Sadly, I think Fedi made the bridge.

What's the symbol on the left?

The Fediverse / ActivityPub. The thing Lemmy is part of, where you're currently in.

Fediverse.

FALSE

Nobody uses Lemmy for anyone to care to ask

Ahhh thanks. I'm still very new to all this.

Ty

Wait where am I? I took a left turn awhile back. Went past some Marxists and Linux users and ended up here.

You're part of a very, very large international polycule.

Fedi is also mastodon, and many others

Like I said, nobody gives a shit about the Fediverse

We do!

We need to remove some of the links from the fediverse logo to show all the defederations

This is factually false.

Provide evidence to show anyone outside of the fediverse is interested in the fediverse and bluesky

I'm really sorry but "We" being you and your mum don't count, that still counts as nobody I'm afraid

@Eyekaytee@aussie.zone You must be a lot of fun at parties!

@cm0002@infosec.pub @aBundleOfFerrets@sh.itjust.works

I'll have you know I'm very fun at parties 🫥

Counterpoint: provide evidence that anyone outside of Reddit is interested in Reddit and Twitter. If they were interested they would be using it

They are?

Reddit has over 1 billion monthly active users (MAU).

Twitter (X) has 557 million monthly active users (MAU).

Lemmy world fediverse clusterfuck has like 7 users

https://fedigraph.fyi/graph/

Looks like about 10% growth compared to last year (15,563,000 -> 17,416,000), so not a huge increase, but still something. Though it is extremely hard to count fedi users. This site has a good explanation of the caveats.

https://fediview.com/articles/fediverse-in-numbers-mastodon-stats-2026/

Welcome and enjoy!

And yet here you are, replying

This looks like growth to you?

I don't know what to say, congrats:

✅ you have eyes

Oh I'm sure! Nothing gets a lively conversation going like ice cold cynicism and negativity.

We're here because we believe in the Fediverse as a valid alternative to big tech social media and all right-wing propaganda that results from it. I try to convince people of that, and hopefully this place will slowly grow. That requires looking at the future, and not to dwell on what's not going perfect right now.

Compared to same time last year; yes.

It's kind of cool to see the Reddit refugee influxes on the graph like that though. Not everyone will stay, but many did.

Ok

Oh I’m sure! Nothing gets a lively conversation going like ice cold cynicism and negativity.

Oh no when I'm actual parties I'm having fun, this place is a hellhole

Sorry, it's my thing. I remove the upvote because I like it starting at 0

Ok!

Sorry I'm gonna exit this convo, have a nice night

"For the purpose of whatever's about to happen next, yes we're friends"

Hi, it's the Marxist you saw! o/ waves as you go past by

Not all of them. Blåhaj excludes all of Threads. I'm not sure about Bluesky or Mastodon, but haven't seen posts from there yet.

Check your instance's instance list to see what you are and aren't linked with. For lemmy instances, it's usually domain/instances, such as https://slrpnk.net/instances for yours.

Looks like slrpnk is linked to the bsky and indieweb bridges at brid.gy

That icon is much more noticeable using the web browser UI, appearing next to every post and every comment (clicking it goes to the home instance where the content came from), though 3rd-party apps substitute that with their own provided experience.

Like iirc Voyager has it upon the app startup but it's grey not colored like this, and I don't typically start Voyager from scratch but rather just pop it back up for as long as possible, so that startup screen is rarely visited.

Lemmy.World and my home instance Discuss.Online both federate with fed.brid.gy, but I've never once seen any content from there and from everything that I read it seems that federation is more or less irrelevant here - necessary but nowhere close to sufficient to make the interconnection happen.

Unlike polished social media that has an incentive to sell ads to more people hence cares that you can scroll forever without wanting to stop, this place leaves it up to you to shape your own experience.

Block people, communities, and even whole entire instances that you don't want to see (the latter is significantly easier using PieFed than Lemmy, plus it adds e.g. keyword filters, anti-AI measures, ability to filter also based on post flairs, etc.).

I've been using Boost for Lemmy

Same as the one on the right:

bluesky (or rather the underlying protocol, ATProto) is not actually decentralized. all public identity keys (signature keys) reside with a single entity (some non-profit organization in switzerland, PLC). if they get hacked, the hackers can forge any identity they want to.

only the messages and media files are stored decentralized, and the user profile personal information (profile picture, bio, etc). but not the crucial signature keys.

thisss 100%

say, are you an obnoxious person intentionally or did you just forget how to communicate?

yes

Thanks!

I hear that was a good one, but never tried it. Maybe I am confusing it with another one (like Connect and/or Sync, though I historically have not cared about 3rd-party apps) but I thought it wasn't being updated for a long time - yet its last update was just last month so not a worry now (if it ever was)!

So it only exists to outsource the costs.

The tankies she told you not to worry about.

A lot of instances exclude Threads, but I think the bridgy is not built by the Bluesky folks, it's built by the community.

I want to like BlueSky but my feeds are either super political or gay. It's totally fine to have gay shit there but a filter would be neat.