The great thing is that if a lot of people like Mastodon they can use it and if you don’t like it you can use something differenent and you will still be able to communicate. That’s the whole point.
noo the nerds need to have a superiority complex online because they can’t prove anything in real life
As a nerd that doesn’t gatekeep and can prove something in real life, hey 😕
We gatekeeping liking the Fediverse now?
Gatekeeping the Fediverse? Cringe
To be honest, I think the best way to get Lemmy to grow in the near term will probably be getting more people to use both Mastodon and Lemmy, rather then hoping more people will shake away from reddit. I’m active on Lemmy but probably use mastodon more.
Ironically I’m the inverse. I spent some time on Mastodon, but I’m more into the Reddit/Lemmy format.
What I’d really like to see is the ActivityPub API being used to it’s best ability. Theoretically, if it were better implemented on both Mastodon, Lemmy and other ActivityPub fediverse infrastructure, We could be able to see Mastodon posts on Lemmy instances as though they were always a Lemmy post, and vice versa.
I don’t get it.
People who say they love the fediverse are usually talking about Mastodon, not Lemmy.
Maybe. Or, like most users, they are aware that “fediverse” refers to the ActivityPub network as a whole, as well as adjacent networks such as matrix and diaspora.
When I say fediverse, I don’t mean Lemmy. If I want to refer to the part of the fediverse we are using, Lemmy/Kbin, I say threadiverse. It’s just one corner of the network.
I have no interest in the twitter format for social media, but people who do and enjoy mastodon, have just as much right to be excited about federation and what it can do for social media.
What I don’t understand, is why make this meme? Neither Lemmy nor Mastodon, is “the fediverse”. Only together, do they become a “universe” of federated instances, and even disparate platforms, which yet interoperate.
A Mastodon user who says they love the fediverse, likely loves it for the same reasons a Lemmy, Kbin, Friendica, Pixelfed, or MissKey user does. Where’s the joke?
Where’s the joke?
With this post I just described some people I’ve met on my journey through fediverse that were saying that they love fediverse meaning by it only Mastodon, as if it’s the only platform out there. It’s a small number of people, that don’t affect anything. Of course after spending more time on fediverse they find out about other platforms(and that’s good). The point of the meme is just to make a little fun of them, nothing offensive.
It’s a shame how often people forget us. Though could be a good thing given how much drama there is in some parts of Lemmy
I doesn’t matter which platform is a users point of contact. I don’t think a lot of users miss the point that “fediverse” refers to all the platforms their platforms communicate with, together. Not just their platform.
