Is this a joke?

I dunno, I was up and running in five minutes. You pick an instance, you sign up, you verify the email, and you’re good to go. What server doesn’t matter much, barring it closing unexpectedly and without warning. There’s not enough users to need more than a handful.

Liftoff recognizes more than just lemmy.world.

Go to the bottom right into profile. Upper right in the profile screen you’ll see a settings gear icon. Tap that, then select accounts.

From there, it should be pretty obvious. But, yeah, it would be nice if liftoff had a front facing accounts section like most of the others do. Great app though!

If you still don’t like it, connect and jerboa are currently the most reliable, with thunder being only a tad behind (but otherwise excellent) with tools g or, it was the last I checked yesterday, and I haven’t seen an update for it).

But, all of those support multiple accounts.

Not that you need multiple accounts. You can access all of lemmy and kbin from a single account. You just have to search for the community within an instance, and it’ll get pulled in if it isn’t already. But you have to search the !community@instance, or http://instance/c/community format if it isn’t already showing.

Community discovery can be a bit of a pain at times, but there’s lemmyexplorer that serves as a good source until lemmy itself has more time to develop

You gotta spread the word.

But, being real, it’s going to be slow. The nature of the beast with lemmy/kbin is that there’s a very long discovery process. So, not only do your have to spread awareness of your c/, you have to have those users be active on a lot of other ones, and feel motivated to share links on yours.

There’s the new communities c/ on lemmy.world (I think? Could be lemmy.ml, my brain is fried rn) though. It’s helped me discovery wise. And you can’t be afraid to do a little self hype. Like, when you find something to post on your magazine, tell/ask the person you’re borrowing from that you did so/want to. Provide a link to that bestof post as well.

Yeah, it’s shameless self promotion, but you won’t have to do it long, assuming the lemmy/kbin world stays steady.

Edit: make sure your link is formatted right for jerboa/app use as well.

::: spoiler test testing

Aha! That got it. Three colons. Spoiler, then the text for the spoiler listing, an enter, n closing `::: and then it works. It doesn’t work without the enter before the spolied text, which is just confusing and annoying imo. The >! Markdown is so much better.

But! You can enter anything after the initial ::: spoiler as the text to show before clicking

It’s working on mobile browser for me, but not on jerboa. Jerboa doesn’t seem to recognize several markdown notations.

that’s a screenshot with the spoiler entry from the little triangle with an ! In it from the entry box

Edit: and the jerboa update didn’t bring full markdown support lol

I’m trying to get what the other guy said to work, please bear with my idiocy

If that is it, then ::: spoiler spoiler WTF? :::

Yeah, I just got one of those too lol.

Depends on the thread. Some things are going to be essentially useless the next day. Others might be in hours, or never reach EOL in terms of there being a point in commenting.

This is the perfect chance to have practiced your chocolate skills by dipping the cookies in chocolate.

I mean, it’s not even a week in yet.

You can, it’ll just be a struggle.

If you stand firm, you can get enough people to recognize that there are viable alternatives, and once you hit a decent number of friends and family, it takes over on its own.

You gotta embrace it.

Federated space is not like reddit in that there is no single domain.

But it is like reddit in that there can be multiple communities covering the same topics within the fediverse, with different moderators, rules, subculture, and focus.

A perfect example from reddit is r/knives and r/knifeclub. They’re the same thing, often with the same users, and very similar rules. But the vibe has always been different. Discussions go a different way nerdiest because the users aren’t exactly the same. Both are wonderful.

Look at it like this, using another knife example because that’s a hobby of mine. Bladeforums exists. Allaboutpocketknives exists. They’re both knife forums. One existing does not mean the other isn’t useful (though you might find arguments about either one lol). Neither of those takes away from r/knives existing. None of those invalidates YouTube knife channels (though most of those are crap tbh).

You’ll also find that none of those places does anything significant in the way of connecting to each other.

That is where the fediverse shines. Everything here is inherently connected once discovered. There’s places to find communities that have already been created. If you go to the “all” tab within your home instance, chances are that you’ll run across them by accident in a similar way to reddit’s r/all.

So, there’s no need to connect communities on different instances by default. If /c/s decide to do so, that’s awesome, but it’s no more necessary then subreddits having a “similar subs” section in their sidebar.

Jerboa is the only actively developed option on Android right now.

That being said, a web wrapper like hermit is nice enough as an interim pick, if jerboa isn’t doing it for you.

Every time I see something like this, I’m reminded of the bathroom scene from fight Club. The listing more than the do not fuck with us part.

Not in the Dick swinging sense of it, but that hunting down and targeting the very people you rely on to function cannot end well.

Reddit has cops and criminals, doctors and fighters, manual labor and execs. Not everyone is going to resist, but the cross section of humanity that does is everywhere.

Spez should actually be very glad that project mayhem isn’t a real thing. He could end up with his nuts sent press release style to a couple of news outlets. He’s the fucking poster boy for the anti capitalist hate brigade at this point.

I’m keeping my eye on you, but only in the hope that you post nudes.

And that is why it’ll never happen

Also, any protest that isn’t disruptive is also ineffective.

Heh. You should have seen the post I did to recruit replacement mods.

But, seriously? A lot of these are copy/pastes. Word for word. And they’re all somehow massively upvoted beyond anything else where they occur.

Like, on the edc sub, an amazing comment might have a thousand upvotes. Some of these “fake” comments had triple or more than that. And, insert surprise face almost none of them had any history in the sub. They’d never commented, never posted, didn’t have the sub in their “commonly used” header.

I suspect a combination of active fuckery on an admin level, active fuckery by user groups using sock puppets, and a tiny fragment of actually upset users. I can directly say that admins ignored the fuck out of the one thing I sent them a report on, which was a death threat. Said it didn’t violate reddit rules. K.

We already know that greedypigboy engages in fuckery like editing shit, and that he’s actively seeking to root out anyone objecting to his fuckery. So, yeah, I 100% believe he’s actively working on some part of this too.

As an example of why there’s some group coordinating shit, the prevalence of “coward” in these copy/pasted rants is unusual. For one thing, it doesn’t fit the actual events, so it points to a deep misunderstanding of the word coward. Then, it gets used so frequently that it boggles the mind that so many people have the same misunderstanding. This points to a small group of idiots running a campaign issuing sock puppets.

Since a decent number of the comments like this looked the same as the typical bot account, with a few months of use, but minimal activity outside of complaints, I’m not sure if I believe any of them are individual users expressing themselves. Those comments have a different feel to them than the copy/paste ones.

I mean, he’s outright said no already. He isn’t interested in doing this.