The thing I want to know is - are they going to try and block any mention of Fedi or Lemmy on the canvas?
It just says 502 Bad Gateway. I'm not even sure if the block is intentional on their part, or a server issue of some sort.
The weird thing is that x.com sometimes loads into Twitter and sometimes doesn't, which shows that there's really no management in all of this.
There is an inherent problem with microblogging sites. They don't help you understand anything. All they do is give you small blips of information, text, memes, short videos, drawings, pictures. You can't state your full opinion and it is hard to be noticed or seen because most people don't bother getting into any topic in detail. On the other hand, social news plafrorms - like Lemmy and Kbin and even Reddit - encourage dialogue and discourage toxicity.
Microblogging has changed. Now, I much prefer talking about current events on a social news platform than on a microblogging platform. Right now microblogging sites are good for art or talking about general interests and things in your day-to-day life, maybe getting some news out of them (if the algorithm wants you to because algorithms suck when it comes to news, especially in a divided society such as this one), but not much more. Plus, the "balkanization" of microblogging with services like Tumblr, Threads, Bluesky and Mastodon makes it so that you divert attention to different things in different places, while things like the threadiverse can be a hub for pretty much everything because information doesn't flow as fast as on microblogging sites so you don't lose attention very quickly.
I understood the problems with attention span that plague Twitter long before the big switchover was even a thought, it's just that I didn't think of it too much back then.
The latest update has been amazing. It now works really fast even when I have a lot of extensions turned on and working in the background.
I'd argue it will become like Facebook, with the younger and more intelligent crowd leaving the site.
What we need to grow our community is to advertise Lemmy/KBin to the world and the federation concept as a whole
There's a difference between liberal left (which is what a majority of rational, secular people belive in), honest far-left, which is about socialist economics, eat the rich, BLM/anti-racism, anti-cop, gender abolition, human rights, actual anti-colonialism etc. and the kind of "far-left" that is "anti-west", which isn't really about honestly discussing these issues, but rather about dividing people, being contrarian to established things that work and make sense, and trying to paint everyone who disagrees even a tiny bit as the scum of humanity. On the other hand, any defederation further enlarges the rift between communities and makes being informed on what others think more cumbersome. Also, they think Beehaw, a place that is supposed to be inclusive, is fascist? I am not sure how it is. It's mostly left and liberal, really.
This explains things really well. Beehaw's goal is to be the tight-knit, invite only home for all kinds of people. It's not supposed to be a Reddit alternative, but a thing of its own. However, KBin and other instances aren't blocked yet from federating with them, and making a new instance is also an option, so it's not like all is lost. This is a reason why having more than one account helps.
You don't need more than two or three, it's all federated, so you can access most accounts and communities from all sites on any of these sites, which is one of my favorite things about this whole thing
I'm in love! Smooth, modern, and simple. One thing to note - the "hue" option for the theme in the settings is not very obvious at first or comfortable. We need some kind of visible color pallete or some squares with color options.
Also, Ctrl+Enter should allow me to post my reply immediately, but it doesn't.
People always tend to bounce back to the bigger platform.
How I like to deal with this is to use two or more platforms of the same kind.
Occasionally open Reddit, and occasionally Lemmy. Occasionally checking Fedi, and occasionally going on Twitter.
It may be disorienting at first, but it's better to get used to going on many websites than sticking to just two.
Second that. Wefwef is the best PWA-type web app in the world in my opinion. It's convenient, easy to learn, and it looks really nice and modern. Plus, it's incredibly stable.
I've been on Reddit for 10 years and now I use Reddit very rarely (only when I feel like a community on Reddit is the only place for me to get info about a specific thing). Now I frequent Lemmy (and Kbin) instead for news, discussions and memes.
The thing with this is that after shutting down Mixer, Microsoft started suggesting people to stream on Facebook Live instead. I'm still not sure how that partnership lead to the trademark of Mixer being given to Facebook Inc. at the time (I assume, before they became Meta).
Twitter is surviving because of its addicts. Now, it's likely to drop its userbase significantly. Plus, Musk restricting people who aren't logged in from seeing anything makes the website practically irrelevant, and if this is sustained, Twitter will die in a span of months, if not weeks.
I personally would prefer to keep my comments and posts and just delete the account. That way others don't have to go to cached and archived versions of pages if a subreddit isn't privated to see the full context of a comment, and it's just better for overall preservation.
Microblogs are a very cool feature, but it's a shame that it is one button on the top of the page that looks similar to the other buttons that you'd mostly ignore it if you weren't actively looking for it
Gestures aren't very convenient if I'm watching videos in full screen mode or when typing on the keyboard. There are many problems with gesture nav in Android, let alone MIUI. It's not worth keeping the default launcher for this.
How about downvoting?
I pretty much replaced Reddit with Lemmy, and might even delete my Reddit account at some point. I think I'm not visiting this website often enough, but that's because it's not as tantalizing as Reddit, especially on web. But I do want to visit this place more often. I don't want to miss out on what's happening.
both are up, but fmhy is down, maybe forever
I suggest you to go to lemmyverse.net to explore communities and instances.
Update: I think they fixed it now
The devs should just make this a default built-in thing like in Reddit.
PWAs only work on Chromium web browsers, though there are some that install on Firefox on Mobile. Yes, I can jsut use Brave, but it's syncing is awful and I bet there are old accounts of mine floating with an expired passphrase. Granted, I now save my bookmarks, passwords etc. in various other places where I can access them from any device anywere.
With the quick death of Twitter and the even quicker death of Reddit, we as a community are speedrunning the transition to federated social media. We only need good mobile UX and keeping the growth, and we're set. It feels like a post-apocalypse right now, and I am not sure how to feel about it.
And the web app WefWef which replicates the Apollo experience pretty well and runs on any device: http://wefwef.app
Haven't had this happen with Sync though. I guess proprietary ad-supported clients have the budget to make QoL improvements faster. Although, I do love Voyager as well!
I would prefer if you use the format of @motorcycles@lemmy.world. I wish there was a way to do links like that universally
Having to seperate kbin from the rest of the fediverse is really limiting, and makes the experience more fractured.
I am not useng Brave much as of recently, except for maybe mobile because of UWP apps. Firefox has become really fast in recent versions, and even when I have 8 extensions on, it still opens pages in a breeze. And it is more customizable than most of the other browsers. I do however like DDG Browser's minimalism and use of WebKit, so if I want a very minimal browser with barely any extras whatsoever that respects my privacy, I go to DDG Browser.
Used Mastodon for a bit a few years ago, but it wasn't popular enough so I didn't get much out of it at the time. Now, I basically prefer Mastodon and Calckey to Twitter, unless I want to see what my Twitter mutuals are doing, most of which are artists.
I'm only going there to help out fellow bronies (the MLP sub is going strong with their pixelart, but they did lock new posts until r/Place is over), and to see the protest art.
Stremio has been useless until I got fiber internet. Now it's my preferred way to watch stuff.
Well, I am able to visit the site now
It's faster now, and we finally have buttons for rich text features! Congratulations!
Update: upvotes are a bit broken and weird right now, I need to refresh every time to see that I upvoted. But that's really the only issue I see right now.
Exactly. Been using this website for now as a replacement for Reddit, and not really using Mastodon much. On Mastodon you have to refollow a bunch of people, Twitter still works for me as a microblogging platform, despite being owned by someone I do not respect in any way.
I'm not sure, but it is a 502 error so it's likely just some server-related thing
IMO, Reddit kept the people who didn't care about third party apps or the things that made Reddit Reddit years ago, before it turned into generic social media. Everyone who did care, left. And that's not really a victory.