Great minds think alike (was not aware, technically reposted from Mastodon)

Several redundant solutions already exist, for example https://tagpush.app/ (limited list of tags offered to follow), instance relays (work only between instances participating in one of them), or https://fedi.buzz/ and its relay (instance admin can add a relay for a particular tag, with all public posts known to relay being available to the instance).

Anyone who is on Reddit and UpScrolled will definitely enjoy Lemmy.

well, the Lemmy UI is technically another webapp and one should be able to host it as standalone or even as PieFed frontend. That would be cursed :D

Last time when I tried to subscribe to a flipboard magazine from PieFed, I received no post from there. I have just added a ticket

Neither Lemmy nor PieFed are able to follow Mastodon users, but Mastodon is able to follow/subscribe to Lemmy/PieFed communities, post to them and talk to their users. Following a busy Lemmy community from Mastodon will make the community flood a Mastodon user’s feed, though.

Mastodon can follow any Pixelfed account and vice versa, but Pixelfed will see only posts with photos and Mastodon will see no more than 4 photos per post. Pixelfed is able to post to a Lemmy community, but I did not try to follow a comm from there.

In fact, Mastodon is able to follow any account from any fediverse app, but all the content from this will be reduced to the lowest common denominator: a post, maybe with formatting.

Very specific community.

and UpScrolled already having questionable ethics, this may be the path forward.

I am definitely Out of the loop on this.

Another bleh moment: an AI slop animation of Winter Olympics history.

Is anyone watching it?

PieFed has its own chat rooms on Zulip. You can log in there with your piefed.social credentials.

00s enbodied in an instance. Sopuli even after the Great Migrations retains its vibes, slightly different than several fledditor Reddit clones, like the largest instances. I like that.

Click at the Lemmy logo and you will be able to choose it

Misskey (and its forks) allows to pin posts of yours or other users to a Clip.

Thanks, the English language has saved its dignity right now.

(unlike the Cambridge Dictionary website which is apparently infected with some malware which redirects to some shady “error-report dot com” site)

Apparently there is no such an idiom in English as “to dig someone/oneself in” and one has to use e.g. let oneself in for sth or land someone in sth.

Sincere condolences.

… but actually one cannot describe Lemmy’s pitch in one simple sentence, because its main difference is: Reddit but no Spez, fora but connected to each other (and we call this “federation”), and Mastodon but with better topic and content discovery. Any attempt to shorten this will be more or less inaccurate.

So, main Lemmy features, listed under the “Join an instance”, “Apps”, “Explore random instance”, etc., IMHO should look like this:

No ads. No tracking. No meddling.

Posts and comments on your feed are determined only by your settings and users’ votes. All moderation actions are public and viewable using a modlog. We do not block third-party apps. Lemmy is a free software and you can check it for yourself.

(we are practically saying Reddit without Spez)

No single overlord. No isolation

There are dozens of Lemmy websites and you can choose your experience with different vibes, topics, regions and moderation approaches. Yet every instance connects to other ones (forming the Fediverse) and allows you to seamlessly talk with each other, even outside of control of Lemmy creators!

(fora but not siloed. Discussion viewable regardless of where you are logged in)

Know the entire discussion on the topic

All the talk on Lemmy happens on communities. Subscribe to any of them and you will receive complete threads of conversation, regardless where you are signed in. A search, which actually works.* Decentralised, but not fragmented.

(Mastodon but actually not fragmented)

All three “features”/“upsides” of Lemmy are related to each other, somewhat like rock-paper-scissors. All form one pitch of a platform which combines the best features of Reddit, fora and Mastodon solving downsides of these at the same time. It would make sense to display these on the carousel.

*does the search on Lemmy work better than on e.g. Reddit? A “better search than on Mastodon” claim would be plausible, anyway

Your own discussion network

YouTube being more popular is okayish. An overtake by TikTok would be worrying…

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