Threads was because if you had an Instagram account it ported over.

Bluesky was the Twitter clone made by the old Twitter CEO.

Most people didn’t have a problem with Twitter being a corporation, they had a problem with the new owner of the corporation making the experience terrible with his new changes.

It doesn’t need to take down reddit. I’d like to see Lemmy at 1 million active users though. Just need enough critical mass to be able to branch into more smaller sublemmys which draws in the fans of those subs specifically and creates better curated content.

Liftoff stopped working for Lemm.ee for me but not Lemmy.world so it must have been upgrade related. I couldn’t figure out how to fix it so I’m just switching to Connect, ha.

So every month is higher than the month 6 months prior, that seems pretty good. Obviously won’t be true 6 months after that July but certainly speaks to the community that has grown here and remained here.

At first I thought this was about the Pebble smart watch from 2012. Pretty confused how that becomes a Mastadon instance.

I think I like it but for the idiots like me, the plan is to have “groups” around the fediverse that equate to sublemmys, and Mastodon users can post with them or not, but if they do it essentially creates a sublemmy that Lemmy users can also interact with.

And on Mastodon the benefit would be that you could subscribe to topics instead of users?

Haha as a guy who definitely believed open source was the political force gathering steam to replace George W Bush back in the day…no.

Seems like it must be possible. No idea how to do it.

Nostr is most similar to what, Facebook? “Notes and other stuff” sounds like Facebook.

I don’t know that one-way solves the problem…you could “Absorb content” with an overzealous user or a bot. It wouldn’t subscribe the .world and .ml users to the same community.

Ideally you want someone to be able to subscribe to !technology@all or something.

Gotta say I like merged communities better than just multireddits. The problem we’re trying to solve is that one community of 1000 people is more than 10x better than 10 communities with 100 people, because instead of a bunch of posts or comments with less than 5 upvotes you get true content curation.

Would have to be voluntary and maybe there could be two levels, one where mods can only mod what is “truly” posted to their instance, and another where any mod can moderate anything in the combined community.