Thanks, the English language has saved its dignity right now.

(unlike the Cambridge Dictionary website which is apparently infected with some malware which redirects to some shady “error-report dot com” site)

Apparently there is no such an idiom in English as “to dig someone/oneself in” and one has to use e.g. let oneself in for sth or land someone in sth.

Sincere condolences.

… but actually one cannot describe Lemmy’s pitch in one simple sentence, because its main difference is: Reddit but no Spez, fora but connected to each other (and we call this “federation”), and Mastodon but with better topic and content discovery. Any attempt to shorten this will be more or less inaccurate.

So, main Lemmy features, listed under the “Join an instance”, “Apps”, “Explore random instance”, etc., IMHO should look like this:

No ads. No tracking. No meddling.

Posts and comments on your feed are determined only by your settings and users’ votes. All moderation actions are public and viewable using a modlog. We do not block third-party apps. Lemmy is a free software and you can check it for yourself.

(we are practically saying Reddit without Spez)

No single overlord. No isolation

There are dozens of Lemmy websites and you can choose your experience with different vibes, topics, regions and moderation approaches. Yet every instance connects to other ones (forming the Fediverse) and allows you to seamlessly talk with each other, even outside of control of Lemmy creators!

(fora but not siloed. Discussion viewable regardless of where you are logged in)

Know the entire discussion on the topic

All the talk on Lemmy happens on communities. Subscribe to any of them and you will receive complete threads of conversation, regardless where you are signed in. A search, which actually works.* Decentralised, but not fragmented.

(Mastodon but actually not fragmented)

All three “features”/“upsides” of Lemmy are related to each other, somewhat like rock-paper-scissors. All form one pitch of a platform which combines the best features of Reddit, fora and Mastodon solving downsides of these at the same time. It would make sense to display these on the carousel.

*does the search on Lemmy work better than on e.g. Reddit? A “better search than on Mastodon” claim would be plausible, anyway

Your own discussion network

Index of all Castopod podcasts, sortable by language and genre

Mbin federates with Mastodon & co and allows to sort microblog posts like on Lemmy.

There are several “competing” server softwares and maybe a dozen od different clients for different platforms.

Movim is the only XMPP client I am aware od which has expanded its features into a social “AppView” (as it would be called on ATmosphere)

Huger than you think: this top 10 included Mastodon instances.

geddit.social was technically my first Lemmy instance (although I used /kbin earlier and more than this). Owned by Stux (mstdn.social, pixey.org, gram.social,…) but it was late for lemmy.world-like growth.

trivia: Stux tried also to make a /kbin instance, (along with other prominent Mastodon instance owners. Only Fedia.io, from infosec.exchange survived. Kudos for Jerry). He has called it forum.fail

For a brief moment it was one of 10 largest Fediverse instances by MAU. I dont’t remember now, if it was not larger than even lemmy.world

MBin allows to follow individual users, including these from Lemmy.

Expect lack of comments for some posts for these users for the same reason as in Mastodon: the user might have posted to communities not subscribed from your instance yet as well…

Pleroma (including Akkoma) is aimed at smaller instances, which don’t necessarily have enough popular local posts or followed accounts to make a sufficient number of reposts.

Local feed shows better how is instance like anyway.

Make an account on MBin instance and use Interstellar.

crap.itdidnt.work

Apparently there is a decentralized internet out there. Just we are not experiencing it right now. Skill issue, huh?

insert cursed wojak reaction

Mine were PieFed.social, PieFed.zip and fedit.pl. I am aware of lemmy.world too. Probably there were more

Just only one extra alt, I swear…

This is how an offtop category on ICD Forum looks like on PieFed. Yes, it’s in Polish

Yes, you want to sort posts on Discourse or NodeBB by Active. Check “View community on another server” ;)

If it federates to Mastodon, then it will federate to PieFed too.

Federation with PieFed worka fine.

To Misskey, whose channels do not even federate? (and no fork has changed this behaviour) To Pixelfed, which promised having groups many times, but still has not delivered them yet? To Friendica, which suffers from performance issues, and fixes for them will arrive only in the future? To PieFed, Mbin or Lemmy and give up on feeds of followed people? Out of the Fediverse?