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I use Lemmy and like it, but I still have no idea what the fediverse is. Lemmy seems to work fine for me without this knowledge.
Tbh, I don’t think federation is a good selling point. It’s difficult to explain and understand for a general audience
The good thing about Fediverse is the decentralization.
There’s no one Lemmy instance, or Mastodon instance. You could use any server, or even selfhost your own, if you wanted to, and have pretty much the same potential for reach.
That’s all anyone needs to know about the Fediverse.
The hard thing is authenticity. Particularly for public figures, celebrities, social media personalities, businesses, etc. People who want or need an online personality that corresponds to their real one. I really don’t know what the method is for “proving” yourself on the Fediverse.
I really don’t know what the method is for “proving” yourself on the Fediverse.
Isn’t it as simple as posting a photo of oneself holding a sign with your username/instance?
With how good image generators are getting these days…
may I ask what
typstis then?Perhaps the Fediverse needs a helpful paperclip like mascot to help with on-boarding.
“Hi, I’m Freddy Verse your friendly guide to the Fediverse, let me help you pick your new home. Please answer these questions:”
What type of service are you looking for?
- Micro-blogging
- Blogging
- Image sharing
- Long-form video
- Short-form video
- Social network
- Jack-of-all-trades
- Dick pics
Where do you live?
- America, fuck yeah!
- UK
- German speaking countries
- France
- Australia
What are you interested in?
- Books
- Films
- Gaming
- Star Wars
- Star Trek
- Harry Potter
- Porn
- Just the dick pics
My friend is asking what the dick pic instance is.
I think the first rule of dick pic instance is: don’t talk about the dick pic instance.
So long as everyone has to have the Germans in their feed I’m ok with it. Everyone needs to understand what a Stör is.
Just looked it up - a sturgeon?
So around the time that the Reddit migration to Lemmy happened ich_iel had a bunch of sturgeon memes that confused us anglophones
To slightly unconfuse people: those were based around the pun that while Stör means sturgeon, stören means to disturb/annoy.
What would Threads be in this analogy, maybe Edge browser?
Always being shoved in your face, an artificially high “user count”, but after a while people don’t really use it?
Corel word
Internet Explorer.
Predatory journal
But…Bluesky is federated, at least in principle. If it stays single-instance for more than a year or so following the current uptick in popularity, then I’ll accept that it’s de facto not federated.
@remindme@mstdn.social in 1 year
This right here is why federation is so cool.
It’s a beautiful thing.
@Emperor Ok, I will remind you on Monday Nov 17, 2025 at 9:18 AM PST.
Good bot
You can also add LaTex code in Word documents.
I was hoping for a \end{meme} in the text description 😢
Best I can offer is an overfull \hbox
Are there LaTeX haters? Why?
Markdown is expressive enough with better syntax.
I’d say anyone who has ever tried to use it hates it a little, even if they also love it
I remember having my fair share of grievences when I was learning it lol
Everytime you are forced to actually look at the log and try to understand the error, I hate that. But I love LaTeX still.
I wouldn’t say hater, more like “each tool for its job”
LaTeX can be quite cumbersome for certain tasks, same as Word is cumbersome for other tasks. It all depends what the tool is made for, and what you try to use it for.
It has a learning curve and it is better suited for technical work IMO. I wouldn’t tell a grandparent to write a letter using LaTeX for example.
I WOULD trust a grandparent to be able to download Mastodon and make an account, but still I think the analogy works nicely lol
I think anything involving PDF generation is cursed because PDF is a cursed format. And if I remember correctly, error messages for LaTeX tend to be shitty. But I don’t think anyone can dispute it’s the standard for a reason.
What’s the markdown of social media? Both derogatory and non-derogatory answers accepted
Ok I figured it out actually - it’s HackerNews (both derogatory and non-derogatory at the same time)
Screaming into the void (non derogatory)
/dev/null as a social media
Signal family groups.
That brief period of time when Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube were “ok”
Maybe it’s just nostalgia
