Doesn’t Slashdot kind of work like that?

Something poetic about Facebook dropping xmpp and now coming back to mastodon

I can totally see the big 5 trying to the same things with activitypub

I forgot it even existed. Is it a game yet or still just a series of presentations and announcements?

I think creating too many accounts as you try to find a home and figure out what instances are is a normal thing. I certainly did it as well 😂

You can think of each instance as a separate reddit website. The magic of the fediverse is all these separate full on websites are still the same thing and can interact with each other!

You can! With a few caveats.

[asklemmy](/c/asklemmy@asklemmy.ml) becomes asklemmy

However it won’t work if your instance doesn’t know the community exists. In those cases it needs to be searched for in the usual cumbersome way, but after that the relative links should work.

It felt a bit off at first to not have the top comments all be the ones with the most votes, but I like how it works on lemmy after spending time here.

You can join an old thread and not feel like it’s pointless to add to the discussion!

On the main page you can toggle the Subscribed | Local | All thing to get different feeds. You can set the default in your settings.

I think many people were looking for a reason to leave but kind of felt stuck seeing all the alternatives being either dead or abrasive.

Lemmy seems to have captured the soul of what a significant portion of people have already been looking for.

It’s not exactly obvious how to make them, so here’s a more clickable link for all instances: amateur_radio