Every minute you use lemmy, spez’s penis becomes 1 millimeter smaller
Am I the only one who has Firefish crash for them?
The Firefish instance I was on moved to Sharkey instead. As far as I know Firefish is no longer being developed.
Firefish is gone, but Catodon has taken Its place.
For Lemmy.world a donation would help keep it alive without all the crap. Servers are cheaper then they were, but still not cheap.
OMG! Thank you so much ❤️❤️❤️
It’s not easy keeping things up sometimes, but we’re always looking for ways to deliver more for less, while still keeping things snappy.
It’s hard, but without the community, we would just be some nerds with too much time on our hands 😅
Much love for y’all!!!
Yeah but on the other hand Lemmy world sucks and it would be good for the overall health of the Fediverse if they ran out of money and had to shut down. Give that donation to a smaller instance who actually needs it. World is already the biggest and they don’t need to get bigger.
I don’t think we should be wishing for the demise of the largest Lemmy instance. However, I definitely agree that focusing resources towards growing small and medium sized instances is good for the fediverse.
That means everything I am doing is becoming trendy, which makes no sense.
And yet it skews (awkwardly?) further from Reddit. Nobody understands that all the important movements of history reached across political lines and focused on a mission. Still missing a both sides vibe from here where everything is equally discussed to succeed.
Everyone one of my shitposts is making history
Hey, shitposts are like manure that helps other posts grow.
Just trying to take it easy for all those sinners.
Im just here for the memes
I know that you will
What I like about the fedi is I don’t care if it’s a “success” in the same sense that the closed social media sites have to be. It’s not like this project has quarterly profit targets to hit or else it’ll have to enshittify or else the investors pull out and we’re all screwed because there’s no more app.fediverse.com monolith or whatever.
Nah it’s just us doing our thing and enjoying ourselves. The activity around here already reached a critical mass a while ago, to the point that there’s more content than I could hope to enjoy, so anything from here is vegan gravy.
I lurk!! But, thanks y’all.
Not anymore!
I’m doing my best to look at memes 💪
As would say this wise person (@peachymist@sakurajima.moe): you are not procrastinating, you are fighting for a free and open Internet
Teamwork makes the dream work.
Well, that reminds me that Mastodon has huge, unresolved problems, such as tags being part of the post’s body like Twitter rather than being a separate field like Tumblr.
Reading tweets with a hundred hashtags at the bottom seem really thirsty for attention, which is bad because Mastodon wants to fundamentally work with these, yet doesn’t have good in-post integration for them. It makes interactions less genuine, more performative.
Rome wasn’t built in a day, and Mastodon won’t be good tomorrow either. In the meantime, you can vote to make it better on https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/10743.
Try Catodon instead. It’s a much better UI and federated.
Ehh. What’s the average age around here? I’m guessing it wasn’t the youth that migrated from Reddit.
18 here
I’m 33. Joined up during the APIcalypse and ensuing exodus from Reddit.
Look at the baby over here. I remember 33… Actually not really.
I’m OP and I’m 50 and female.
Old fucker. Your lot taught me an absurd amount of shit on IRC.
I’m 41.
I predate IRC and even web pages. I used telnet talkers!
Fuck it all.
In my mid IRC days I met Suzeran. She was fantastic. Ostensibly a man, but he identified as a young woman. Others in our group were furries or (why the fuck is furry a real word) whatever for the time. Dunno, but our old internet culture was about people, not politics.
So was mine. I mostly hung out in a largely gay men talker, and despite me being neither I made friends I still have today.
Yeah, it’s kinda nuts what we dealt with and/or loved.
My most awkward was a bro named Bronson. He made a joke anti-cuban song. He passed way too early. The Cuban bro that spawned the song was the person who told me about 9/11. “We’re under attack”
I did my best, but we were poor.
I’m in my 20s, is that considered youth?
@Wilzax @Underwaterbob yeah 😁
I am 17 lol
Some sorta survey/census for the fediverse might be cool
We’ve had lots of them. It’s depends on the community but we’re generally older than r/, more female then you think, and slightly to very ‘techie’.
I’m not that young, but sometimes I see people here refer to their childhoods, and then I feel like a baby.
Now I feel old because my childhood was basically over before Reddit was born. Am I already old at 33? Gross!
33 old? Nah. 30s are just the start of actual adulthood (as opposed to young adulthood).
I think it’ll be skewed based on reasons people are here.
Im interested in this as well
I am in my mid 20s the kids call me old and the adults call me a kid.
I’m here to argue! It’s my passtime 😎
I’m here to argue!
No you aren’t! :)
It’s my passtime
Also, it’s spelled “pastime”.
First of all, let me make one thing perfectly clear: the only reason we’re even having this conversation is because of the mindless adherence to so-called “standard” spelling rules. This notion that “pastime” is the only correct spelling is not just pedantic, it’s intellectually lazy. It’s a testament to how rigid and unimaginative people can be when it comes to the evolution of language.
Let’s break this down, shall we? “Passtime” makes perfect sense if you actually think about it. The word is derived from the concept of “passing time.” When you say “passtime,” you’re capturing the very essence of what you’re doing: engaging in an activity to pass the time. It’s straightforward, logical, and intuitive. Meanwhile, “pastime” reeks of historical baggage, a relic from an era when spelling was inconsistent and chaotic. Why should we be bound by outdated conventions that don’t even reflect the way we speak or think today?
Moreover, English is a living, breathing language. It’s constantly evolving, incorporating new words, and adapting to the needs of its speakers. The insistence on “pastime” over “passtime” is a perfect example of how resistant people are to change. It’s this kind of rigid thinking that stifles creativity and hinders progress. If everyone thought like you, we’d still be saying “fridge” as “refrigerator” and “pram” as “parambulator” Oh wait, some people still do—another clear sign of the arbitrary nature of these so-called rules.
And let’s talk about the sheer arrogance of your correction. Do you honestly believe that enforcing archaic spelling rules somehow makes you superior? That by pointing out a minor spelling variation, you’re contributing to the betterment of society? Newsflash: language is meant to communicate ideas and emotions, not to be a tool for condescending gatekeepers to wield as a weapon against those who don’t adhere to their narrow-minded views.
If anything, “passtime” is a much-needed innovation. It reflects a more modern, practical approach to spelling. It’s high time we embrace such changes instead of clinging to antiquated norms. So, before you jump in to correct someone’s spelling next time, maybe take a moment to consider the possibility that the language is evolving—and that it’s okay for it to do so. Your desperate need to enforce obsolete rules only showcases a fear of change and a lack of understanding of the dynamic nature of English.
In conclusion, your correction of “passtime” to “pastime” is not just unnecessary; it’s a glaring display of linguistic conservatism. We don’t need your permission to innovate and improve our language. So kindly take your pedantry elsewhere, and let the rest of us enjoy the richness and flexibility of English without being bogged down by outdated and arbitrary rules.
Not sure why you are downvoted +4/-5. Your reply was perfect.
Someone’s gotta make toxic sludge!
The future is decentralized, not federated. That’s why I’m on nostr, even if it doesn’t deliver yet.
Do you not know how this site works
It is decentralized.
Somebody takes out the lemmy.world server and your identity is gone. So decentralized, lol.
My username is not my identity.
Get a life.
It weirds me out that most of the arguments for nostr I come across are around how “you can’t loose your identity, it’s just a private/public keypair!”. Maybe I just don’t get banned enough to understand the perspective, but to me the real problem is the content/discussions being lost, not usernames for some corner of the web.
I really don’t care about loosing my identity on a social media website; I’ve found it healthier to view social media accounts on the same level as my customer account at my isp and power utility. When I change ISPs, the old account is closed down and I start up a new one at the other ISP. What’s important to me is the service getting delivered, not that it remembers that I’m the same person from however many years ago. It’s still the same me here in my body, interacting with the web. I know what I need from it, it doesn’t always need to remember who I am (and sometimes I’d rather it forgot or never knew in the first place).
My final point is a bit of a troll, but also kinda serious: how decentralized is it when your identity is “centralized” in your key pair? Loose your keys or loose your password to the key, and your identity is similarly effectively gone. Even worse in this case, no-one can restore it for you. Which is why I don’t tie my identity that much to any online service, especially ones I don’t host. The only thing that truly preserves my identity is the flesh-and-blood body that I inhabit (and even that isn’t fail-proof).
I’ve interacted with GPG signing circles before. So many people are losing access to their keys. So many more are considering some of their keys as compromised. In either case they’re regularly generating wholly new keys, essentially rebooting their “identity” from scratch. When they do so, they always rely on flesh-and-blood interactions to have their new identity verified and trusted by others.
Maybe it’s a question of which circles we’re involved in; mine are already regularly hopping accounts, without being forced to by bans or server outages. I’m used to interpreting the tone & content to recognize “people”, and ignoring usernames. On top of that so many people regularly change their display names on social media for vanity and expression purposes that I can’t reliably use them anyways for recognizing accounts.
Maybe I just don’t get banned enough
You may also interact with countless bots without ever knowing, because creating fake identities is free.
I really don’t care about loosing my identity
Fair, some people value their identity.
how decentralized is it when your identity is “centralized” in your key pair?
For average people nothing changes, the app can hold their key for them and even offer email recovery.
On top of that so many people regularly change their display names on social media for vanity and expression purposes that I can’t reliably use them anyways for recognizing accounts.
That’s something having signatures and a web of trust solves.
Besides, you fail to see another problem: Whichever centralized, federated site you use can manipulate anything you read and publish.
Anyway, if you don’t see a need for tools like nostr you don’t need them.
You may also interact with countless bots without ever knowing, because creating fake identities is free.
Maybe. Bots don’t seem currently capable of holding a conversation beyond surface level remarks. I think I tend to engage with thought-provoking stuff.
On the off chance that I reply to a bot, it is as much for my reply to be read by other humans viewing the conversation. So I don’t understand how interacting with countless bots is supposed to be such a big downside.
Plus, I don’t see how public/private key pairs prevents endless “fake” identity creation/proliferation. It’s not like you need a government-issued ID to generate them (which, to be clear, still wouldn’t be great -just got other reasons).
Fair, some people value their identity.
To be clear, I’m talking about online identities. In which case, I would argue that if you value it so much you should not delegate it to some third party network. My IRL identity is incredibly valuable to me, which is why I don’t tie it up with any online communications services, especially ones I have no control over.
For average people nothing changes, the app can hold their key for them and even offer email recovery.
…so then the app can post on my behalf without me knowing? And it’ll be signed as if I had done it myself. I don’t understand preferring this if you’re not also self hosting.
That’s something having signatures and a web of trust solves.
But as I wrote in my previous message regarding gpg signing circles (a web of trust), that doesn’t “solve” things. It just introduces more layers and steps to try and compensate for an inherently impossible ideal. Unless I’m misunderstanding your point here?
Besides, you fail to see another problem: Whichever centralized, federated site you use can manipulate anything you read and publish.
I just take that for granted on the internet. It’s true that key-signing messages should make that effectively impossible for all but the largest third parties (FAANG & nation-states). But you still need to verify keys/identities through some out-of-band mechanism, otherwise aren’t you blindly trusting the decentralized network to be providing you with the “true” keys and post, as made by the human author?
Anyway, if you don’t see a need for tools like nostr you don’t need them.
Maybe I’m not expressing myself properly; I don’t see how nostr (and tools like it) effectively address that/those needs.
Sort of like how there was (arguably still is) a need for cash that governments can’t just annul or reverse transactions of, yet bitcoin and all cryptocurrencies I’m aware of fail on that front by effectively allowing state actors (who have state resources) to participate in the mining network and execute 51% attacks.
Someone takes out tchncs.de and your account and my alt are gone. My main account will still be there. „Decentralized“ by nature but if people flock together in good old manner they will break the system.
Doing my part O7
