier, there is #Kbin. But since Kbin is so young, it’s not a perfect replacement for Lemmy either — though it’s turning out great.

My own goal is to facilitate growth of the Fediverse. For this, #SpaceHost will be supporting both Lemmy and Kbin.

RE: https://beehaw.org/post/524300

—@atomicpoet

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Hiring a software engineer in their late 40s:

Pros:
* Understands your stack better than you do after glancing through the repo for five minutes.
* Will rewrite said stack 2x as fast, and half as buggy if you let them.

Cons:
* Gives zero fucks.
* Knows we’re not *really* like family here.
* No, seriously, absolutely zero fucks given.

Do not cite the deep magic to me, product manager, I was there when it was written.

—@saramg