Fediverse

Lemmy just reached a new milestone: 1 million posts, across 1,323 servers....

A ton of countries have a decently active Lemmy instance, including the English-speaking ones (UK, AUS, NZ, ZA)....

Automatically creating a shadow account for everyone on Instagram?...

Lemmy.ml has now blocked Threads.net

Afaik, whenever an Activitypub instance has defederated from another it has always had to do with some combination of bad user behavior, poor moderation, and/or spam. Are the various instance admins who have decided to preemptively block threads.net simply convinced that these traits will be inevitable with it? Is it more of a...

We’re seeing an increase from 53k active users at the beginning of July to 72k active users at the time of this post....

Hi everybody, I’m a UI/UX designer and I wanna contribute to the community here with my expertise. Here is a quick prototype for a Android Lemmy app with Material You Design, it’s a simple and customizable app. With this app, I also want to improve the experience when exploring different servers....

I strongly encourage instance admins to defederate from Facebook/Threads/Meta....

In some of the music communities I’m in the content creators are already telling their userbase to go follow them on threads. They’re all talking about some kind of beef between Elon and Mark and the possibility of a boxing match… Mark was right to call the people he’s leaching off of fucking idiots.

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/1800581...

This has come to mind because all the chatter about Meta federating....

I just read this point in a comment and wanted to bring it to the spotlight....

A lot of people dislike it for the privacy nightmare that it is and feel the threat of an EEE attack. This will also probably not be the last time that a big corporation will insert itself in the Fediverse....

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Found this post super informative as it relates to Mastodon, and thought Lemmy might also benefit from this perspective. I’m not sure I share his optimism, but his points seem sound to dampen some of the alarm bells over Meta joining the Fediverse.

Lemmy.world grew from about 51k users when third-party reddit apps started to shut down to about 84.8k users at the time of this post....

As Lemmy starts maturing, there starts being so many communities out there that it’s pretty hard to keep track. I’ve been browsing for about a month now, here’s a list of popular communities I’ve subscribed to that others would find interesting!...

I shared bits and pieces of this before, but it’s officially up and running now: www.search-lemmy.com...

I have been on the edge with twitter and reddit for a while and I have finally deleted my accounts that I have had for a very long time there. They are no longer the places I used to know, even more so with twitter. I am ready for my new time here and on mastodon....

Lemmy.world grew from around 51000 total users the moment 3rd party reddit apps started to shut down on June 30 to 71000 total users at the time of this post (July 1). That’s a 40% growth in about 12 hours!...

You know how people looked at the dumb decisions of #StocktonRush and said don’t get in the #Titan ?...

From 2,997 active users across all lemmy instances at the beginning of June, the number increased to 52,797 by June 30th. Source....

There are directories of Fediverse projects:...

I’ve spent more than 7 years in Mastodon, and in my experience, new users always come in with a Twitter mindset, then getting a cultural shock because they come to Mastodon expecting a Twitter experience and end up finding something strange and bizarre....

Was using Lemmy.ca as my home instance for a while, now it’s gone. Just wondering what happened or where I can find out.