Kazaii

I’d say they’re comparable and have similar problems experienced in different ways.

On mastodon, a big name becomes the stress on the server. It’s like people showing up to a small coffee shop to hear a politician speak about something. If the politician becomes more renowned / popular, eventually they have rallies. Eventually those rallies are broadcasted and licestreamed… All that means more infra and more $

Lemmy has the problem of communities. Communities sometimes gather in small places like a person’s house or a bar. If that community grows large, maybe they need to have a conference / convention (like an anime or tech community). That means the instance that hosts that community has to has a conference sized instance, to host all the lads/lasses/etc of the fediverse.

More eyeballs / more discussion = more demand. Simple as that.

edit: I will add that there is one difference. You might have your own little small fragmented community, here on sh.itjust … like for skateboards. More intimate discussion, etc. This would potentially prevent c/skateboards on an instance from growing too large…

But there is only one @gargron that most people will follow.

I am also following a specific community here on RSS. Nice to go through my articles and see someone asking for technical help / advice – or simply sharing something cool.

Ah, maybe it was just slow to load and I rushed to delete it. Either way, I’m glad I did…

Good idea on the throwaway. It’s time to rip off the band-aid.

Wow… I just uninstalled Boost after midnight. Looks like it will be back soon :)

It stopped working for me after midnight and they put a banner explaining it in the bottom right. RIP to many good commutes browsing random info in my various subreddits.

Ou!! thanks for this.

Elden Ring

God of War

Hoping either one gets a good discount because I have a lot of train rides coming up.

Thanks! I’ll save this tip for the chilly months.

Nice list. I missed out on Morrowind … maybe it’s time to give it a go.

Aye

As long as we have a weekly thread where DonDraper posts are allowed

lol, sorry. Sh.it.heads**

I agree with your added notes. If Meta’s P92 instance became the de-facto party that everyone’s at, I would likely self-host my own instance and use that to browse/communicate, if there’s anything of value there; I know a lot of Homebrewing groups flock to Facebook today. I would keep my sh.itjust.works account to have more meaningful engagement. It’s kinda like my two emails… my shitty gmail account I’ve had for a long time & my email meant for more curated communication.

Personally, I’m enjoying both sh.itjust.works & my niche Mastodon instance (noc.social). It’s nice to be part of a community, but be able to follow/search those beyond. I agree with your ideals that we should praise this method and educate everyone who misses the protocol for a platform.

Great question, great read. Thanks for posting this.

I think there are really great points / angles being presented on this issue. If you Shitheads want to de-federate, I’ll stand in solidarity; However, I very much concur with a lot of the salient nuance being presented in this thread, along with the linked threads.

At the end of the day, this particular community should take action in defense of the plural. Those who feel otherwise, revel in the utility of freedom-of-exit that the fediverse grants us – yet, I hope your new community will stay federated so we can continue to share ideas.