Lemmiversary? I was on the fedi long before I was on lemmy!

Wanna go clubbing?

Lemmy started for me in December 2022. By that point, I’d been on the fediverse for 6 months or so. The Twitter implosion had just happened the month before, and I finally realised how sick of centralised social media I was. Reddit was the only one I was using, though I barely touched it because of the moderation, and so I went looking for alternatives.

I found lemmy.ml, and saw the potential of the concept. A month later, in January 2023 my partner and I were running an instance (we already ran a regular fediverse instance). The lemmy instance was basically just a single person instance. Sign ups were open, but lemmy was quiet back then, so the few people that joined left again. My partner barely used lemmy, so it was basically a single person instance.

And then the reddit implosion happened, and suddenly we found ourselves running a fully fledged lemmy instance, with more users than our “main” instance. And that was really the moment that I got more serious about lemmy too. The increase in community size and engagement transformed the experience.

I’ve never been back to reddit since I left in December 2022, but I didn’t delete my account until 2023 during the reddit exodus.

TIL, Google bought Fitbit

Well, if they had any brains, I imagine they’d behave themselves…

I used exercise to cope with overwhelming gender dysphoria before I was able to transition.

It was incredibly helpful, and I got super fit, but it’s also easy to overdo it, and balancing that can be a challenge when you’re using it as a coping mechanism

This was my approach to things even as a kid. I didn’t care who got the bigger “half” between my brother and I, because I wasn’t going to care once I’d eaten it. All I would remember is that I’d eaten it :)

“The first thing that jumps to your mind isn’t always what you truly think. Sometimes, it’s just what you’ve been trained to think. What matters, is what you do next”

I grew up in a really racist, queerphobic environment, and that comment really helped me by letting me give myself space to undo the bigoted indoctrination I had been taught, without getting trapped in guilt and self disgust whenever one of the racist or bigoted things I was raised with jumped in to my mind.

It let me recognise the bigoted thought as something I was trained to think, rather than being what I actually believe, and by recognising it, I could disempower the thought, and start to unlearn it

Bribery

I start with subscribed sorted by new. After that, I flick over the scaled subscribed, and then I go to scaled all

Right? I don’t care what their intentions are, if they continue to house hate groups, their “intentions” count for exactly nothing

Nope. If anything they see shocks them, a) that’s their problem, not mine and b) serves them right for snooping

I prefer Sharkey, but I’m sure that comes as no surprise :P

I have zero idea how big any city in the US is beyond “big”. I couldn’t begin to rank them by size

This article was the first time I understood that particular way of implementing nomadic identity, and it’s the first time I’ve felt genuinely excited by the idea.

My concern is that with “instanceless” nomadic identity on the fediverse is that ultimately, it would mean that instance would lose their sense of differentiation and community, and would simply be infrastructure instead, and that’s how we we end up with bluesky.

This implementation though is amazing. It lets people actively lean in to community based instances, without having to only pick one, and it gives people protection against loss of any particular instance.

I don’t see why not. And in fact, they would benefit from the whole relay thing, allowing multiple accounts on different instances to be the “same” community

We’re immune to spiders of 3rd level or lower

I generally put them on with my hands and arms rather than my legs

Ack Ack Ack Ack Ank Ank Ankylosaurus

(It would be better if it was actually an ankylosaurus)

Metazooa. It’s not quite a wordle clone, but it’s clearly inspired by the genre

Basically, you have to guess an animal each day, and every time you guess, the game tells you the last branch your guess and the animal have in common on the taxanomic tree

https://metazooa.com