Still, as Reddit is strong-arming its way across, maybe worth signaling to people there that the fediverse may be used without an account, so long as there's even one instance that implements logged-out view as the protocol allows it?

I don't have access to my account any longer, possibly VPN ban, though I never tried to recover it so I can only guess why mine is lost, else I'd post myself.

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[–] Shonzi@lemmy.world 5 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

I actually just got the "You used old.reddit.com you need to log in to view" and decided to see if any more people had adopted Lemmy. It's more active than it was last time I was here, but probably still not active enough to move most casuals.

I'll probably come back for the next couple days and re-build my communities, and see if it can keep my attention, but I'm not holding my breathe.

It's unfortunate that Mastodon has also struggled, I'm glad Bluesky exists as an alternative but it would be nice to see federation more widely adopted by the masses. Maybe in time, with constant growth.

I saw the r/FauxMoi post today about the subreddit being marked sensitive information and de-prioritized by the algorithm and it's clear enshittification is in full swing, so it's just a matter of time before Reddit is mostly abandoned.

[–] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 3 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

Mastodon has a decent usercount, but I really wish they would at least put a minimal effort into working with the Threadiverse better. It would be a huge improvement if they just made it so following a group/community didn't put all of the comments on your main feed. Also rendering the contents of Threadiverse posts instead of just giving you the title and link to it.

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/17008

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/139

Mastodon seems to really not care about any other platforms aside from themselves.

Maybe some other microblogging platform will take over some day, like Catodon.

[–] takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

What Threads is doing is an old strategy of embrace, extend, extinguish.

Google did the same thing with XMPP. When it joined it was welcomed then they introduced incompatible features to encourage existing users to switch to their GTalk. Eventually they "accidentally" broke communication so anyone on XMPP couldn't talk with users on GTalk and effectively killed XMPP.

[–] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 4 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm confused, I didn't mention Threads. I think we actually did a good job of keeping Threads out and they already kinda gave up on ActivityPub

Threadiverse = Lemmy+Mbin+PieFed, it's a term older than Meta's Threads

[–] takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 weeks ago

Yeah, as you suspected, I wasn't familiar with that term and wrongly assumed it was about Threads. My bad.

Thanks for the clarification.

[–] Azal@pawb.social 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

This is kind of my problem here. There's a lot of hobby based communities in Reddit that hasn't made the move and pretty dead over here so it's what keeps dragging me back.

But gah, the new style is completely unreadable to me.

[–] takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 4 weeks ago

Unfortunately the only way to change that requires work. If community is dead it won't become active unless someone will post there and we might need to be the ones to do it.

If you have some community that you would like, start posting there (if you don't know content you can copy from Reddit) as long as there is content and people interested in it, it will grow, but someone has to do the dirty work unfortunately.