Great point, absolutely! I don't subscribe to the "dead internet theory" but my time on the Fediverse has also convinced me that all of the corporate platform's traffic numbers are almost certainly heavily inflated (probably to justify higher ad prices).
Kirk
joined 4 months ago
We have an entire instance dedicated to popular 1960s television show Star Trek (don't go there)
I am pretty convinced these stats are low because I remember the early years of Reddit feeling much less active than the Threadiverse does now and I have to assume Reddit's MAUs in 2008-9 were at least above 100K.
Regardless, this is nice to see and I recommend everyone check out !fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com if they are interested in helping to promote Lemmy instances on Reddit.
Redditors really hate having their routines challenged. The ones who want to leave will leave, and the group of people who stay behind will become increasingly obstinate (and it's probably for the best).
...Propaganda? Cnet?
Well said. I think AI "art" is really best considered just a form of entertainment since there is no human perspective put into it. Adam Savage said it best (paraphrasing here) "In order for me to be interested in a work of art it needs to be coming from a point of view. I don't see anything resembling a point of view with AI."
Yes was happy to see their edit
I agree totally. I think people benefit of think of their instance as the window through which they view the rest of the Fediverse.
Top highly upvoted comment saying you need different accounts for each instance 🤦🏻
Time to jump into the fray I guess
"Portable identities" is a major feature of Mastodon and ActivityPub platforms in general. It'll be on Lemmy one day too.
major GPT vibes
The take that Fediverse moderation is "not as effective" always makes me smile, because:
The moderator-to-user ratio is several orders of magnitude better on the fediverse because volunteer-run instances have zero incentive to grow beyond their ability to self-moderate. But also-
Do you really expect that paid employees (or even trained AIs) are going to be more effective at recognizing who/what is disrupting a community than existing members with a personal stake in it's quality?
Also, as aside I am very happy they said "Bluesky, if it manages to become truly federated" and not the "promises to be" or "is federated" language we usually see.