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Cake day: June 9th, 2023

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  • Lemmy’s cross posts are separate posts that just happen to link to the same thing. so only replies to the original post would be sent with the current design.

    that said, i severely doubt Lemmy will gain anything from this. publishers will not be sending out their posts to any communities, and i highly doubt they will expose any fep-1b12 group actors you can subscribe as a community.

    kbin/mbin with it’s ability to follow users may work better, assuming people test their federation with software other than mastodon, and accept any of the interoperability bugs as actual bugs instead of ignoring them. (lemmy itself is no stranger to this: the fact that users and communities can share the same username break quite a bit)





  • some ISPs may be blocking cat box because there’s a significant amount of porn being uploaded on there, but that’ll happen with any file host as open as catbox

    hosting files, especially videos, are expensive (hence why most instances disable video uploads) and, if public, has a hefty moderation workload, so anything of reasonable size (and isn’t personal) will end up either enshittified a la imgur or die.

    and we shouldn’t expect everyone to have their own webservers just to share their silly stuff on the net. this is a difficult problem to solve





  • (talking about microblog fedi here, Lemmy/threadiverse is it’s own thing)

    don’t do hashtags. hashtags (especially common ones like #memes) are overrun by repost bots and low quality garbage.

    the trick is to be on a small-to-medium instance you vibe with (1k active users seems to be the sweet spot. anything larger than 2k I’d avoid. do NOT join any flagship instances like mastodon.social), follow fun people from your local timeline, and see who they boost. and follow up the boost chain until your timeline is sufficiently fun.