why do people choose it over other instances?

Non-techy people want a big instance, but .world goes offline too often and .ml doesn't allow new sign ups.

Fediverse will never get a sensible percentage of people

If Fediverse will reach a "sensible amounts of people" by sacrificing all of its goals (no ads, no data harvesting), what's the point of it? You can already register an acc on threads and enjoy full Meta experience.

everything new gets blocked

Meta isn't 'everything new'. It's 'just' an awful company with unethical business model.

for no reason

Seems more like you dismiss any reasoning against federation as 'it’s all paranoia'.

I'm not sure why Firefox must look like a GNOME app by default. IMHO, looks really bad.

Also, how am I supposed to move this window?

So, I have a few options. (kinda in order)

Linux Mint is the easiest one from the list, but all of them except Solus are fine. I personally recommend Mint or Debian, Debian Sid if you want latest kernel.

KDE Plasma (love the looks of it, though is my hardware enough?)

KDE should work fine, maybe with a bit of tweaking?

XFCE - LXDE - LXQT (because of “lightweightness”)

I daily drive Xfce and even on a beefy PC this DE is really great. It may not look cool by default, but it's very customizable and powerful. And Thunar (xfce file manager) is really good now.

Cinnamon

Another good option

it’s because of Infinity for reddit.

There's a fork of infinity for Lemmy, called Eternity. Not sure if it's usable now though.

It may speed up your boot time, at least it happened to me on Void (maybe the reason is how minimal this distro is though). I personally prefer runit over systemd in how it handles services, but honestly you most probably won't notice a much difference - definetely not worth reinstalling whole system.

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We don't do that here

That's not an imageboard, we want actually civil discussion here.

You can't just write a whole essay about a drama without explaining what was that drama you're discussing. But I suppose it's about lemmy.world blocking piracy communities, hexbear and defederations between medium-sized instances.

For anyone who's sick of these "dramas" (they're always so pitiful in social media tbh) I suggest moving to a smaller instance. I've done it and finally can communicate with people about my interests without seeing yet another defedi request from someone on my instance.

Also, next Lemmy version will probably introduce a way for users to block instances, so it'll be better soon.

And despite the existence of fedidrama, that stuff has stabilized.

I'm pretty sure dramas on mastodon (and other microblogging software) have never ended, at least distant noises from these places reach me sometimes.

People moved to smaller communities and stopped being hostile to decentralization.

Isn't mastodon basically centralized under mastodon.social? I'm not participating in microblogging part of fedi so I genuinely don't know the situation there, but the statics on fedidb.org shows that mastodon.social has almost 4 times more users than the second largest server.

that just generally the most toxic Redditors migrated over

In my experience Lemmy users are so, so, so much better than users on large subreddits. If someone experience a lot of toxicity here, you probably on a wrong instance or community. For me, lemmy.world seems like the most toxic non-political instance. So I suggest people to move on from there.

This drop in users is natural though - not every person that got here with a hype train was expected to stay here, just like users who joined Lemmy just to wait until protests are over. Some users may switched from lemmy to kbin and are still with us, just using another software.

Before the exodux Lemmy was really empty. That's why people are so optimistic about the future of the threadiverse.

Deciding on a single community to rule them all is a bit hard because of defederation - shall we choose .world and we basically remove beehaw users from discussion, and .ml also has their defederation list. Communities like c/fediverse and c/lemmy must be available to everyone IMO.

Mobile-first, requires phone number, proprietary server-side, google play market.

Have you tried Nheko? I switched to XMPP some time ago, but when I used matrix Nheko was my goto. Also gomuks is another choice, runs in terminal

When there's too much people on the social media site, it becomes noisy and unfriendly. I can't remember any subreddit with more than 20k users being any good.

Quality > quantity

Following your logic we must federate with every CP and right-wing instance. Abusive parents would love your logic. "But we're your parents you're supposed to love us!"

Better native client support for the most part, but xmpp servers also show themselves better (faster, more stable...) than matrix.org I think more matrix users should consider using smaller instances tbh

This is a key one: follower portability. “Eventually, it should also be possible to enable creators to leave Threads and take their followers with them to another app / server,” Mosseri writes. “I believe that it’s important that creators own their relationship with their audience.”

How do they benefit from it though? 🤔

That isn't even a Thunar issue anymore, it was fixed in the last version half a year ago. It's more about stable release distros provide inferior experience yet again.

Nah, .ml is as old as lemmy itself, while .ee is a really young instance.

Pick any popular colorscheme, like dracula or catppuccin, get some good wallpapers and make a screenshot with your most-used (or just favourite) applications. Keep it simple

Just linking a similar tool because I haven’t seen it being mentioned yet: https://fba.ryona.agency/

It's made by kiwifarms though, they even included their favorite word at the end of the page.

Basically, nowadays Unix (or more formal POSIX) is a standard for operating systems to follow. Most modern operating systems are either derived from Unix (modern MacOS and Solaris), inspired by it (Linux and open-source BSDs) or at least POSIX-compatible (Haiku). Windows is neither of this - being monopoly they basically don't need to follow a standard when they can force everyone to implement their solution.

So yeah, Unix is an OS and Windows doesn't count.

As I see it, both cases are questionable people providing useful tools free for me to use.

Lemmy devs may have controversal political views, but their software is written with a good intention. KiwiFarms on the other hand use it to target instances.

If you think that’s what happens, please show me. That would be very interesting to know and might lead to me ceasing usage / recommendation.

I just see no reason to use a tool made by controversial people with awful intention if there's a good alternative with no such controversies. But you can decide for yourself, I just wanted to inform.

Oh, got ya! That's a neat feature, for sure. But it doesn't fix this concern:

comment being spread across the crossposts instead of having all of the discussion and reactions happening in the same place.

These are basically system requirements for Firefox (well, except for disk space, obviously). It doesn't matter much how lightweight your system is when you launch a modern web browser.

Exploding Heads gave up on Lemmy a few months ago.

How will they force their unethical business model on you?

Their ToS (another user already sent a link to it) says they will collect data of anyone interacting with users on their service.

There's this weird argument that our data is public so privacy violation is okay. But, even if it's technically possible to collect and analyze data of fedizens doesn't mean it's okay to do. If it would become known that some of the existing instances do this they will be immediately defederated by everyone. But of course it's different for Meta because they're such a nice company!

For some weird reason many people just plain ignore the existance of XMPP when they're discussing decentralized protocols. Is it because Matrix outshadowed it?

OS: Linux Mint DE: Xfce Colorscheme: Catppuccin Software on the first screen: LibreWolf, NeonModem Software on the second one: KVM, Pe, preinstalled terminal on haiku

Alt-right troll instance.

Meta is worse than gatekeeping.

.ml also has a lot of active communities though. While I agree .ml is better than .world, feeding any one of these won't be good for decentralization anyway.

Why wait?

User growth hasn't stopped, check this.

Again, you’re pulling explanations out of thin air - go ahead and prove that those users are switching to kbin over lemmy, use some data to back up your claim.

I said "Some users may switched" - I claimed nothing.

Or accept that we have a problem with adoption and as a community we need to fix it.

Lemmy is improving, mobile apps are in rapid development, and seems good (never used one so am judging from what I've heard), communities are being created everyday. No one in this thread said that Lemmy is in perfect state and we have nothing to improve. If you have some ideas on how can we make Lemmy better, you're free to share them.

How can we force this instance to federate with everyone though? If we centralize the discussion in a single place, we would put a lot of trust into maintainers of said instance. We can build "backup" instances for that purpose, but that would destroy the initial goal - to have a single discussion place.

There's a box to the right of domain names (the box with + and -), you can click on a left side of it to allow and on a right side to forbid it.

This function only blocks communities from an instance. You will still see posts and comments from these people on other communities. (And Threads users have no way to create a community on Lemmy.)

As a result, XMPP became worse off than it started and got practically forgotten by all but 1,5 nerds who keep it alive.

Is it even true? I doubt XMPP was ever popular outside of google's talk.

How will they merge moderation then? Every instance has their own set of rules. If it's done automatically, it will cause a lot of trouble in a long run.

!trendingcommunities@feddit.nl

Hexbear is a big and pretty old Lemmy instance, focused on lefty shitposting. Since they use their own fork with additional features, they weren't able to federate with the rest of Lemmy until recently. When they finally federated to a handful of biggest instances they caused a lot of drama due their unique culture and their political views. They've already been defederated from several instances.