Gil (he/they)

Respectfully, how on earth did this design get cleared? 😭

VS Code, but may switch to VSCodium or Neovim eventually.

I use mostly the web app. Memmy, Mlem, Jerboa, Liftoff, etc. all look cool, but to be honest, I’m not sure I’ll ever go back to having an app on my phone like I did with Reddit. I think I want my engagement with Lemmy to be more on a “when I feel like it” basis than a “when a push notification summons me” basis.

This person’s upvoting beans, and you’re all just going to do nothing about it? What a sick world we live in.

Yeah, I checked the Github and there are a few open issues right now labeled ‘enhancements’ and ‘federation’ which talk about how posts from Mastodon (and other software) should be displayed on Lemmy and vice versa. So it’s at least on the radar and a known problem from the Lemmy side.

Honestly the biggest problem for me with reading Lemmy threads from the Mastodon end is exactly what the OP said, but I have no clue if Eugen plans to change how post threads are displayed in timelines on Mastodon and its forks.

GNOND much, what’s GNOND with you?

I agree - I would probably recommend even using archive.ph or the Wayback Machine to archive/permalink anything like top posts, if they’re really important. Copying all of the contents of a subreddit to a Lemmy instance just seems like overkill.

Personally, I don’t think replacement should be the goal. As others have said, a better, more likely outcome is that the Fediverse become a viable alternative to big social media (in the eyes of the public) & an influential part of the ecosystem.

And anyways, the Fediverse is a solution for me - and others, presumably - but it probably won’t be the solution for social media influencers, terminally online political provocateurs, people stuck in the endless, algorithmic (and psychologically manipulative) stream of ‘content’ which Big Social offers, advertisers, etc. As long as people have those sorts of relationships to social media and as long as capitalism and consumerism exist, big social media platforms will always be around to capitalize on that and fill that niche.

Plus, the barrier to entry for the Fediverse is technical skill, which has impeded its accessibility to the broader public. While making the Fediverse more accessible and cultivating that technical skill and know-how in the public are both things I support, I appreciate the more intentional social media communities which are forming around here and are able to grow sustainably quite possibly because it’s harder for the average person to wrap their head around. It reminds me a lot of the older days of the internet.

The best thing for that, IMO, is for the Fediverse to continually exist in its decentralized state and provide unique examples of how social media could be, for it to keep growing slowly, for average people to come here of their own volition, see how things are here, and decide on their own that they want to be part of it.