Late 90s PC gaming. Even the simple in-game chat systems back in the days in games such as Unreal Tournament, Counter-Strike, Team Fortress and many others helped people meet, socialize, and form communities.

The whole instance has become increasingly strange. I don’t interact with it at all anymore.

A few more:

• Linus Torvalds
• Mark Ruffalo
• Stephen Fry
• Mozilla

Amon Amarth wrote a song telling the tale

Hmm, so far I think I still liked Reddit’s algorithm better. Somehow it always managed to combine top posts from huge communities (news, videos, etc) with small niche interest communities on the same timeline. Hot on Lemmy feels almost like a random selection of posts to me. What people post here is good, but the way it’s selected and sorted doesn’t feel quite as meaningful to me.

A crucial difference between XMPP and ActivityPub is, I think, this:

A messaging protocol or platform like Email or XMPP or Signal is only useful if the people you want to converse with are on it. There’s no other reason to use it. This means you probably need to have some of the people you know personally on it before you want to use it.

However the two main types of ActivityPub apps are microblogging and link sharing. I don’t necessarily need to know anyone on Fedi to enjoy using these platforms. So the likelihood for these platforms to thrive and survive, and the resilience against them being killed by a single large actor defederating or shutting down is much higher.

The open steppe, a fleet horse, falcons at your wrist, and the wind in your hair.