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Cake day: March 14th, 2023

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  • I use Threadiverse to mean Lemmy Piefed Kbin and similar part of the Fediverse, nothing to do with Meta. I selected this terminology to differentiate it from microblogging platforms like Mastodon, though they are absolutely welcome to participate by posting to Lemmy and Piefed communities. With character limits and other structural design differences I suppose it is just a harder challenge. If you have suggestions for another name to describe topic-based online socializing I’m all ears.

    Through the 10th proposed category, I’m hoping to make people aware of that connection to the wider Fediverse with links to Masto, PeerTube etc.



  • My first draft of the 10 categories:

    Vibrancy Challenge Categories
    1. (Freebie) Make a shitpost.
    2. Make a post about something other than technology or politics or a shitpost.
    3. Make a post showcasing a thing or topic you find interesting.
    4. Make a post to a community with less than 100 subscribers.
    5. Make a post to a community in a small instance.
    6. Make a post featuring a human-made piece of art.
    7. Make an on-topic comment to a post in a small community.
    8. Make a comment or post sharing news about a location relevant to you.
    9. Make a high-quality long form text post or comment.
    10. Post or comment a link from another part of the Fediverse.

    Feedback welcome.

    Update: Reception seems good. I’ll post something shortly here and on my home instance.




  • It should be highlighted that while the amount of people who left Reddit for alternatives might not have made a dent to Reddit in the long-run, it really was what brought Lemmy from a small experiment of a few hundred users with a few dozen active posters, to the thousands it is today.

    It wasn’t just the user count that changed, a lot of earlier Lemmy bugs started getting attention due to the need to scale, many more apps and frontends started being developed at the time, the lemmy community is multipolar, so it’s not dependent on just .world or .ml, and compatible but separate implementations like kbin and piefed were developed. These are all benefits to an open ecosystem that you could argue stemmed from that protest. You can forget about needing to fix Reddit now if you want, because with enough effort, Lemmy is an adequate replacement.