I wouldn’t exactly call what I was complaining about my first week reposts, but I definately had system shock while I was still figuring out how things worked.

I’d see 3 different communities, all about the same topic, and I’d subscribe to them all.

Well, if you have 3 communities all focused on the same subject, when there’s breaking news about that subject, they’re all going to post that same news story.

So in my feed I’d see the same url posted from 3 different instances. It’s not exactly a repost, but it feels the same.

I still don’t know what the solution for that is. Feels less like a me problem, and more like a systems concept problem. Instead of having 3 communities with 3 users each, I feel like it’d be better to have 1 combined community with 20 users.

Now you may be saying “heeeey, wait a second! 3+3+3 doesn’t equal 20!!!”. In which case, congrats, you passed American public school high school. But I feel like one community with more users to start with would attract more users going forward. Kind of like a snowball effect that a single split community of 3 never got the snowball rolling on.

I like the idea of decentralized, I DON’T like the idea of fractured, and there is a difference. Right now, Lemmy feels like both.

So you take the good, you take the bad, you roll it up, and what’dya get? The facts of life…the facts of life…

Exactly! Yes!

I get downvoted everytime I point out that a healthy network comes with users. Lots of users. Users of all kinds. Users you don’t agree with. Users you do agree with. I said that the userbase of threads being on Lemmy would be a culture clash, but it would be a sign of a growing fediverse concept.

Everyone else says if the threads users federated with Lemmy, they would personally block the instance. Which just shows how much of a bubble the people here want to live in.

I work at an airport. You will never see a more diverse group of people from a bigger selection of places than at an international airport. I don’t agree with all of them. I don’t agree with the majority of them. But I can converse with them. I can make small talk for 10 minutes.

I treat the fediverse as I treat the real world. I wouldn’t look at these people and say “You’re banished from my existence for having conflicting politic or religious beliefs! Begone from my presence! You do not deserve to exist in my world!”

But thats how people here treat “outsiders” or “normies”.

I want the fediverse concept to grow. I want the idea of a concept that’s immune to corporate ownership by design to BE normalized.

Because right now, it’s a niche interest that 98% of people have never heard of. Corporations want to keep it that way…if they’ve even heard of the Fediverse. They might to be too busy exploiting labor, and polluting the planet with their private jets and resource sucking plants located in places that already have water shortages.

Yes I’m talking to you Nestle, and you Starbucks CEO. I don’t know how this comment turned into a rant against them specifically, but fuck Nestle, and fuck Starbucks.

Because SOME people just won’t SHUUUUUT UUUUUUUUUUP already.

I wish real life had word limits on people talking. I remember like 10 years ago, working in an office setting with one woman who told me everyday what she saw on some kardashian show. I honestly don’t know if she told me the same things everyday, or if this was a daily show with constant new content. All I know is that OTHER people told me that this woman has kids, but she never talked one word about her kids. She only ever talked about the kardashians.

And I never listened to a thing she said. But I damn sure wish she had a mute button, or a word limit.

Oh, I figure you make your own community. The Mastodon account grows your blogs awareness. The Lemmy community serves as a place to discuss your blog while also being host to the majority of the conversation. And the blog is the host of the content.

Wait, what’s wrong with midwest.social?

…how you gonna call her male when she lists just about every pronoun in existence in her username EXCEPT for he/him?

Could you make a community, and a bot? The bot would look for any post on your blog, then the bot creates a post in that community that uses the blog post title as the lemmy title, and uses the blog body as the post body.

Then the bot tells your blog the url of the lemmy post to use the lemmy comments.

Then, I see the button that says “load lemmy comments”. Maybe your bot also creates a mastodon using the title of the blog post as a link to the blog post. Then any mastodon replies to that mastodon post could be under a different button that just says “Load Mastodon replies”.

So at the end of your blog you have “Load Lemmy comments” (just as we see here) but next to it is “Load Mastodon replies”.

And all of this, is done by you just posting once to the blog, while the bots do everything else in an instant.

You just post once on the blog, and automatically a Lemmy post is created which is a duplicate of the blog post, the lemmy comments are loaded via a button on the blog automatically, a Mastodon post is created which is just a link to the blog using that posts title as the clickable link, AND a button on the blog is created to see Mastodon replies to the mastodon post.

Everything besides the innitial blog post is automatic.

Is that possible?

Wait, so theoretically, you could create a blog, and create a Lemmy instance/community, post a blog entry, have it auto post the blog entry to your instance, and now the Lemmy comments for the Lemmy post are the comments on the blog post? Do I have that right?

And in theory THIS comment should show up on your blog, yes?

Edit: Hey, I see it!

This should just be on, at all times, for all instances/communities.

Well I’m not going to look when I’m soft!

Eh…needs more boobies and niche content. 1 post per month on some communities isn’t enough.

Why is it every new thing that joins the fediverse, I have no use for?

It sounds cool…but I have no use for a 3D printer.

Why couldn’t a new service that’s all about sharing boobies join the fediverse? That would attract some users.

Someone should make a meme out of this!

Ah yes. Taking “ignorance is bliss” to a whole new meaning.

"I was happy being dumb! Now I’m a little smarter. I’m smart enough to know how dumb I am! I don’t like it!!!

What if I just use the webpage?

It’s how it SHOULD work.

Like if I comment on someones picture on pixelfed, and someone replies to my comment, the notification should go to my inbox.

Then, if I post a video on peertube, and 5 people leave comments, those comments should go in my inbox.

And if 30 people leave replies to my Lemmy comments, I should have 30 comments in my inbox.

And that inbox? It should be one inbox. One account. If I see the notification for pixelfed, and I click the context button, my browser should take me to that pixelfed post. Then, if I click back, to the inbox again, and click context for the peertube comments, it should take me to that video.

That’s what I imagined when I first heard of the fediverse.

Well…that kind of defeats the purpose then.

It needs to be compatible with ALL the things. Lemmy, Mastodon, Pixelfed, Peertube, hell throw Bluesky in there! Get all the fediverse things interconnected. Otherwise, what is the point of having a service that connects all the things, and then making it compatible with none?

I’m unclear what that means.

Holy shit…I haven’t tried it yet, but this sounds like one of the first ideas I pitched when I got here. One account, multiple platforms!

How do I do this? Can I do it with this account?

I I wasn’t talking in a place where the developers gather. I was talking here. With other users, whom I assumed would have the health of the fediverse in mind.

The idea wasn’t me stating a final idea of “do this now!”. It was more of a starting point of a think tank. I was expecting to start the batton running, and pass it off to the next idea, or the continuation of the idea.

Instead, nobody joined in. Nobody took the batton. They swatted the batton down, and collectively said “No batton! No change!”