I have never been an "online community first" person. The internet is how I stay in touch with people I met in real life. I'm not a "tweet comments at celebrities" guy. I was never funny enough to be the funniest person on Twitter. So when Twitter was accidentally purchased

It became the only reliable source of information I had. People posted links with a minimal amount of commentary, picking and choosing the best content from other social media networks. They’re not doing it to “build a brand” because that’s not a thing in the Fediverse. It’s too disjointed to be a place to build a newsletter subscription base.

  • notfromhere@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1838·
    2 days ago

    I really do not understand all the .ml hate. If you have it so much why are you using their technology (Lemmy)? So much bullshit being reposted as fact. Basically echo chamber brigading. I left Reddit to escape this shit…

    Edit: although judging by your post history you lack conviction and joke about everything, so maybe I missed the mark

    • Telodzrum@lemmy.worldEnglish
      233·
      2 days ago

      Of you hate it so much, why are you using their technology?

      Oh boy, this isn’t a question you want being asked of people (yourself included).

    • MisterFrog@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      1 day ago

      From one socialist (me) to another (you, presumably), the lemmy.ml hate comes from:

      • Conservatives who dislike socialism
      • Liberals who dislike socialism
      • Socialists who think Stalin and Mao were anti-democratic fuckheads, and don’t enjoy being around “socialists” who like them.

      I like Lemmy, but can at the same time dislike people who like things I consider to be authoritarian, even if those people created the platform in the first place.

      Viewing lemmy.ml content on ‘All-Top’ is a rather happy medium for me, still get to see some of the best memes

      • notfromhere@lemmy.mlEnglish
        2·
        1 day ago

        I’m definitely not a socialist. .ml is where I landed when I joined due to not knowing any better and joining the largest (at the time) instance, and honestly the outside hate is keeping me there.

              • notfromhere@lemmy.mlEnglish
                511·
                2 days ago

                Lemmy isn’t compatible with Reddit. Piefed is literally implementing Lemmy’s data structures to specifically be compatible with Lemmy.

                So since your stated goal is counter to reality, I have to wonder what your real intent is. I only see this drama as weakening Lemmy and Piefed by extension, not strengthening anything.

                • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                  4·
                  2 days ago

                  piefed is not a derivative. It’s not a fork. It’s a completely different project, in a very different programming language even.

                  neither does it implement specifically lemmy’s data structures. its not compatible with lemmy specifically. piefed implements activitypub, and is compatible with activitypub servers. activitypub is not lemmy.

                  • notfromhere@lemmy.mlEnglish
                    2·
                    2 days ago

                    PieFed is absolutely a “derivative” in terms of its DNA. It’s basically built as a love letter to Lemmy’s specific flavor of ActivityPub.

                    If you look at the raw JSON, PieFed isn’t just “using ActivityPub”, it’s specifically implementing the “Lemmy-isms” that make the Threadiverse work. It uses the same Group actor logic, the same Dislike activity extensions for downvoting, and even mirrors Lemmy’s API routes so you can use apps like Jerboa.

                    In a way, it’s like how a 3rd-party controller is a “derivative” of a PlayStation controller. The internals are completely different, but it’s shaped exactly that way so it can plug into the same console and work perfectly. PieFed chose to speak “Lemmy-ish” instead of just “ActivityPub-ish” to ensure it wasn’t an island.