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I thought for a second if they had finally made Bluesky opt-out. Sadly it looks like we'll have to wait a bit longer for that. :)

Here's a Peertube mirror, timestamped at the shout-out to Mastodon and Peertube:

https://peertube2.cpy.re/w/rq6WfwnQTiHfpoWhURLNBS?start=25m14s

I lately stumbled over a discussion of Lemmy on Reddit (linked from !fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com, I guess), and some of the people in the discussion seemed to genuinely believe that Lemmy had completely died off following the first few days of interest from the Reddit community, similar to Tildes and whatever other services popped out through the years.

It's pretty fascinating, as I wouldn't think it takes that much to double check and realize the community on here is pretty vibrant.

I think part of the reason this happens is that the front page on Lemmy is less sensationalist and appears more slow moving, and there are of course fewer votes as we are not millions of users.

Which is where I spiral into checking what this comparison looks like in reality, and this comment becomes truly off-topic:

This is top five on the front page of Lemmy.world at the moment, not signed in:

• 1 day ago, 1.67 k upvotes: "Used to consume not produce". A meme about the kids not knowing what a C drive is.
• 13 hours ago, 570 upvotes: "Democracy is when the White House boasts about its king". Screenshot of white house tweet stating that Trump is now king.
• 2 days ago, 758 upvotes: "Europe preps huge defense package in boost to Ukraine: 'Never been seen'". An article about European aid to Ukraine
• 1 day ago, 469 upvotes: "So, is the USA screwed?". No stupid questions.
• 2 days ago, 868 upvotes: "Joe Rogan dethroned by anti-Trump podcast in the charts". Newsweek article.

Meanwhile, on Reddit, also not signed in and incognito for good measure:

• 2 hours ago, 15k upvotes: "The shower in the apartment I moved into self-destructs". A video of a shower that has been assembled wrong.
• 4 hours ago, 20k upvotes: "Thursday’s front page of the British Daily Star. Putin’s Poodle". The front page of a British tabloid.
• 20 hours ago, 18k upvotes: "What will Americans do if Social Security is reduced or done away with?". Ask reddit.
• 19 hours ago, 9k upvotes: "Trump finally calls out the Ukraine scam". Fascist propaganda from the conservative subreddit.
• 8 hours ago, 40k upvotes: "Trump can’t end birthright citizenship, appeals court says, setting up Supreme Court showdown". CNN article.

So of course, if you're used to the pace of Reddit, the Lemmy frontpage will appear slow, as if the site is half dead. Meanwhile, seen from Lemmy, the Reddit frontpage looks like it's a dangerous fucking tool made and controlled by capitalists to pacify and brainwash the masses, spewing out bullshit at an alarming pace.

But yeah, point is, no wonder they think we're dead, there's an article from two days ago on the front page.

Anyway, glad to have you back!

It changes from server to server and community to community. It's important to keep in mind that a world news community is not only a world news community; it's a world news community hosted at a specific instance. Some of them will be run better than others, and if one gets the feeling one community attracts the wrong audience one might be better off avoiding it and checking if someone has already started an alternative community somewhere else.

That, and blocking people who make no valuable contribution.

It has gotten really, really good for photography. There's a bunch of incredible photographers posting their stuff on the Fediverse these days, and they enjoy the appeal of it that it's closer to what Instagram was before it became an influencer hub.

As for random cats and dogs, I guess some people enjoy that as well.

She's not interested in using any social media at all, she just wants a place to toot about her publications because it's part of the job. So some Mastodon instance specific to her field is pretty much as good as it gets for her usecase. As an academic the domain-specific Mastodon instances are pretty great.

I like Mbin a lot though! :)

As an academic, there are several users on Bluesky I would like to follow. Sadly very few are bridged for now. Hopefully all Bluesky accounts will be open for bridging at some point.

Another advantage is that thanks to Bridgy I can convince my partner to join Mastodon instead of Bluesky to promote her work, as the reach is the same on either platform.

Hi, and welcome!

Lemmy does not, as of now, interoperate very well with Fediverse services such as Mastodon and Pixelfed. Sure, you can follow Lemmy communities from Mastodon, but it's not a pleasant experience. The group just boosts everything that is ever posted to it.

Likewise, Lemmy does not work with Phanphy - it has its own API, and separate apps. It's too different from Pixelfed/Mastodon for it to make sense to share an API.

If you search for @elena@lemmy.world at mastodon.social you will, however, be able to see your user from there; you can view this post, and if you have an account you can comment on it and contribute to the discussion like anyone else. You can also boost the post or comments to it, making it possible for content from Lemmy to reach far and wide. We sometimes do get comments from Mastodon users, so it clear that this happens every now and then, but mostly it's kept separate.

Mastodon users can also post to Lemmy by tagging a community (like they would tag an a.gup.pe group), but it's not very intuitive.

We commonly refer to Lemmy as part of the Threadiverse - a subset of the Fediverse which revolves around threaded discussions around shared content (Reddit like). The main platforms are Lemmy, Mbin (which is what I'm currently posting from), and PieFed.

Mbin and PieFed go further in the direction of interoperability than Lemmy does. Mbin supports Mastodon-like microblogging; if you check out the search for the hashtag Lemmy, you'll see not only this post, but also microblogs from Mastodon and all kinds of content. Limited, of course, by what is federated with that instance (Kbin.earth doesn't have too many users).

In Piefed, users can follow Mastodon groups made with a.gup.pe, such as the knitting group. Often Mastodon users start their posts by tagging each other, so it doesn't look completely native, but it can be neat. You can also follow PeerTube channels directly in Piefed.

In short, it's quite complicated - there are different platforms, and they all solve interoperability differently and prioritize it to different degrees. There's always the possibility that Mastodon users will stop by and say hello, but how easy it is made for them to do so varies quite a lot.