4 years wow, so you must really remember the more quiet times. Even just in the last 1 to 2 years it’s got so much busier.

That looks incredible. I need to use limes more.

Bold vision, especially like the point

… tethering user accounts to Fediverse instances is an antipattern.

Although I’m sceptical of a net new solution, when we might instead take our suggestions to an existing one. I’m not a fedi/AP nerd myself, so I don’t even know if this makes sense, but could we not just build this functionality into WordPress as a suite of plugins?

I also don’t have much xp with wp, lol.

A forever world sounds nice. I never thought of it in that way. I should go check out my main world again. It’s always fun just like exploring my own ruins.

I even use RSS to get notified in niche lemmy communities I’m trying to nurture.

My RSS feeds outnumber my newsletters like 40 to 1. It’s an incredibly lively and convenient way to syndicate updates of any kind.

Confirmed. I see “Poisson distribution” I start skimming lol

Honestly, still worth it lol

That’s about how it went for me. This is pretty much my home instance, but I also keep an account on a more local lemmy for chatting with the townies.

Also experimenting with my own instance. Still workin out the kinks.

There’s a donator page? I wonder if I’m on there…

EDIT: Oic, just scroll down here.

Nice of the .world admins to donate a hundred/mo. Didn’t know that.

What a trend setter!

End of an era 🥲

Although usually the tide rolls back down for a while with one of these Septembers, as some newbies just don’t click with their instance for whatever reasons. Still, it seems inevitable that it will tip over that threshold, and stay there, one day.

I remember duplicate communities seemed like it would be a problem, until you experience it and realise it’s actually a feature of the fediverse.

I was just so used to the centralised mentality. I honestly have a hard time putting myself back in that headspace…

That’s people just sharing their opinion freely. Word of mouth chatter is definitely not the same as advertising or even influencing, though of course they try to be.

It’s not just ad-free, it’s actively anti-corporate, anti-advertising, even anti-monetization. I would go so far as to say even anti-content in some ways. That’s a cultural disconnect that goes beyond tooling.

Rofl, Romeo and Juliet is like the definition of a tragedy.

God yeah, I’ll be like half way through an article before realising it’s just padding out some very surface level details about what I’m looking up. Like the top 3 interesting things about the topic, but never an actual novel, like, human take.

I get what you’re saying. This stuff hinges on essentially finding small businesses to run, for example, a commercial PeerTube instance. And then leave it up to the rest of the fediverse if they want to federate with them.

I don’t think any of us, or the current devs, would be the ones to add this commercial functionality just because we’re not the sort to chase those types of incentives. But who knows, maybe some business will develop a plugin or peertube wrapper, or hell just a whole new thing, and see if anyone federates. 🤷

The journalist does the leg work to produce novel news.

Just to add that in addition to novelty, journalists provide valuable services, like

• holding up a mirror to the present culture
• documenting and disseminating happenings
• packaging up events into narratives

Not to say that you weren’t including these in “novel news,” but just to make it explicit.

Agreed. The only thing I actually miss is geographically local contacts. But as far as just culture and discourse goes - I’m good.