Gotta be honest, I am kind of curious to try this.

Homestar runner

I think what it means is that it doesn't add up all the little arrows across all posts and comments, by default. Although, I suppose an instance, external tool, or browser plugin could still do that.

I wonder how much of a userbase this thing has who have never been on Reddit, though. Probably not more than a handful?

Hmm I had a lot of trouble with jeroba, liftoff is working well for me at the moment though.

Is this a bad thing? I thought kind of, curating who you associate with is one of the benefits

Personally, I am fresh enough to all this that I feel it's prudent to kind of sit back on the discussion, and am leaning toward the "defederate" option.

However - I deleted my Facebook years ago, and never had Instagram or Twitter. It would be nice to interact with my own family and friends who do most of their online presence in places like that. So I kinda get it. I'm not after the mass-produced content but it would be cool to hear from people I know again that I've lost touch with because I'm stubborn about FB.

Just spitballing - and please consider that I haven't been at Lemmy long enough to know if this is a terrible idea - but what about an instance that hasn't blocked Facebook and other big corpos, but doesn't raise their content by default? Like what if you have to actively connect with people on them? Seems like a decent middle ground, until Facebook decides to break it anyway.

How did that go?

Are there numbers to back this up? I remember Pidgin being a contender to replace AIM for a time.

What kind of account linking did you have in mind?

Magazines? I apparently missed something so far.

Ah gotcha. Could you also link me to Lemmy-ui?

Interesting, could be because it's something you've had to do often enough that they're trying to rate limit you

Thanks for the response. Was that update recent? Could swear I didn't see so many options last time I checked...

I wonder whether a pull request would be welcome to allow users to specify a URL for a custom CSS file also.

I will defederate with anyone who dares associate with Kevin Bacon

That is, they’re here not because they love Lemmy - but because they hate Reddit.

Anyone remember the Digg exodus? This was exactly how Reddit got big.

Anyway I do think it's a little more than just hate, though. I have poked around at Lemmy before but I'm starting to take it more seriously because I actually cannot use Reddit on my phone anymore.

What kind of help you need? I'm down to look at it at least!

That seems to me to be one of the big issues - it looks like the available themes are down to the discretion of the instance admin. I dunno if allowing an arbitrary URL for a theme would be too much of a security hole, but it seems like that would quickly make each user able to use any theme they want.

There would not be a need to duplicate or sync all user databases across the fediverse to support SSO. In fact SSO already exists in other contexts and I haven't heard of any implementation that works that way. It's essentially accomplished by the authority and the service exchanging login tokens.

Wait - what kind of proof of identity do Gmail, outlook, Yahoo, etc require to make an email address?

Hm I have made at least 3 gmail addresses and didn't have to do this. And in fact their apps support account switching pretty easily, which seems to indicate that they don't really disapprove of making multiple accounts.

In fact the only thing they asked for was a backup email address in case you get locked out or they need to send security alerts, and that was optional.

Do you plan on cooking in space?

Thanks.

So not too dissimilar in terms of total numbers of users... however considering the growth of the whole internet's user base...

760 million total worldwide internet users in 2003, vs 4.7 billion today.

Based on these sources, then, 1.3% of all internet users were using XMPP in 2003, and 0.26% of all internet users in the fediverse in 2023. As a proportion of all users, that makes XMPP roughly 5x more popular back then than ActivityPub is now.

Your username is a hell of a reference, haha

It does ask whether you're a bot when your sign up, fwiw. Still honor system... And I don't know what difference it makes after sign up

I might be willing to help with this if you want to tackle it and are interested in help. I'm newish to Lemmy but want to get my feet wet. What tech stack do you prefer? Typescript is a very short leap from Javascript if you already know it, IMO.