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Felt this belonged here.

Found this post super informative as it relates to Mastodon, and thought Lemmy might also benefit from this perspective. I’m not sure I share his optimism, but his points seem sound to dampen some of the alarm bells over Meta joining the Fediverse.

TL;DR: We should bring blogs (self-publishing) back instead of putting all our knowledge into other people's websites....

On the Lemmy specific front, Active daily users seems to still be stabilising following the exodus from elsewhere, Comments and Posts both seem to be on the rise though – promising stats all in all.

It has been an interesting week in the fediverse, with some events that will play out over longer timeframes. Conversations about defederation, but also a growth in tech projects that go beyond microblogging, and the continuation of developer organisation. Besides that, it took around a month for Mastodon to add another million...

Calckey, a fork of Misskey, has been in development for almost a year but now it's ready for general use! it features groups, quote posts, a custom Markdown implementation, chat, emoji reactions, and a whole bunch of quality-of-life features!

cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/12971023...

cross-posted from: feddit.ch/post/1019586...

In many ways, Mastodon feels like rewinding the clock on social media back to the early days of Twitter and Facebook. On the consume side, that means that your home feed has no algorithm (this can be disorienting at first)....

The decentralized Instagram alternative is a great option if you want to back up your feed, focus on photo-sharing, or cut loose from Meta's empire entirely. And making the leap is surprisingly easy.

Two important notes: (1) This guide is focused on legal risks that flow from hosting other people’s content, under U.S. law. In general, the safe harbors and immunities discussed below will not protect you if you are directly infringing copyright or defaming someone. (2) Many of us at EFF are lawyers, but we are not YOUR...

Goodreads is perhaps the best example of enshittification imo. It’s only good now as a way to track your reading lists....

Hi all,...

lemmy.world and lemmy.blahaj.zone are down from what seems like a JavaScript injection attack

I've checked the fedipact signatories, but they all seem to be lemmy instances.

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There is a thread on Mastodon talking about Reddit users rapidly embracing Mastodon to share links, videos, news since Twitter has implemented a login wall to view content. Now we need to encourage them to come to lemmy/kbin!...

TLDR: Poor discoverability impedes the threadiverse's growth by making life hard for new users. Here are some suggestions on how discoverability could be improved....

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/687883...

Are Lemmy and Kbin ready?...

Defederation has come up in multiple different contexts recently in the Fediverse. Even more so, the way other protocols are developing is setting up more significant questions about future choices regarding federation as well.