@Zagorath I see a lot of detergent products advertising “no pre-wash required” on their packaging, at least here in AU.

The beauty of the Fediverse is that it doesn’t matter if it does. There could be instances like Voat/Poal, and there could be instances like pre-Digg-exodus Reddit, and if the divide is big enough the two sides will defederate from each other and won’t communicate. This is a solved problem in the microblog side of the Fediverse (Mastodon/Pleroma/Misskey/etc), where there is a huge variety of instances. Sign up on an instance whose rules and moderation you prefer, and you’ll be fine.

Yes, it is. You can even do new posts by tagging a community such as @lemmy (this one). Put your title on its own line at the start of the toot, and probably put the tag at the end of the toot otherwise it messes up the formatting in the title.

Yeah, but then you’re on an instance that is struggling with load and not always available. That’s why people want to move. I am ahead of the curve because I never joined in the first place :P

Naming things is one of the two most difficult issues in IT, alongside cache validation and off-by-one errors.

@BrokenToshy Yes and no. Your comment shows up to me like a toot and I’m replying to it with a toot, so in that sense, yes. I could even boost your comment to my followers like a toot. But the Lemmy software was designed around communities and groups, and it currently lacks the capacity to do certain one-on-one interaction the way a Mastodon user can. Since you can only use your account from your home instance, that does limit you a bit in how you can interact.

I would say “If you’re posting here, aren’t you signed up by definition?”, but I’m posting from Mastodon, so I am literally my own counter-example. I don’t actually have an account on any Lemmy instance.

Same for me.l, I’ve played since Alpha 1.1 and put likely thousands of hours in over the years. As for games where I actually have logged hours to look at on Steam, it’s Space Engineers.

I already have Mastodon accounts, but kbin is looking like a very attractive middle ground for being able to interact with a lot of different fedi types. I am just not a fan of how it thinks upvote means boost.

And on another level, you’ve got Fediverse-specific CDNs like https://jortage.com/ to offload and dedupe media storage.

@wiki_me Sorry, will do so next time. Wasn’t aware it existed – my view is a bit limited from here.

I think if I’m replying to a thread that wasn’t created on Lemmy in the first place, I have to tag @lemmy in the reply, otherwise it won’t become a comment.

For Mastodon, it depends how popular you get. The more followers on other instances you have, the more instances your instance has to send your post to whenever you make a post.

For Lemmy, I think the equivalent would be if you were hosting a community and you/others are posting in it, it then has to send to everyone who’s subbed. If you’re only hosting an instance to have an account, then it’s probably pretty lightweight.

As average monitor resolution grows slowly over time, the average user interface scales up to match the size of the monitor, to the point where it becomes uncomfortably cramped to work in a window that’s sized at or below half a monitor dimension.

Old operating systems used to operate entirely in a 400x300 pixel display (Mac OS 7 for example). A lot of modern applications probably won’t even let you shrink the window that small.

Also r/HFY (Humanity, Fuck Yeah — a creative writing sub)

I had the same experience when I joined the Fediverse, I kept coming across people who I recognised and had no idea were also on there.

Thank you, I’ll keep it in mind!

I’m still looking around for an instance to join, right now I’m using my existing Mastodon account. I’m leaning towards lemmy.blahaj.zone currently, but I’m also wondering how many new instances will pop up in the next month.

@scrubbles Do you run your own instance?

Over the years I’ve unsubscribed from more and more of Reddit’s default subs. I think I’m only still subbed to aww and til, and I rarely comment on those. Almost all my engagement is with niche subreddits for my topics of interest via a third party app, so until now I’ve avoided all the rot. If I lose the app, I lose interest in Reddit.