What would Threads be in this analogy, maybe Edge browser?
Always being shoved in your face, an artificially high "user count", but after a while people don't really use it?
Perhaps the Fediverse needs a helpful paperclip like mascot to help with on-boarding.
"Hi, I'm Freddy Verse your friendly guide to the Fediverse, let me help you pick your new home. Please answer these questions:"
What type of service are you looking for?
Where do you live?
What are you interested in?
So long as everyone has to have the Germans in their feed I’m ok with it. Everyone needs to understand what a Stör is.
Just looked it up - a sturgeon?
So around the time that the Reddit migration to Lemmy happened ich_iel had a bunch of sturgeon memes that confused us anglophones
To slightly unconfuse people: those were based around the pun that while Stör means sturgeon, stören means to disturb/annoy.
My friend is asking what the dick pic instance is.
I think the first rule of dick pic instance is: don't talk about the dick pic instance.
Are there LaTeX haters? Why?
I'd say anyone who has ever tried to use it hates it a little, even if they also love it
I remember having my fair share of grievences when I was learning it lol
Everytime you are forced to actually look at the log and try to understand the error, I hate that. But I love LaTeX still.
I wouldn't say hater, more like "each tool for its job"
LaTeX can be quite cumbersome for certain tasks, same as Word is cumbersome for other tasks. It all depends what the tool is made for, and what you try to use it for.
It has a learning curve and it is better suited for technical work IMO. I wouldn't tell a grandparent to write a letter using LaTeX for example.
I WOULD trust a grandparent to be able to download Mastodon and make an account, but still I think the analogy works nicely lol
I think anything involving PDF generation is cursed because PDF is a cursed format. And if I remember correctly, error messages for LaTeX tend to be shitty. But I don’t think anyone can dispute it’s the standard for a reason.
Markdown is expressive enough with better syntax.
What's the markdown of social media? Both derogatory and non-derogatory answers accepted
I've got GitHub categorized as social media. Just FYI.
That's silly. It's obviously a dating platform.
Radioactive carbon dating my abandoned projects, definitely.
Dead on. All you have to do is ask programmers about datetime and you'll get lots of replies.
Ok I figured it out actually - it's HackerNews (both derogatory and non-derogatory at the same time)
Screaming into the void (non derogatory)
/dev/null as a social media
That brief period of time when Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube were "ok"
Maybe it's just nostalgia
Signal family groups.
I was hoping for a \end{meme} in the text description 😢
Best I can offer is an overfull \hbox
I use Lemmy and like it, but I still have no idea what the fediverse is. Lemmy seems to work fine for me without this knowledge.
Tbh, I don't think federation is a good selling point. It's difficult to explain and understand for a general audience
The good thing about Fediverse is the decentralization.
There's no one Lemmy instance, or Mastodon instance. You could use any server, or even selfhost your own, if you wanted to, and have pretty much the same potential for reach.
That's all anyone needs to know about the Fediverse.
The hard thing is authenticity. Particularly for public figures, celebrities, social media personalities, businesses, etc. People who want or need an online personality that corresponds to their real one. I really don't know what the method is for "proving" yourself on the Fediverse.
For me the issue is privacy.
At any point anyone who wants to train an AI (or something else data-scrapey) they can just get the whole of everything ever posted on Lemmy.
Depends on a few things. Instance admin can rate limit requests. Pretty easy to identify a bot that's scraping traffic.
That's also one thing I try not to worry about. I don't generally say anything online I wouldn't feel comfortable saying on a soapbox in town square (generalized anxiety disorder aside). As a nerdy 90s kid, I learned anything you put on the public internet is public domain unless stated otherwise, and will probably exist forever (if only I could remember any of my GeoCities addresses).
it's not like centralized services in any way prevent this, at best they can make it inconvenient but on the flipside you can be 100% certain they are themselves selling off all your data and doing so with your permission (you did real the TOS right?)
may I ask what typst is then?
Does not exist. No bijection.
And calling something latex after knowing typst is definitely an insult
But...Bluesky is federated, at least in principle. If it stays single-instance for more than a year or so following the current uptick in popularity, then I'll accept that it's de facto not federated.
@remindme@mstdn.social in 1 year
This right here is why federation is so cool.
It's a beautiful thing.
You can also add LaTex code in Word documents.
Memes about the Fediverse
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