What on earth is Plume?

What exactly is Threads?

How does any of this work?

I thought I had a handle on what Mastodon was, but then there was this threads thing, and Lemmy is apparently also part of the Fediverse but not Mastodon, I assume, and Threads is its own thing, and calckey and kbin exist, maybe, and I'd never heard of Plume until this post...I don't understand any of this. Reddit and Twitter are how I would generally follow this sort of happening but Mastodon and Lemmy are ghost towns I don't really understand how to use. I'm so utterly lost I don't even know where to begin with finding answers. I don't even have known unknowns, just unknown in unknowns.

This is the exact sort of thinking maegul was attempting to debunk..

you can use kbin to subscribe to microblogs such as mastodon and have them appear in your feed.

How does that even make sense? They're completely different types of content.

If Threads is just another Mastodon instance why does anyone care?

If everything is just decentralised instances what are kbin and Lemmy, exactly? They're not instances in themselves, are they?

I'd be happy enough with just new content TBH. Totally out of the loop on wrestling and movies without Reddit.

...ripped? From Netflix?

There are people on Mastodon?

But the entire point of getting the info from Reddit is so I didn't have to do that. Why watch seven hours of wrestling per week when I could watch two minutes of highlights and read discussions of the events?

My Mastodon feed averages one post every two or three days.

What I want to see is still hanging out on Twitter.

Three people I followed on Twitter made the move. Two of them eventually moved back. Everyone else stayed. That's where the discussion is.

as happened with Android recently that a large community can be closed down and redirected

What's this about?

People constantly spruik all the supposed benefits of this stuff but Reddit had lots of people posting about things and didn't keep going down every five minutes...

I could move instance but I don't know what to move to or what the benefits would be or how any of that works.

In this particular case he's married to one of the co-conspirators.

Notifications can be muted via the Android OS for any given app, if you don't want notifications you're welcome to do that. Making a lack of notifications compulsory is just stupid. I'm opening Lemmy more frequently now, having to check manually for replies, than if I could trust my empty notification bar and just not bother.