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I can’t see a way for this to be anything but a Producers situation. Calling it literally anything but Fyre Festival 2 would increase the odds of success, if the event succeeding was ever the plan.

Surely this means Lemmy has finally reached critical mass and we’re slashdotting other sites now. /s

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This doesn’t seem uncontroversial enough to state so definitively. You’re essentially arguing that centralization is a binary state where there is centralization or decentralization and anything between those two points is just “centralization but less”. These types of networks are sometimes split into three groupings, where there’s centralized, decentralized and distributed networks, with the third one being what you describe here. In that understanding, decentralized is the grouping the fediverse falls under.

I have no horse in this fight (I’m from fedia.io which runs on Mbin, a different platform entirely to Lemmy), but lemm.ee seems like a pretty good general-purpose instance to me. Although, switching to that is not really the most useful way to increase decentralization, as they’re currently the #2 Lemmy instance by active users. But every little bit helps.

I think the most important thing to understand about lemm.ee is their policy on defederation. Broadly, they try to avoid using defederation whenever possible, preferring to handle moderation with finer-precision tools. In theory, this might lead to you seeing more things you don’t like, because they don’t defederate some instances which others do, but it also means you interact with a greater number/variety of people.

If your goal is just to “see all of Lemmy”, lemm.ee seems like a pretty good starting place. Of course, you might have more specific desires or needs and prefer to join an instance that is more heavily defederated from instances with content you might object to, etc.

In terms of the Lemmy software staying up to date, you might want to check out FediDB. It can’t really tell you how quick after an update the various instances upgrade their server software, but you can see that a lot of instances haven’t upgraded to the current version yet. The stable right now is 0.19.10, released 3 weeks ago, so anybody who hasn’t updated yet you can probably assume takes … more than three weeks to update.

This one’s not strictly enshittification-related, but I find YouTube Comment Search (Firefox, Chrome) extremely useful. YouTube videos frequently have way more comments than any sensible person is going to read through. By searching for keywords, you can check whether somebody else already said what you were thinking and 👍 that instead of posting another duplicate comment that will get buried forever.

Operation Clippy.

Reddit probably closed down their existing community.

The big headline is understandably that it crashes into a fake painted wall like a cartoon, but that’s not something that most drivers are likely to encounter on the road. The other two comparisons where lidar succeeded and cameras failed were the fog and rain tests, where the Tesla ran over a mannequin that was concealed from standard optical cameras by extreme weather conditions. Human eyes are obviously susceptible to the same conditions, but if the option is there, why not do better than human eyes?

It’s true this is a thing that you can do, but the experience seems pretty degraded vs. just registering an account with a Lemmy/Mbin/PieFed/Sublinks (did I miss any?) instance which is natively configured for the kind of threaded conversations that exist on this segment of the fediverse. The instructions basically amount to “Go to a Lemmy instance and use its interface to find a community you’re interested in, then copy the link to the discussion you want to interact with and paste that into your Mastodon instance’s search bar, then reply to the post that appears. It’s that simple!”

If you only interact with threads occasionally or you just want to try it out from Mastodon, this is workable, but you need a lot of patience for the busywork that’s involved.