Lemmy isn’t currently usable by “normies” but we, the weird ones are already here, building great communities, fixing bugs, developing features. Give it 6 months, and Lemmy and kbin will be ready for prime time. The world will watch it rise like a giant middle finger shown to /u/spez.

Beehaw instance owners:

This is exactly what it felt like. It is amazing to see how well federation works - look at all the usernames from different instances! I enjoy the Cambrian explosion of new communities. It feels like conquering and taming a wild frontier.

And people are seriously considering federating with Threads if it implements ActivityPub. Things have been so crazy recently that I think If Satan existed and started a Lemmy instance, probably there would still be people arguing in good faith for federating with him.

Lol that’s like saying there’s too much porn on /r/gonewild

Trust me, the shit show is glorious. I even instinctively upvoted a couple of medieval memes but quickly realized what I was doing and closed the tab.

Well that sucks… for Reddit management

The more I think about it, the more it seems that the appropriate response is mutual defederation. It will cause a lot of unnecessary confusion if lemmy.world and the other affected instances don’t do that.

I’m not sure about that. It just sounds like good old Reddit drama which actually attracts people who will watch it unfold with morbid curiosity.

I was there at the early days of Reddit. I started using it in 2008, registered in 2009. Lemmy feels a lot like what Reddit was in the beginning, before the enshittification started. A community of actual people, where commenting and posting don’t feel like shouting into the void. Others are just like me, regular people who want to have a conversation and kill some time on the internet.

Here people actually react to what I post and write. And they react to the best possible interpretation of what I wrote, not the worst. And even if we disagree, we can still have a nice conversation.

Does anyone have a good theory about why the threadiverse is so much friendlier? Is it only because it's smaller? Is it because of the kind of people a new platform like this attracts? Because there is no karma? Maybe something else?

It won’t happen overnight. Reddit will be slowly bleeding users in the coming months and after lemmyverse reaches critical mass, there will be no going back.

Is that because most of your recipes are from the US?

It doesn’t make you exempt. Your home instance is lemmy.world so you’ll see a stale copy of all beehaw threads that stopped being updated at the time of the defederation. If you interact with these threads, users on beehaw won’t see your comments and upvotes. You’re basically shadowbanned because they defederated from your home instance.

That’s fine but the logical response to that is to appoint more moderators to deal with the influx of new users. Anyone who isn’t a self-absorbed control freak would at least think about doing that. Beehaw admins seem to think they are so special that only they can do a good job moderating their community.

Just posted this to Best of Lemmy: https://programming.dev/post/117487

We use Celsius like for everything else

BTW Satan is a very cool guy, follow him on Twitter: @s8n

someone watching you code in a google doc

I’ve had nightmares less terrifying than this

Oh wow someone finally explained it! Thanks!

Due for the iPhone is excellent. It's a reminder app that nags you every five minutes until you get The Thing™ done. Before I started using it, I had a problem with forgetting reminders once they appeared. This never happens anymore and I actually manage to get some things done!

Exactly! This is a really important feature to implement

Well, there’s this place:

• link for kbinauts: New Communities
• link for lemmings: New Communities

My new community got quite a few subscribers from there. Just make sure to post relative links using both the Lemmy and kbin routes (/c/ and /m/).

EDIT: oh, I almost forgot, there actually is a site for community discovery: Lemmy Browser. I don’t think it currently lists kbin communities but we could ask them to (or if it’s open source, someone could implement it).

Fair enough.

Honestly lemmy/kbin already has enough users to be an interesting place. I wasted more time here in the last few days than I used to on reddit.

Eerily accurate

You can also use it as a PWA, it will be just like a normal app

I’m 37 and with medication and various time management strategies I actually managed to build a pretty normal life. So there is hope, just don’t expect to be the hyper-organized productivity machine you think you need to be.

First, thank you for the detailed response.

Second, I think you finally convinced me to delete my FB. I will link to this comment wherever possible to show people what a terrible company Meta is.

Yeah, the situation seems pretty clear

Some of the /r/ExperiencedDevs mods are running the programming.dev instance and most Star Trek-related subreddits moved to startrek.website, so it’s already happening.

Thank you, these are excellent tips! Btw here is the community: https://programming.dev/c/auai (!auai@programming.dev) - I didn't want to mention it because I didn't want my post to sound like cheap self-promotion, but I guess I'm a bit too shy in this regard.

The icon and the cover image are terrible, I'm planning to replace them later.

This describes 99% of AI startups.

The company I work for was considering using Mendable for AI-powered documentation search. I built a prototype using OpenAI embeddings and GPT-3.5 that was just as good as their product in a day. They didn’t buy Mendable :)

I hope you'll like it! It's the only app i've found that actually delivered on its promise of being ADHD-friendly.

Oh definitely. I've been on a continuous Lemmy/kbin binge since Friday. This place is way more enjoyable than reddit because:

• Your voice matters. People actually upvote and reply!
• There is no karma! One less thing to obsess over (though you can see how many posts/comments a user has made).
• The content is much more interesting and reminiscent of the early days of Reddit.
• Maybe I'm too nerdy but I like how clean the site is.
• There is absolutely zero commercial interest across the entire lemmyverse and it's awesome. You can talk to actual people and have fun!
• It feels magical that there are all these different Lemmy and kbin servers and you can see people from 10 instances talking to each other in the same thread.

Which is why it was kind of an asshole move by the beehaw admins to defederate. They caused endless confusion for the average user.

Yes, I’ve also experienced this. I called it “reminder inflation” but alarm fatigue is a much better term!

I think the incentives are a bit different here. If we can keep the threadiverse nonprofit, and contribute to the maintenance costs of the servers, it might stay a much friendlier place than Reddit.

I’ve read somewhere that people who have ADHD are often also autistic. Is it possible that you have undiagnosed mild autism?