OMG, OMG, is that @adinfinitum@lemmy.film??

OMG, can I have your upvote??? Ahhhhhhh!!

OMG I love Mastodon and my instance (mas.to). Left Twitter for Mas about 8 months ago - I love following hashtags even more than people. There’s some great gems to follow though. For both Twitter, and now Reddit, I left for Fedi and just never went back. Facebook was another cold turkey quitting, no alternative for that one, that was years ago now.

I switched instances just so I could be on one that had downvotes because I passionately believe downvotes give immediate power to of self moderation to the users. However, I'm very light on downvoting. I only downvotevote stuff like the OP was talking about or if something is technically incorrect and damaging to a thread. But again I'm very light on downvoting, as I was on Reddit before. I usually ignore something that I simply don't agree with or think is too silly, etc.

Cheugy

Holy shit, what a dumpster fire

Okay, this is funny

Lol fuck I love Lemmy 💕

If you’re on beehaw they may have just defederated from you /s

Yeah, this was bound to happen. The Internet was designed to be decentralized and then we went ahead and made social network platforms that were so popular that hundreds of thousands of users conglomerated into a centralized server (or server cluster technically), completely defeating the purpose. It took time, but this is exactly how it's supposed to be.

It seems to run on some form of electricity!

All this talk about “well, the UX”, “if the servers can”, “but the big companies”, bla, bla, bla. I’m here right now. There is nothing else as far as I’m concerned. Twitter and Reddit are dead to me and I absolutely love Mastodon and Lemmy. I quit Facebook many years ago and never found an alternative for that, outside of starting a shared photo group on iOS with my family.

You better start believing in fediverse alternatives…you’re in one.

It’s crazy, they were doing good. Then, past several months, garbage.

Who’d you switch to?

Can we please make this the top post in the fediverse?

I would prefer that, unfortunately, it is real.

I’m off to my cabin in the woods

Bloody hell

Edit: Reminds of the pimp my ride meme. “We made you an OS so you can VM your VM inside a VM!”

Me: Here, take my upvote!

Kbin: What am I supposed to do with this??

(But seriously, you’re right, it’s awesome)

You son of a bitch… /s

I copy, I paste. That is all.

– OP (probably)

I am serious. And don't call me Shirley.

Now I understand every dwarf’s shit’s emotional right now. But listen up! I gotta three point plan to fix everything!

For simplicity, you can just add Kbin.social to the Fediverse cloud in the second row. You'll see all the same content that we all see, but with a different coat of paint.

Think of it like viewing the Internet with different browsers chrome, Firefox, or Safari.

There are some functional differences to KBin, like the ability to boost, which is like a Twitter retweet, but without getting into the weeds on that stuff, it really is just the same thing with a different interface.

Nice, good to know! And you were awesome in the Suicide Squad series

This right here. Pisses me off so much. I would be much happier to see an ad that’s up front and lets you know it’s an ad (different tile BG color, etc). I’d be much less inclined to even use third party apps if the ads weren’t so damned deceptive.

Yeah, I'm basically in this boat. My OS is what brings my notifications together, and makes clear distinctions between the different apps I utilize. I don’t need one app to do everything. I use signal for sensitive business, having conversations about projects and sending credentials to coworkers. I use Teams for general work conversations. I use iMessage for nearly all other casual conversations - of those maybe 30% are SMS.

I’m on VLemmy! 👋

Another way to look at it is like different flavors or the same operating systems like Linux with kde vs gnome. Or if you’re not a computer buff, Windows 10 or Windows 11. More or less…

The greed is…palpable

Add your image to the link rather than the body so we can see it while scrolling.

This is just a test reply

Nope, I should’ve caught that, thank you. I was like wow I’m in tech but you learn new terms every day. Lol

It is unfortunately real

Fuck, take my money

Yeah, I think it’s a great idea for larger groups or corporations.

I do love counting in binary!

This is exactly what they said they wouldn’t do!!

Are we in leopardsatemyface??

Yes! Thank you.

Yeah, I know. Some of those terms come from Mastodon (the Twitter alt). In Mastodon, you can boost posts (tweets) which is akin to a retweet (without quoting). And a Favorite is similar to liking a tweet, although Mastodon makes it so that you can see all your favorites in a list, which is nice.

How those operations function on a Lemmy instance, I have no idea. From what I remember Kbin was supposed to blend these together so you could use your one Kbin account to check out Lemmy communities and Mastodon posts in one spot?

The whole magazine thing, yeah, just not needed in my opinion - call it communities.