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💡dim@lemmy.worldto
Fediverse@lemmy.world•The BBC on Mastodon: experimenting with distributed and decentralised social mediaEnglish
31·2 years agoexactly this, they can control what is on it, give their journalists, shows, etc accounts and it being a self contained hub for everything bbc, while interacting with rest of the fediverse.
Im guessing they will also get more statistics and information from hosting it themselves as well. its a no brainer.
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Fediverse@lemmy.ml•Alexandrite is a Beautiful Web Frontend for LemmyEnglish
3·2 years agoCombination of constan tleft sided subscriptions list, and posts in overlay mode, really is a pleasure to use
You don’t need to use loads. You can access all communities across all servers just using your single lemmy.world account (except beehaw)
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Fediverse@lemmy.world•Why people keep defending Meta/Threads?English
32·2 years agoYeah, its sad. one more place dead
Overreaction much? Threads isn’t even federated yet.
Worry about bolting the door once the horse is actually heading towards the stable.
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Fediverse@lemmy.world•Why people keep defending Meta/Threads?English
42·2 years agohalf the population voted for Trump
As a Brit, I can honestly say that neither I, nor anybody I know, voted for Trump. I’m pretty sure vast swathes of Germany, France, India, Senegal, did not vote for him either.
Russia… maybe…
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Fediverse@lemmy.world•Why people keep defending Meta/Threads?English
51·2 years agoI think long term its a “big deal”, but in the shorter term, the amount of panic among people who are actively switching to another instance because the instance they are on has not blocked threads yet is kinda ridiculous.
I am not leaving lemmy.world for another instance because they have not instantly blocked threads (who don’t even have connection set up to the fediverse in a way that lemmy can share content)
So in the short term (like today, this week, this month) it is not a big deal.
In the longer term it is a big deal and worthy of discussion.
But, because someone says “I am demanding lemmy.world unfederate from meta in the next 24 hours or I leave” does not mean they support Meta on the fediverse :D
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Fediverse@lemmy.world•Second largest Lemmy instance preemptively un-friends FacebookEnglish
71·2 years agoThere is no indication that they never will de-federate from Meta.
All they have said is rather than shutting the stable before the horse bolts, they are actually waiting for the horse to get in the stable first and then address if the door needs closing.
There really is no need to either defederate from meta, or make that decision right now anyway
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Fediverse@lemmy.world•Discussion: Do you think recent Twitter mess up will cause new wave of #TwitterMigration?English
3·2 years agoThis is the thing, it is much harder to replicate your network on mastodon.
Lemmy is easy, you just look for communities of interest and join them. It’s largely a one sided affair (you the user), sure, people do have relationships in smaller communities but it’s the exception rather than the norm.
Twitter I follow about 500-600 people, and have a shade over 4000 followers. This is a lot harder to rebuild on a new platform. And many of those connections are (online) relationships built up on the platform over many years.
Moving from Twitter is a bit like leaving school. You might maintain relationships with a few of your closest friends, but on the whole, you will not see most of those people again, however much you enjoyed your time with them
t could be due to coding issues
It’s self inflicted. This is what happens when you turn API’s off or make them unaffordable.
instead of using a low resource API entry, sites now switch to full on scraping which uses huge amounts of resources.
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Technology@beehaw.org•Elon Musk Says Twitter Is Going To Get Rid Of The Block Feature, Enabling Greater HarassmentEnglish
1·3 years agoHe will end up “compromising”.
You can block people, but only people without blue check marks.
Wanna harass someone, wanna be a troll, subscribe to Twitter blue and you can’t be blocked…

One of my favourite books, High Fidelity. I think I am in the age range and demo it was written for, so much rings true. When I heard there was a film coming out I was so excited, and then I read it was being moved from London and re-set in Chicago, and my heart sank.
Boy was I wrong. John Cusack was great, Todd Louiso was histerical, and it was Jack Black’s breakout performance. (I honestly am not sure he has been funnier since)
And the Chicago setting 100% worked, better than London would have