How did that go?

Do you plan on cooking in space?

Your username is a hell of a reference, haha

I think what it means is that it doesn’t add up all the little arrows across all posts and comments, by default. Although, I suppose an instance, external tool, or browser plugin could still do that.

There would not be a need to duplicate or sync all user databases across the fediverse to support SSO. In fact SSO already exists in other contexts and I haven’t heard of any implementation that works that way. It’s essentially accomplished by the authority and the service exchanging login tokens.

Personally, I am fresh enough to all this that I feel it’s prudent to kind of sit back on the discussion, and am leaning toward the “defederate” option.

However - I deleted my Facebook years ago, and never had Instagram or Twitter. It would be nice to interact with my own family and friends who do most of their online presence in places like that. So I kinda get it. I’m not after the mass-produced content but it would be cool to hear from people I know again that I’ve lost touch with because I’m stubborn about FB.

Just spitballing - and please consider that I haven’t been at Lemmy long enough to know if this is a terrible idea - but what about an instance that hasn’t blocked Facebook and other big corpos, but doesn’t raise their content by default? Like what if you have to actively connect with people on them? Seems like a decent middle ground, until Facebook decides to break it anyway.

I might be willing to help with this if you want to tackle it and are interested in help. I’m newish to Lemmy but want to get my feet wet. What tech stack do you prefer? Typescript is a very short leap from Javascript if you already know it, IMO.

Hmm I had a lot of trouble with jeroba, liftoff is working well for me at the moment though.

Are there numbers to back this up? I remember Pidgin being a contender to replace AIM for a time.

That is, they’re here not because they love Lemmy - but because they hate Reddit.

Anyone remember the Digg exodus? This was exactly how Reddit got big.

Anyway I do think it’s a little more than just hate, though. I have poked around at Lemmy before but I’m starting to take it more seriously because I actually cannot use Reddit on my phone anymore.

It does ask whether you’re a bot when your sign up, fwiw. Still honor system… And I don’t know what difference it makes after sign up

I wonder how much of a userbase this thing has who have never been on Reddit, though. Probably not more than a handful?