I don’t know what will actually end up working, but I hope we try something new soon.

Personally I don’t think there is a one-size-fits-all solution. Each problem needs a different approach. We need to figure out how to have all these systems work in tandem.

This is going to be a total noob (and thus stupid) question, but is it possible to selfhost a vpn?

I take the occasional peek to see if it imploded yet. I do miss certain communities. Only last week I was looking for some info on a historical subject. Google turned up nothing so I wanted to r/askHistorians. I hate they decided to stay on reddit and don’t switch to lemmy.

I do not feel thirsty nor do I feel when to stop eating. I also have trouble pinpointing where I feel pain. I feel it but can only tell you the general area. I have problems with balance and not sure if this falls under interoception but I see 3 images. My left eye, right eye and the composite. Edp when tired.

Is he scraping the barrel or just short of loose change?

I get that, but it is irrational. They can plan such a thing, esp. when they do it in concord consort. Just prepopulate the new lemmy communities with some content, ask some regulars/power-posters to become active first. Then setup a site that simplifies the signing-up tot lemmy/kbin and make a big announcement before you abandon reddit. Sure, at first the amount of people will decline. But as Reddit will have problems assigning new mods to all those big subreddits the quality over there will go down further. It won’t be an easy or even fast switch, but sometimes it’s best to just start over.

I just don’t understand why mods form big, popular subreddits don’t switch over to lemmy/kbin/whatever? If it is sunk cost fallacy that is irrational. They have a big following, all they have to do is say “hey guys, we are moving to another site. Go <here> to sign up.” If it is because (as some people suggest, not me) they are power-hungry mods and fear losing that power, it is also irrelevant since they can host their own instance and have all the power they want. If they could organize a blackout, surely they can organize an exodus? What am I missing?

I was looking at matrix today and like what I read. I also saw there is a bridge for other platforms like e.g. whatsapp. But I failed to understand how that works. Can I send and receive messages to whatsapp users with element or is this not possible (yet)?

At some point in the future, everyone who is currently alive, will be dead and the earth will be populated with people who do not exist yet.

Since I was born when my parent were in their late 30’s. And my father was as well, so my paternal grandfather was born in the 1890’s. When I was a kid he told me stories of his childhood. I was only 9 when he died, and at the time his stories were just that; stories. Now (I’m in my 50’s) I wish I had asked him things about those times. He was born and grew up in a world (mostly) without electricity, and without cars, phones, etc.

He was someone from a totally different world, and I knew him.

Added later: He was born “only” 129 years ago, everyone alive then, is now dead.

Hmm. So how about: “Tired of ads? Reddit wants to show them to you. Come to Lemmy, we are friendly and you are welcome!” I am willing to commit 100 euro if anyone can make that happen.

I’m in. Anyone got a catchy idea?

which users should keep in mind

That is my point. Users should not be burdened by such things. Sure, a site has a code of conduct, but if I need to keep track of multiple codes of conducts on “one site” it becomes a burden. Again, just my thoughts, I hope it will work out. Rooting for lemmy and the downfall of Reddit at this point (for no other reason that I am an unreasonably moral bitch).

Here’s hoping. (yeah, I’m an unreasonable, hateful bitch. I despise what they did with the Apollo dev (and others) and I hope it bites them in the arse.)

As a programmer myself I get what you’re saying. But for the average user -I suspect- it is just extra, unimportant, information which could be confusing. (It adds no value nor importance)

The problem with analogies is that they will break down at some point. Not to be pedantic or semantic, but social media is not the same thing as an email. It’s not about understanding email but about signing up to a website and finding things of interest without having to think about how it works. Sadly, most people just want things “to work” without having to go through a learning curve, no matter how small. But I could be wrong.

You are not wrong. But that is not user-centric. I think this fediverse has potential, but it needs to find a way to make it more human-centric rather than technical-centric. If it fails, it will probably be because it fails to be intuitive. (just my gut feeling)

Quality content is one thing. Engagement is another. I see lots of new posts that are good, but little to no comments. What we need is a few good communities with lots of engagement. On reddit I was more of a lurker, here I will start to do my best to comment more in the hopes it helps. (Still, my comments will probably be stupid and uninteresting, so it might do more harm than good, lol)

I agree completely with what you say. But I also recognise that a lot of people get confused by all this “techno-babble”. To be honest, I am (admittedly an old) programmer, and I was hesitant and confused at first. I think the average user shouldn’t be concerned with instances. Why do I need to see <user>@<instance> and <community>@<instance>. Just drop the “@instance” (put it in a tooltip at least) and just make community-names unique across all instances (you could still have the same communityname in different instances, but give them a fediverse-alias which is unique)