mookulator

Another day, another absurd melt down at Twitter.

So far, Mastodon has been unable to attract a significant number of high-profile users (politicians, leading thinkers/creators of various fields, celebrities etc). In my lay opinion, it won’t truly replace Twitter unless it does.

But today’s news of rate-limiting and self-DDOSing seems even more insane than before.

Is it having an effect? Are notable public figures moving? Are the numbers up?

I ask this out of genuine curiosity, with no other motive!

First of all, I post this as someone who is only modestly informed about the whole situation. I’m a casual user who moved here from Reddit mostly because of the blackout and I don’t have a super strong opinion about any of it.

I’m curious to learn though! Part of my curiosity is in the title - what’s the single worst thing the API changes have done (or will do)? Is it that they priced out Apollo? Is there another big third party app that’s getting killed?

Is it just me? I’m frequently seeing duplicates posts in my feed, on both Memmy and LiftOff. Anything I can do about this?

The title says it all. I’m looking for a community where people can ask questions and have open discussion about Lemmy overall, specific instances, communities within.

It seems people post questions about how to do things here, how to understand/explain Lemmy, discuss how Lemmy should be etc. in kind of a miscellaneous smattering of communities. Is there a community that brings that all together?

I read somewhere in here that other fediverse apps like Ice Cubes should be able to access Lemmy.World content to give one an experience similar to the Reddit app. I have Ice Cubes already for viewing mastodon posts and it works ok.

When I tried adding my account in Ice Cubes, it asked for an Instance URL.

I entered Lemmy.World and got the message “This instance is not currently supported”. Am I misunderstanding something, or is this not possible?