Some people cannot seem to even be able to login.
Not a great day for social media. Twitter down, Reddit has not 3rd party apps, Lemmy is being hugged to death by people bailing Reddit and Twitter.
I guess I’ll go outside.
2023 has been historical for social media, so much changing so fast.
Lemmy isn’t hugged to death. The issue is that everyone is just heading to the same handful of instances.
Maybe they should update the join-lemmy.org page to suggest joining smaller instances. They put popular instances at the top and presumably that’s what everyone wants to join.
Yes, that’s most likely the cause.
The instance I’m on is working fine, I think the problem is people are gravitating towards the largest 2-3 instances.
I was able to login 🤷♂️
I’ve been feeling a significant amount of sadness at the feeling like I’ve now fully lost the 2 places that were my havens for safety and community during the pandemic (Twitter and Reddit). I mostly disconnected a few weeks/months ago, but this weekend feels like the full, official breakup. I wonder if anyone/everyone else is feeling the same?
Yesterday felt to me like the day Web 2.0 died. It’s actually rather awkward. Web 2.0 devolved into enshittification, Web 3.0 to many looks to be a scam from the outset, and that leaves us with the Fediverse as the most hopeful continuation of what we liked about Web 2.0. But what is the Fediverse? More of the same as Web 2.0? An entirely new thing? I’ve been coming to view the Fediverse as being Web 2.0.1. It’s a bug fix. The corporations controlling Web 2.0 were the problem, not the idea of a more dynamic and interactive web. The solution isn’t strictly speaking Peer 2 Peer solutions, as many people still want a curated and moderated space, so they’re not dealing with a constant onslaught of dicks and nazis they didn’t ask for (I’m sure someday the Peer 2 Peer networks will have a viable solution for that, but for now, they don’t as far as I can tell). But a networked governance structure in which volunteers own the instances and the users have more choice in how their space is moderated seems like a major fix to what we were seeing before, and I think it’s a major benefit for all of us
Absolutely, and the coordination is deeply suspicious. Steve Huffman said he didn’t want to be like Twitter, but then admitted in interview that he’d had several meetings with Elon. His nose is brown, and it smells musky.
It’s time to abandon Twitter to the fascists and bots.
I truly don’t understand why people keep trying to use Twitter despite open and obvious changes designed to be hostile to users. Not to mention the reliability issues that continue to crop up as a result of axing nearly your entire engineering staff.
Let’s get them over to Mastodon! #fediverse (yes I’m going all in)
apareantly theyre agressively rate limiting: 300 posts per day for new accounts, 600 for unverified, 6000 for verified
Good! It’s time to change to something with better potential than twatter
Would it be possible to have you fediverse username connected to the blockchain so you could use it to associate with an instance? And if that instance closed, say, you could simply connect your blockchain based account identity to another instance?
Why would blockchain be necessary to do that? Honestly, 99% of the time blockchain is just a highly inefficient buzzword.
Usually there are better ways to achieve the same outcome, with the added bonus of not automatically attracting a cavalcade of Web3 con-artists and grifters.
Just went over to Twitter for the first time in a while, and everyone’s bleating about wanting an invite to Bluesky.
Meanwhile, Mastodon’s over there just working fine and doing what they want Twitter to do.
It’s bizarre.
Normies are confused by Mastodon and how it works. Tried suggesting it as an alternative on /r/worldnews and most people just said that it was too confusing; one guy said that he couldn’t login but turns out he forgot which instance he had signed up for originally.
