There was a comment a few years ago, during the height of Trump and COVID, that basically said "You all remember when that Large Hadron Collider experiment went off and they said it was totally okay? You sure about that?"

I think it hits the same idea you've got. And I know this is crazy, but several years back (at a completely different time), I had the same feeling you're describing. I woke up with the feeling like there'd been a switch thrown and now reality was on a different track

It all started with Harambe. A series of events each more ridiculous than the last. At what point will they finally realize it's all fake? Tune in next week for the next thrilling installment!

Whoa, this is one I haven't come across. What is it?

This post is aboot a kitten, eh?

Well shjt, now j do too

¿Cuáles redes son populares en esos países? (No soy hispanoparlante pero hispano-curios 🙃 )

I am so goddamn uncomfortable right now

LOOK AT THIS GRAPH

I hope they call it Pooh Beer

It's like the old Monty Python joke. American beer is like making love in a canoe... It's fucking close to water.

App Cleaner!

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Have you checked out kbin? It has some of those features, and you can sub to lemmy communities with it. It also allows you to follow users, which lemmy doesn't seem to do. But you can't save posts at kbin, which is something I use a lot.

Edit: literally just discovered you can save comments and posts, at least here. I don't know if that's new or if I missed it somehow.

Nice! Good bot.

How would you describe their differences? I'm always curious to see what people think about the different instances.

Also a nice buffer against cars

Good but . . . itchy

Pretty much the same boat here. I have to say, it feels more like the place every day. There aren't as many people or posts, but the quality (and politeness) is higher. Someone mentioned that it's probably because everyone who migrated here is likely an adult since this is too obscure for kids who care about brands.

Nice! That's good to know. I also just checked out a post from @Arotrios@kbin.social with some great info about viewing and following posts from entire instances here. That's pretty mind-blowing.

I'm new to it as well and I've been poking around for info recently, so take this with a grain of salt.

Fediverse = Lemmies + Mastodons + Pixfed + all the other things that use Activity pub. They can, more or less, all talk to each other. So you can, more or less, get stuff from Lemmy on Mastodon and vice versa. But for right now, it looks like that can be a bit of a hassle -- or at least more of a hassle than we're used to with centralized services like FB, IG, Twitter, etc. You generally have to look them up and get a specific link and search on your own instance and follow.

But the fact that they can do this at all, and that so many people are working on making it better, means it will probably become easier and easier over time. And the more you play around with them, the less of a hassle it becomes.

My takeaway, for the moment, is that it's simpler to keep Mastodon and Lemmy as two separate things, but it's not so hard to cross instances within each of them. And since I am still new to this, I've joined a few instances of each to get a feel for them. Signups for both are really simple. The main thing I look at to decide if I'd want to join is their local feeds -- the things you could browse easily if you joined that instance. I feel like it gives you a sense of who's there and what they're posting and what the instance's main interests are.

I've been using lemmy.world as a general instance and joined beehaw.org and mander.xyz for more focused instances with different approaches to moderation and federation. But following communities across instances is pretty easy to do once you try it out. So that means you could have just one single instance and still follow interesting people or communities across all the other instances out there.

Awesome, thanks for this!