It was well before I turned one; I was still in a crib. It was dark, nighttime, and incredibly hot. Some sort of animal with glowing eyes stared at me from the floor.

I thought it was a dream, but decades later my parents confirmed that when I was a baby the thermostat had broken and we had a night where the temperature was 100°. As for the animal with glowing eyes, that was our cat.

If there’s a way to do it, I don’t know it. But it’s on my list of features to recommend for future iterations of Lemmy.

One thing I haven’t been able to check out yet is to see if posts are search-engine-facing.

Only if that’s all you look at.

Power is addictive. At least for some people.

If the content is low quality, other servers may choose to de-federate with them. And there is nothing forcing individual members to subscribe to the communities of those corporate instances.

Not bad! The anchor was a little off on his definition of subreddits, and they could have mentioned spez lying and the accessibility issues more. Plus it would have been nice if they had mentioned Lemmy by name. But all in all, not too bad!

And with any luck the money men won’t be able to come in and take our communities here. One thing I am hoping is developed in the next year or two is full portability for Fediverse accounts: the option to easily switch all your posts, comments, messages, and community subscriptions to a new server.

The many thousands of free ebooks at Project Gutenberg and on other sites like it.

Yup, me too. That was perfect!

I talked to several non-technical people today, and all of them had heard at least something about it. They didn’t know a ton necessarily, but they were interested and asked me to explain. The mainstream news has been covering it at least a bit.

I agree that the double @ is off-putting.

107k. But what really matters to me are the thanks I got from people I helped out with book recommendations.

I was agitating too.

But nobody’s dying. Yes, communities are being broken up and fragmented. But the individuals who made up those communities are still there. They still have thoughts and opinions to share. One way or another, they WILL be back.

This has happened many times before. I’ve seen it. It will happen again. But maybe, this time, the Fediverse will provide a place for the best of those communities to be safe…free from the greed of our psychotic ruling class.

Absolutely. Capitalists are mad dogs. You are never ever safe with them. I like the Fediverse. I’d like to see it improved by becoming fully democratic and publicly funded.

Tildes is, but it doesn’t sound good to me.

I’d like to know, too! Can we even swear here?

Just like Dr. Mengele!

“These eyes are brown…I would prefer them to be blue!” -spez

But isn’t squabbles owned by a single company? I thought I heard that. So the same thing will probably end up happening there.

No, I signed up for Mastodon long ago. Didn’t get a ton of use out of it, but I posted there occasionally. I’ve had too many platforms bought out from under me and turned to crap, so the idea of the fetaverse appeals to me. Okay, the fetaverse was invented by Android voice dictation. I invite everyone to come up with their own ideas of what that Greek cheese-based universe might be like. 😆

But I’ve gotten far more into the Fediverse In the last two or three days then in the previous 59 years. I’ve set up Lemmy, kbin, and BookWyrm accounts. I know they can all theoretically connect, but I don’t know how to do it yet.

I think Lemmy desperately needs to integrate two things:

• The ability to search for communities across instances inside of Lemmy (I’m aware of the search option outside of Lemmy, but that’s less than ideal)
• The ability to easily search within posts A) in all local communities, B) in all subscribed communities, and C) across all communities in the whole Fediverse. Yes, I’m aware that C) is a huge ask. But I think it’s vital to the success of Lemmy.