i had this exact issue until i wiped my machine this summer and it refreshed into a full win11 after the crowdstrike debacle

i hate ms with every fiber of my being, but teams has gotten better. it used to be practically unusable. now its just mostly so

its a space soap opera. maybe youre not familiar with soaps, but they tend to maintain characters… branching out isnt exactly common.

i want more rey

yeah that entire series was kind of mind fuck. i loved it

oh im sure. the grass is always greener and all that…

how many very dark/horror stories are there were eternity is the true evil? many.

brazil jumped from twitter, that was a huge part of it. the election caused another wave.

bluesky is just twitter with faux-federation. it will end up with the same issues eventually when its board decides to recoup.

yes, its a chicken and egg problem and a huge hurdle for literally anyone trying to create new platforms.

its about feature parity (even if they dont really exist, re:account portability), marketing among other things. bluesky is run buy a bunch of big names who were able to draw an initial load of users which got their ball rolling.

its about blueskys volume reaching a ‘critical mass’ which will continue to then draw users.

huge groups (recently, brazil) moved there en-masse because it already had a ton of users.

its the same reason twiiter even still has users… they dont want to leave that volume of subscribers.

they wanted at least some feature parity with twitter in order to draw users expecting that environment.

i used to call the micrblog stuff the ‘twitterverse’… and i kind of still want to. I may edit my mbin instance to use that term, and i also hate ‘magazine’ in favor of ‘Subs’ or ‘Community’

to me all of these server products are federating media servers with varying access to those 2 pieces. the underlying software should be nearly irrelevant except for them.

the ‘community/magazine’ is the source of the data and ‘remote’ servers cache that data. when i post to tenforward im posting to the source@itshomeinstance and my server receives a copy… a locally cached version.

my server still has a ton of kbin.social content for example despite that server being doa.

i refer to my instance, at the moment, as primarily an ‘onramp’ server. my users utilize it to access remote content almost exclusively as you point out piefed does. But, my server also caches a huge amount of fediverse data… both from all the lemmys and major microblog platforms mastodon, threads, and universodeon among others.

the specific platform lemmy.world utilizes should have no impact on me or my users if they do things correctly.

then its even more likely as skin cells are sloughed off 24/7 and where do they go? everywhere.

the threadiverse is a subset of the fediverse (microblog + threaded forums)

forumverse isnt a bad suggestion… doesnt seem to roll off the tongue though. im going to use threadiverse as its the value i want to see and i dont give 2 shits about meta.

talk to the admin

https://kbin.melroy.org/contact

gotta maintain that backwards compatible enshitification

sounds like a lot of conjecture to me. i think there is hope in groups owning, operating and funding their own instances. software platforms will get better over time. funding pathways will get better over time.

i dont think we should just toss our hands up and say ‘nope, too hard. only jerks need apply’

agreed that we need to work on scaling out horizontally. i think that ironically poor moderation will help with this over time. it took reddit 20 years to get where it is.

i agree. bending over for people butthurt about meta seems like a great way to limit your market artificially.

then again, i named my public instance moist

Lemmy has in may places worse moderation than reddit.

yet this is exactly what the fediverse was designed to work around. giving the power back to the users. when .ml decides to block a bunch of shit due to butt-hurt mods, communities can be moved elsewhere without everyone having to make new accounts.

that is a personal problem, not a general protocol based one.

yep. as an mbin cheerleader, i evaluated both and kbin was better looking and perfectly functional from the start. no app required. no custom user-land css.

but what really bothers me is the conflation of lemmy and fediverse. theyre used almost interchangeably. other platforms get lost in the discussion.