Good meme but had to downvote because this has nothing to do with the fediverse.

You’re doing your part :)

I may have used Facebook as a bit of a provocative example here… But even on Facebook, there are certain groups that could enjoy the fediverse.

The fediverse should be for everyone.

Bluesky is not truly decentralized, in the same way that Mastodon is. Bluesky is effectively centralized and is still controlled by an american corporation and could in principle be bought in the same way that Twitter was. Lastly, Bluesky made their own protocol instead of using the already-standard ActivityPub protocol. That’s why a lot of people are skeptical and recommend Mastodon instead.

I still active on Reddit, Twitter, YouTube and sometimes LinkedIn for work (never used Facebook and Instagram) and I like Lemmy and Mastodon alot but I see no reason to restrict myself to only use Fediverse.

I understand that - hopefully the fediverse can provide a viable alternative for all of those platforms in the future. Right now I don’t think anything like LinkedIn exists on the fediverse, for instance.

why do you guys call Twitter, Xitter?

I think the idea of Xitter is to pronounce is as “shitter”, because Twitter became (more) shit with Elon Musk’s rebranding as X.

Glad someone guided you back!

100% fair! Not everyone can muster the will to wander into that hellhole. Some brave few might try :)

The only person that “chose” him is his mom, which makes him equally special to almost every other person on the planet.

Honestly it’s kinda fucked that in the HP universe, apparently no other mother than Lily loved their child enough to sacrifice themselves and use this love protection magic on them.

m8 literally everyone on the fediverse is an outlier 😅

Right. I guess I just don’t understand the use case since I’m used to comment trees (like here on Lemmy) and you’re never confused about what someone is replying to since the comment being replied to is always just right above.

Is it just that it links back to the original or what? I mean how is it different from just quoting the post like this:

It’s like a repost, but it lets you add your own post to it and shows the original post as a quote bubble.

And then saying something about it?

Can someone please tell me what a quote post is? Maybe I’m blind but I don’t see an explanation for what it actually is anywhere.

The political leaning is definitely unfortunate. The fediverse should be for everyone, not just a certain political section.

I would think and hope so.

they can harass you by continually sending you replies for WEEKS and WEEKS at a time (this actually happened to me twice, once with hexbear.net and another time with lemmygrad.ml).

Honestly you really shouldn’t be on an instance that federate with those places to start with.

You may be interested to read some of the ways that PieFed is advancing democratization of moderation.

Personally I’m not a fan of the way PieFed uses upvotes and downvotes to basically do statistics on users in order to profile “bad actors”. That feels like karma from Reddit all over again.

There can be many legitimate reasons why a user might downvote a lot, and a user being downvoted a lot is not necessarily problematic. They may just not be following the “hive mind”, and honestly we could use more of those users.

When a fediverse app wins, the whole fediverse wins. A rising tide lifts all ships or however it goes.

Doesn’t change the fact that Lemmy does not support posts outside of communities.

Okay, sure you could have apps open links to external posts, as the app would know that it would need to fetch the post by searching the URL (switched with a HTTPS scheme). I can kinda see the point of that. I’m not sure the fediverse and ActivityPub is really super mature enough for that yet. For instance you can’t fetch Mastodon posts from Lemmy.

By “claiming addresses” you mean domains? Or what?

You mean because the address in the fediverse scheme would be domain-independent? How in the world would that work? How would it know what to connect to? You’re proposing something completely different than ActivityPub at least.

Changing the scheme doesn’t really make any difference if it’s still just HTTP underneath. The scheme is just for indicating a protocol. So what’s the different protocol you’d actually propose?