blazarious 1y ago • 88%
Hm ja.. veganes Huhn gibt‘s nicht. Ich nenne das Zeug mittlerweile einfach Erbsen-Fleisch, Weizen-Fleisch, Soja-Fleisch, oder was auch immer die Basis ist. Ist irgendwie akkurater.
Vegane Wurst gibt’s aber! Ist ja nur die Form, nicht das Fleisch.
blazarious 1y ago • 100%
There was a time when the typical redditor was a geek and weirdo 😅
blazarious 1y ago • 100%
I see. But won’t it be more like Microblogging and not have any communities like Lemmy? I guess we’ll have to see…
blazarious 1y ago • 100%
That's a fair point.
blazarious 1y ago • 100%
Entirely possible, yes.
blazarious 1y ago • 100%
Okay, if it'll never enable federation then all our discussions are obsolete!
blazarious 1y ago • 100%
And how will this extinguish the fediverse? We'll still all be here, won't we?
blazarious 1y ago • 88%
More people isn't always good. But imagine some organizations and journalists that for whatever reason still are on Twitter can now be persuaded to sign up to Threads. Well, now they're in the fediverse.
And if the content from Threads is overwhelmingly bad we can always defederate and the fediverse still isn't destroyed.
So, how do I picture the extinguish part?
…or how do you all picture the endgame of Meta's EEE campaign? All I see right now is a 10x increase of people in the fediverse and while this may be challenging, isn't it ultimately a good thing?
blazarious 1y ago • 100%
Yes, people are panicking because Meta is coming for us. They’re taking two opportunities with one strike:
- fill the void that Twitter is starting to create
- profit from the buzz around the fediverse
At the end of the day, more people in the fediverse is a win in my book. And if it becomes a problem there’s always defederation as a last resort.
blazarious 1y ago • 100%
Will people come?
blazarious 1y ago • 100%
yeah, that's kind of an issue. Many communities exist more than once on multiple instances. Then again, this can also be a benefit. Maybe one of them isn't to your liking -> choose another one. Or one of them goes down -> there's a backup.
blazarious 1y ago • 100%
I mean, are companies really paying attention to user needs? Lol
Look, the user needs to see stuff that keeps them engaged. That keeps them coming back for more. Algos are designed to achieve exactly that. Your self chosen bubble of followings and interests may not be optimized for engagement and addiction.
No, the companies don't pay attention to user needs, they pay attention to the bottom line.
blazarious 1y ago • 100%
sometimes I miss giving awards like on Reddit...
blazarious 1y ago • 100%
well, that's going to change as soon as Threads will be available for federation. Then you can use Mastodon and be in direct contact with all the folks from the Meta-verse.
blazarious 1y ago • 100%
How is this legally binding? I still remember when people posted similar stuff all over Facebook. It means nothing.
blazarious 1y ago • 100%
Yes, those are good points!
blazarious 1y ago • 100%
I like this answer. Thanks!
blazarious 1y ago • 97%
How do you feel about people joking about and using 404 far off from HTTP?
Also: yay, AMAs have finally arrived. Who’s gonna verify your identity, though?
Because I just realized the app I’m using doesn’t let me set the language.
I've been setting up my own instance and I ran into issues with pictrs. I have it running with an S3 backend, so no filesystem involved there, but I just learned it uses sled as an internal key-value store. I suppose we need to persist that sled data somehow? How do you all handle this? Any isights appreciated.