or maybe we acknowledge these issues and browse lemmy for entertainment and getting away from the stresses of daily life rather than be constantly reminded of it and roped into repetitive discussions that are preaching to the choir

err, what I meant was we need to burn down the system

It's a known issue with Lemmy, it should be fixed by next release.

And we're about to see a lot more in the following days

You should probably answer those Discord notifications lol

Executives are really obsessed with making every platform copy every other platform. When Facebook added reactions suddenly every social media had to have them. When TikTok took off suddenly every social media needed to copy it (ie YouTube Shorts, Facebook Stories). Now this...

Adding to what the other guy said, you can think of Lemmy as a collection of servers. Right now you're on lemmy.ml, but some people are on https://beehaw.org/ for example. Beehaw is also Lemmy, but it's a different server with different users and communities.

Here's what makes the Fediverse cool though. You don't need to go there to interact with them. You can stay on lemmy.ml and access and comment on Beehaw. When you're on the home page it defaults to "Local", but if you click on "All" you can see posts from different servers. Same thing when you click on "Communities" at the top. It lets you browse communities on different servers by clicking "All".

Let's say you wanted to browse the gaming community on Beehaw. You can write "gaming" in the search field and find gaming@beehaw.org, or you can just type it into your search bar as https://lemmy.ml/c/gaming@beehaw.org

Now you can browse, comment, vote, and interact with that community. I posted this comment from https://kbin.social/ , which is NOT Lemmy, but since the Fediverse is connected we can basically interact with each other from different websites.

I legitimately don't understand what they're hoping to gain from the AMA. Unless spez is going to start with "We were wrong, we're rolling back the changes" then there's nothing to be said. They ran over 3rd party apps that millions of their users use for no reason. This will be a total disaster.

These stories are always wild to me. Who keeps giving unrestricted access for their credit card to children?

I never really liked Twitter as a concept. It feels like it's built on an "old man yells at cloud" concept where people just shout their thoughts and nobody gains anything from it.

By comparison forums are there to foster discussions and communities. I thought Mastodon would be better but I spent 5 minutes and it's exactly the same nonsense.