I’m happy to see almost 50,000 users. Sometimes it feels like there’s ten of us.
I see a lot more, you need to expand you communities maybe ;)
I still really enjoy Discuit.
It’s nice.
Shout out to Piefed and its 75 monthly active users: https://piefed.fediverse.observer/dailystats
PieFed represent! Highly recommended, the ‘Topics’ feature that aggregates multiple community is super valuable to me
And a whopping… 3 servers?
Seems like a cool project though, along with sublinks. Might try them out once they are a bit more stable.
Piefed is quite stable as of now already, if you are curious
Almost as many as there are in the colonial fleet in Battlestar Galactica. So does that mean we can expect that the colonial fleet had someone as prolific at shitposting as The_Picard_Maneuver? That’s encouraging to know if so
There was, back when I was active there. Around the time I migrated to Lemmy there was some drama and I believe that user was suspended. I don’t check it frequently enough anymore to know if there’s a current Picard maneuver surrogate.
He made an account on another instance and he’s up to the same bullshit that got him banned in the first place, but these admins are friendly to it
Wait, did they do something bad? I thought they were just a prolific poster of memes.
This was a different person. They’d taken a username of someone popular in a number of communities on Reddit and were purporting to be that person.
Wait, I’m still confused. Is The_Picard_Maneuver impersonating a redditor, or was there a different user impersonating a Battlestar Galactica redditor?
Same here
Upon reread, I think they’re referring to a similarly prolific poster, not The_Picard_Maneuver.
Discuit is not a federated social platform, and we do not plan to support federation in the future either. This is because we do not believe that federated platforms, for a few specific reasons, have a chance of becoming mainstream social platforms one day.
Cringe
Guess they never heard about emails
Email is not a platform, though.
IMAP/POP3/SMTP are protocols, ActivityPub is a protocol too.
Are you pointing to something else?
Yeah, they are talking about platforms, not protocols.
Lemmy.world is the platform. Or mastodon.social. Or Gmail. Or Outlook.
I’m really not sure what point you are trying to make.
Would I have said “Guess they never heard about Gmail and Outlook being federated”, would that have been better according to you?
My point is that you can’t compare a platform like reddit to a protocol like email.
While gmail and outlook are insanely big, how much of all email traffic do they handle? Sure, they are insanely big, but I doubt they are above 50%
On the other hand, how big is reddit compared to all other link aggregators? I think it’s pretty surely far above 50%.
Or how big is YouTube as a VOD platform?
I’m not advocating for discuit, but being like “they think federation can’t build a mainstream platform, but look at email” is kind of missing the point.
Also email is the only example for federation. It’s an outlier, mainly because it was one of the first things on the net. Everything else is platforms, unfortunately.