Okay, for context, this means that Lemmy has gained 4.4K MAUs over last month.

Not bad.

Hey, where are you getting these stats from? I ask because FediDB is down.

Here’s the link:

https://atomicpoet.org/@atomicpoet/posts/Ar1k52vf54XylLFsJM

To answer your question, Bookface is an alternative—and better—UI for Friendica. And Friendica is essentially a federated alternative to Facebook.

You don’t need to wait on Mastodon to do it.

Obviously, I’m not talking about you specifically – Threadiverse devs generally.

For example, some of this functionality already exists on Friendica.

Right now, you can crosspost to a Friendica group by mentioning the group actor handle (ex: @fediversenews@venera.social. And because Friendica supports quoted boosts, you can boost to a Friendica group through this method.

Lemmy could easily support this feature.

It really would be so much easier to just boost Mastodon posts into a Lemmy community.

Cults aren’t isolated by others. They self-isolate.

People need to know this feature exists and that it’s a good thing.

On the Fediverse, no admin decides anything a user does. If you don’t like your server, you can just walk over to another one. Most software even makes account migration between servers super easy.

Or if you don’t trust admins at all—and I don’t—you can run your own server and federate with who you please.

This is not Reddit. Admins don’t hold ultimate power of what does or does not get seen. However, you do—and you can mute, block, or defederate as you see fit.

Well, you seem to be upset that people are able to block entire instances. That’s just a weird stance for an anarchist to have.

What if I told you anyone can run their own server and consequently have the freedom to federate with who they wish?

The value of the Fediverse isn’t just freedom of speech. It’s freedom of association.

You have freedom of speech. I also have the freedom to walk away from your speech and listen to someone else.

That’s the same talking points the alt-right uses and we don’t tolerate it.

And I’ve been on the Internet long enough to watch so-called “progressive” spaces get hijacked by the right wing under the guise of “free speech”.

When a culture grows toxic, it’s simply toxic no matter their talking points.

So the fact people have the power to block entire instances at their discretion, this is a good thing.

You are not entitled to my attention, nor am I entitled to yours.

No one is entitled to attention, and sometimes people need to take a breather for their own mental health.

I’m not a Lemmy admin, but from what I’m seeing, there’s been an uptick of 4,000 Lemmy registrations within the last 24 hours.

There’s now 477,048 Lemmy accounts.

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