Bluesky isn’t a twitter alternative, it’s staged opposition. It’s backed by the crypto industry. It’s going to follow everything else that’s supported by the tech bros.

I’d be surprised. They’ve actually been federating for months now. Maybe they’ve seen a rush of signups kicking the tires, and that’s expanded the firehose?

I did this a few months ago. I haven’t found replacements for everything, but I’ve found that it’s really come down to my not actually using those things very much in the first place, so I haven’t had to do the work.

When I look, I find something that works. What are you still looking for?

I find the array of installation options a little overwhelming or intimidating sometimes. If I can just do the equivalent of apt-get, that’s, of course, easy enough. But sometimes things are just realeased as tar balls, and I have to go and look up WTF I’m supposed to do each time. Nothing comes up often enough for me to internalize it.

I do find myself chafing against just the fundamental differences of the *nix environment from the DOS-based heritage of Windows. And I find it difficult to get help with certain things sometimes because the installed user/developer base isn’t super interested in supporting different modes of interaction (“just use the terminal, it’s so much faster [for me]” is a common refrain that makes me want to get stabby). But 99% of the time, it’s been smooth sailing.

At this stage, if you have drivers for everything, and there’s nothing mission critical that’s still tied to Windows, the best advice I can give you is to copy your important files over from your Windows partition, and then dump it. If you have a 2nd computer, leave that one running Windows for now. The duel booting can make it tempting to just reboot into Windows “just for this one thing”, and stay there until you next have to restart.

Ok, which one of you goobers killed the website?

“How dare there be an active world in my murder hobo wankfest?”

What we really need is for people to put up topic focused sites and promote them as their own thing, not jusy “lemmy”. So many specific interests still have very active forums dedicated to them, populated by the kind of people who want to ask queations aboht and discuss the things they have interest or expertise in, but who aren’t into things like Reddit.

The fediverse is perfect for places like that. Places where you can focus on your primary interest, but also look over the fence. But all anyone wants to do is put up general interest sites and whine about there being more than one “gaming” forum.

Recommendation engines aren’t the biggest issue. People will figure out how to fins what they want, and be generally happy with that, if looking is easy enough.

The big issue is that “join the fediverse” is a really, really shitty and incomplete recommendation. It’s like “join the blogosphere!”

And “join Mastodon” or “join Lemmy” is bad, too. It’s like asking them to “join Joomla”.

You need to point people to the specific website they should join, and that website has to already have what they’re looking for. People aren’t interested in building something.

They just want to consume.

Most people have no idea about the fetish circles and the languaged used in relation to them. They recoil at “fediverse” not because of sex association, but because it’s a really lame sounding name.

“I don’t want AOLers on the web. The open internet should just be for us enlightened few”

JFC, * don’t want you pricks on the fedi. Can’t you go back to BBSes or something and wank each other there?

Phones have web browsers. You can view websites easily from your phone.

Apps give them access to everything. You can request access to contact lists, even, and most people won’t even think twice to allowing access.

How fucking dare they. If they were going to ruin my day, couldn’t they have at least picked one at the end of my life?

No, but that’s a great idea.

For the confused: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0hETFY67F0

Well, see, Mastodon has had a functional monopoly on ActivityPub usage, and also Mastodon users are able to and do engage with Lemmy communities. Mastodon’s share of AP usage going down is of interest because the fediverse has a monoculture issue, and that’s a thing people on a forum like this one should keep in mind.

Misskey’s char limit is an admin setting, FWIW. There are plenty of *key servers with higher.

Yeah. I think Misskey defaults to 2000, and supports up to 7000. And Glich-soc supports signidicantly higher, and that’s a Masto fork.

And you think Mark Cuban is funding what, exactly? A member’s co-op?

Your freedom to worship (or not) doesn’t mean you’re free from the social consequences, though