Good stuff! Thanks for all that you guys do for Lemmy and the open internet

Sounds like it sorts out the right kind of people? I’m not aware of anyone actually asking you to write an essay, no one would do that. 2 short answer questions does not an essay make.

It’ll drop a little, but to a significantly higher level than it was before.

Makes sense, posts can be (and are) automated via repost bots. Commente and genuine interaction is impossible to fake.

👋 hello!

If you create a new post and you mention the community, it creates a new top level post. For example putting @[email protected] in a post will post it to the Lemmy community on Lemmy.ml.

Would be great to see subject lines supported in Mastodon. Anything that helps intercompatibiity is a win-win

Indeed. However, understand that Lemmy has like 100K people or so, while Mastodon is over 9 Million. Much easier to build a topical instance on a larger platform. Lemmy will have it’s time soon.

@[email protected] is creating a hosting platform that supports Lemmy called “Space Host”. Once his platform releases, and it becomes much easier to run a Lemmy instance, we are going to see a lot of people here in the “Lemmyverse”.

The formatting works perfect my instance, v0.17.2. Do you still need to upgrade?

Might be a good time to spin up some more instances, to brace for the impact of the reddit migrants.

great update, lots of good quality of life features. rip the c/main community, may you live in peace

I haven’t tested it enough, but that does seem to be the case. For both users and communities you can block/unblock on their page or in your user settings page.

Nice. Medium is a blog-type site, right? Wish they mentioned if they were working on having the blogs be federated.

Alternatively, on my privacy-focused server, we only ask for full name and social security number. No passwords on any of our accounts either, just click your name from the drop-down list of our registered users! Easy and privacy focused! join us at privacy-mastodon.net

And thats a “problem” with decentralization: no good way to count a “total user count”.

Regardless of what the total number actually is, each source shows a very clear increase of ~2 million new accounts in the past month. Its great that so many more people are coming into the fediverse and getting sitautated here.

Regarding Mastodon being slow, on the ~50-100 instance I’m a member of, Mastodon is always very fast, just limited to my internet speed. I know that the larger instances can slow down, especially during peak load.

To me I feel there are 2 separate uses of the fediverse: creation or consumption. Consumption is technically universal, I can use any fediverse account to follow any other account (with some software exceptions that you pointed out). Creation of content needs to be done on local accounts (at least right now). To create a top level post on a Lemmy community, you need a Lemmy account. Same thing when uploading a video on a Peertube instance. Hence my suggestion for a way to properly link accounts across the fediverse. That way it’s easier to “verify” that the account that uploaded videos on tilvids.com is the same person that posts it on lemmy.ml