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As Twitter ditches its iconic branding in favor of owner Elon Musk's favorite letter "X," its open source competitor Mastodon is once again seeing usage numbers soar.

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[–] [email protected] 76 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm just here to spread the good word about old.lemmy.world

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can't wait for Lemmy Enhancement Suite.

Because LES is more.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Honestly my favorite thing about Lemmy so far is that the web UI already has most of the things I wanted RES to have. And it's all open source so we can just improve the UI directly. No need for browser changes!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Same!

Though I do miss the content/comment filters that RES could do!

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Or Kbin! Kbin can do both microblogging and link aggregation/discussion. Tbh departing Twitter users coming to Mastodon, and reddit refugees are brought together on Kbin.

The "all-in-one" method acomplished by Kbin is a huge feat, especially when it's built by a single person from scratch (ie; not based on lemmy codebase wise) and still much more ActivityPub compatible.

Kbin is sadly very underrated imo.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I feel that's a feature of Lemmy to not do both. I don't care about microblogs. I want the sites that I use to do one thing and do it as well as possible, so I can mix & match what I use, and not see what I don't want.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It needs a mobile app to take off, imo.

Additionally, since it is just one guy (that I'm aware of), I'm not sure how sustainable it is for him. I believe he's been surviving off some EU grant and donations, but once the grant runs out and donations slow, the server costs for delivering content to tens of thousands of users every day are going to start being pretty rough to handle. Has he explained what his plan is for long term sustainability?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

@ArtemisApp is in beta right now. @hariette has been hard at work. I look forward to trying it soon. Hopefully. I’m not on discord, and that’s where most people are getting beta.

[–] can 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's a beta sign up form. I got an invite and I was never on the discord. I believe open beta is very soon anyway though.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I’m on the form. Been on there for a bit. Mostly I like pointing out that an app is being actively developed for kbin, and that I have never used it so I cannot tell you more.

I think lemmy people should know that @hariette has previously stated that Artemis will work there too. At least, I’m pretty sure they said that. Children have turned my brain to mush and my memory is about as reliable as a 3 year old.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

It was one guy until recently. But now if you look at the Kbin commits, it looks like 3 or 4 people. It's growing.

https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/commits/branch/develop

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Great for the fediverse there's many different codebases.