OpenStars

Dang it, now that you gave them the idea, they seem to have already done it, retroactively. I hope you are happy /s (😭).

instinct

Well, there’s nothing we can do.

How about paying a living wage for human writers who actually give a damn about the integrity of the end product?

Like I said, there is nothing whatsoever that we could possibly do about this…

Might be a Rihanna fan.

Wcgw?

I think there’s a way to make that happen. Sorry I don’t use apps, I just played around with it in the past, but I recall not liking it until someone told me how to make the images larger - buried VERY deep in the customizations somewhere - and then afterwards it became my favorite app (except I don’t actually use apps, but IF I did, it would be Voyager. Or Thunder. And with full sized images that don’t cut parts out.)

Not me 😋🙃😜🥴

I also left Reddit not for the tankies but for kbin.social, so PieFed is a spiritual successor for that:-).

Plus also the root cause, whatever that is. See e.g. Brexit as well.

Democracy requires an educated citizenry. Knowing that, yet choosing to ignore that, made Western nations vulnerable, not only to misinformation spread for reasons like profit and cheap fame, but to active disinformation as well.

But it was our fault for choosing to remain vulnerable. We knew better, but thought that the consequences would never come, so did not change. Oopsie.

In terms of number of users, rate of growth (in number of users, communities, instances, etc.), level of app support, appreciation from the Threadiverse community, and by all other metrics, yeah? Especially the sheer pace of development of PieFed, which is just a pleasure to observe such a labor of love.

Threaded conversations in Mbin appear more like an afterthought to the Twitter/X microblogging style - see e.g. its own level of app support. Also, the peak of Mbin (according to this site was 874 monthly active users in April 2024, but just one month later that had dropped to 563 and today is 719.

Though Mbin is still remembered - now as the Threadiverse = Lemmy + PieFed + Mbin (+ nodeBB + flarum, with Sublinks seemingly abandoned). There is room for us all here! :-) I will add that if Mbin ever wanted to actually get serious, it would be nice to see.

Well aren’t you lucky, now you get to see it again, live!:-)

I mean yeah - but I do so less for their sake and more for the reason that we should have been responsible and not actively have caused that, you know? imho at least.

There have been mass extinction events many times on earth before, and there probably will be several more times yet again, until the sun dies out or perhaps the planet does prior to that. Perhaps humans will even be around to see the next one(s) too, if we happen to survive this one. That will not negate our responsibility here, but could be true regardless.

We can only control what is within our capability to control. i.e. we need to do the right thing - e.g. reduce our impact - but the actual result of our actions is beyond our control hence I choose not to “worry” about that part of the situation.

Stoicism.

The planet will survive. And there is even a chance that some remnant of humanity might as well - deservedly or no. It is mainly modern society that is done for, and I do not morn its loss.

You have value. Thank you for existing.

So… another year then?

I tried and tried and tried and tried and tried and tried and tried and tried with Lemmy. The best I found that I could hope for was sorting by New, but mostly I just gave up hope for it.

Until I moved to PieFed, and now the issue has multiple solutions. For one, using the Topic/Feeds (which are user-customizeable and shareable) you really can have your cake and eat it too, e.g. you can unsubscribe from all politics communities so that those do not show up on your main homepage, but an entire new feed completely dedicated to News & Politics is just a click away. Or Memes. Or Hobbies. Or Movies & TV, or any of a thousand other things - again, you can build your own, or subscribe to one that someone else has made.

And for another, for sufficiently low-traffic communities you can click the bell icon (which you can do to pretty much anything - users, posts, comments, communities, etc. - plus you can even UNCLICK that to silence notifications from your own content!!), so that you get a notification for each and every single new post to it. But, if it ever does get to be too much, you can mark all as read and/or separate the different categories of notifications from one another - community posts by others vs. replies to your own content.

PieFed really is leaving Lemmy behind in the dust, as far as features are concerned.

Yeah “obscure” was definitely the wrong word there - maybe “niche”?

Thank you so much for your contributions btw! In this era of disinformation, making the Threadiverse more usable can be an enormous boon:-).

He did, as well as mental health. So perhaps it is good that he pulled back a bit rather than overwhelm himself further. He did come back from his hospital trip, but then left the instance completely unmonitored which caused the entire Threadiverse to become flooded with spam messages like advertisements, to the point where some instances chose to defederate from it. You can’t just leave something like open on the internet these days!

Anyway PieFed is fantastic, you will probably fall in love with it instantly, like so many others of us:-).