Freedom of speech is not freedom to coopt someone else's platform. It's freedom from government persecution. If what you put out unto the world is so controversial that no one wants to host it, you can host it yourself.
Like, you don't get to walk into someone else's home, shit on the rug, and then insist you can't be removed from the premises. But you can shit on your own rug all day long, man.
I know it's possible to follow communities on lemmy from a mastodon account, but I was wondering if it's possible to do the reverse, and subscribe to a mastodon user? I wanted to try and get a combined feed from both platforms - I prefer lemmy, and given it works one way I was hoping it might work the other?
It's relatively young, so I don't think so. Though it started as a Lemmy fork, so maybe whatever works with Lemmy works with it? But then, thise probably wouldn't support the additional functionality.
I've been racing as Wario ever since MK64. I love being a powerhouse on the racetrack! In the original SNES Mario Kart, since I don't have Wario, Bowser is my backup. It's good to be big...
The scale of things when dealing with astronomical objects really highlights these conceptual things, but this is true in everything we experience.
The baseball crossing over the homerun fence was hit seconds before it got there.
The arrow that pierced the target was launched well before it got there.
We just don't consider those events as happening until we witness the objects pass whatever threshold we consider significant.
With light, though, we're used to the time between the initiating event and the threshold being reached being functionally nil, so we don't distinguish the difference.
I'm left to wonder if having both upvotes and boosts might be seen as novel and interesting to the Reddit crowd. Something that makes the fedi groupoverse feel like Reddit++.
Reddit is well structured to spur and better support larger scale migration, though, since subreddits are operated somewhat similarly to how Fediverse instances are run. They're structured such that they have hegemons and formal "leadership". If the mod teams of a reasonable number of medium sized active subreddits just decided to spin up their own lemmy or kbin instances, it would make fedi aggregators a real destination for Reddit folks overnight.
This is different from Twitter, where communities were informal structures, and no one had any kind of editorial control. It's way more structured.
The key is to sell mods on it, rather than individual users.
I believe more and more people will escape to lemmy sooner or later, and I already see 3 different communities for the same thing (selfhosted) here on lemmy. Time will tell which one will be the most active, but lets assume all of them will be equally active and the desire emerges to combine the two communities about the same...
Yeah, I don't know anything about the actual ActivityPub protocol, but having communities point to each other seems like a way of not only combining communities, but also letting sub-communities within them merge and fork as they see fit.
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Can I subscribe to mastodon users?
I know it's possible to follow communities on lemmy from a mastodon account, but I was wondering if it's possible to do the reverse, and subscribe to a mastodon user? I wanted to try and get a combined feed from both platforms - I prefer lemmy, and given it works one way I was hoping it might work the other?
Who is your go-to character in Mario Kart? (beehaw.org)
I've been racing as Wario ever since MK64. I love being a powerhouse on the racetrack! In the original SNES Mario Kart, since I don't have Wario, Bowser is my backup. It's good to be big...
Betelgeuse is Almost 50% Brighter Than Normal. What's Going On? (www.universetoday.com)
Boosting and upvoting are conceptually different
Update: this has now been resolved by changes to Kbin's voting system:...
Reddit is Dead, long live.. leddi- lemmy?
It really whips the llama's ass. Post says it all. Foreveralone. Take my upvote. Are we in post-social media yet or what?
PSA: Lemmy keeps your deleted content by design
From Lemmy documentation:...
Is Bluesky Billionaire-Proof? (The Intercept) (theintercept.com)
Is it possible to merge two existing communities on different federated servers?
I believe more and more people will escape to lemmy sooner or later, and I already see 3 different communities for the same thing (selfhosted) here on lemmy. Time will tell which one will be the most active, but lets assume all of them will be equally active and the desire emerges to combine the two communities about the same...