Yep, Usually people dont care until you start blasting away legit services. Then a lot of people start showing up at your door. Theres triangulation devices on https://www.tindie.com/ for amateurs that are very cheap and the pros have MUCH better equipment.

Meshtastic ( [email protected] ) is in a small range/spectrum and consolidated in LoRa. Its very unlikely to cause issues so its tolerated. Its very much a legal way to get text to a friend or community…if your local community is big enough.

Unfortunately that doesn’t work in lw

In some countries with vpn blocking it’s the only way to get videos. there’s also a lot of instances that don’t federate. The default English relays are quite bad for English speakers but in French for example there’s a huge amount of content.

Thats what I bet will happen. Elon is the “fellow kids” meme in a nutshell. He bought an entire platform to look cool, only to make the platform itself stale and broken. I feel bad for the employees that will have that on their resume (or laid off) but what can you do?

At least blue sky has the bridge. It kinda works. I will still be using mastodon/Gotosocial but to others they can use whatever platform they want to talk to me. Including family.

I’m fine with it. We don’t need to be the most popular, we just need to be there consistently.

People continue to come over slowly and then they keep engaging. It’s not fizzing out so it’s been very nice.

Its active in the non-english circles from what I hear. Probably a part of it.

Actually I believe you can use Mastodon as the login in this case: https://pixelfed.blog/p/2023/feature/introducing-sign-in-with-mastodon-streamlining-sign-up-and-login-on-pixelfed

Also does anyone know how to get the post into lemmy? Im having issues importing other fediverse posts so I had to direct link. I would rather the owner of the post get recognition and likes/shares show up in mastodon/activityhub rather than just a static link on lemmy if possible.

For example on mastodon/pixelfed/etc… I can pull the remote url and create a post/share. It seems specific to lemmy.world. On other lemmy platforms, I can see posts, just older ones.

I personally like the aluminum case. It keeps them alive longer than plastic laptops.

On the inside its just like any other laptop except more solder points between the components (I used to do repair work on them). And they can sell more used since everyone wants to pay the apple tax.

At this point, with proton/wine more major software works on Linux than Mac OS.

Its nice right now…Hope it stays.

My dog. no really, hes a good boy.

And I follow one of the people from an Aquarium with fantastic shots.

“compete” is a strong word. They can see us and we can see them. People are already posting from pixelfed to lemmy so its just pushing both platforms forward.

YouTube is now showing nothing but (tr)ump stuff…I have not looked at dump stuff on YouTube. It’s all positive on him too.

My wife just checked. Its now showing some pretty heinous things on the demo crat side…I dont think prior to the election that would have been tolerated. They definitely changed the “algorithm”.

Most servers do. Depends on their block/allow list and their setup.

The software supports it, you just need to make sure one of your users has followed an account/lemmy community on the pixelfed side and make sure a lemmy account follows an account on the pixelfed side.

Its not a perfect solution, but it gets the job done after that. (I tested this on an older version of lemmy and a new bleeding edge version of pixelfed)

One of the biggest ongoing issues with lemmy is that all the other fediverse systems generally work together pretty well but then you get to lemmy and it works…kinda? Mostly? But there is always quirks, like only being able to post but not see comments. as I say on lemmy :). I like the platform because of the ongoing community that seems to stick around and have sustainable growth (like oooold reddit).

Excellent. They are seeing huge growth. I’m hoping it’s sustainable, the main server is just getting slammed right now (according to the mastodon posts).

According to fedidb all they need is 70k ish more people and I get will surpass Lemmy in number of users.

Im imagining she forgot to put in her headphones, so everyone is hearing the music and everyone is silently judging lol.