You cannot interact with microblog folks on Lemmy, unless they actively post something in a Lemmy community by tagging it. So if you want to combine microblogging with threaded discussions Mbin is the only platform that does both. Mbin lists followers publicly.

I think there are Mastodon forks (or configurations) that hide followers from the public though. But it will only ever be half hidden.

It’s useful.

Let’s say you see someone who posts stuff you’re interested in. In a brief moment of absolute brilliance, you think to yourself “aha! Maybe this person follows other people whose content I would be interested in!”

So you check, and sure enough, there’s a bunch of interesting people listed. So you follow them as well. Your social graph grows, you have a better time there, the people you follow get better reach and gets to enjoy pleasant interactions with you. Everybody’s happy.

These social media platforms are designed to be public. If you want to do stuff in secret, do it somewhere else.

That’s fantastic.

It seems clear the English speaking web has a preference for Bluesky. It would be interesting to know how much variation there is between users of other European languages. It seems to me the Germans are pretty active in the Fediverse, which makes sense considering a significant portion of them have been huge privacy nerds since the fall of the GDR.

I just saw this post over at Mastodon, and it seems to be a solid reminder why Victorinox deserves to be represented in this community:

A few weeks ago, I sent my 1985 Swiss Army Knife back to Victorinox for a broken blade replacement.

It came back today, fully repaired, cleaned, polished, lubricated and in a new box.

Total cost: £10 + return postage.

They sent the knife back with an invoice. I didn’t have to pay a penny before the job was done.

A product that’s been out of production for almost 40 years, repaired at very little cost by the original manufacturer.

I’m stunned. Happy, impressed, grateful and stunned.

— @woodpunk@mastodon.online

I’ve only had my Swiss army knife for around half a decade, but I can confirm that they are still amazing.

I mean, I totally believe people who would find the act of milking a cow to be disgusting have no business drinking milk from the supermarket. We need to reflect on where food comes from, and if that changes people’s habits that’s probably a good thing.

In part, I think legislation should play a role here. When buying milk you should be able to know what kind of conditions the cows lived under and what they were fed. I don’t think there’s anything disgusting about cow milk as such. Induatrial farming, on the other hand…

I’m not telling you to shut up. But I am telling you that you’re probably not convincing as many people as you’d wish by telling them that their culture and way of life is “gross”.

Also, some of the best plant based food is totally gross. Fermentation is life.

If everyone made an effort we’d live in a completely different world almost over night. At least as someone who cares about sustainability side of it, that’s what matters. But I appreciate that veganism consists of a bunch of different forms of arguments and motivations.

If you consider this to be the main reason not to eat cheese, you would particularly benefit from keeping it to yourself.

Thanks for not fucking up the planet any faster than you have to, and for being a better person than I am.

I’ve almost given up meat. I don’t see myself ever giving up cheese. But I appreciate you guys and what you’re (not) doing.

Failure to show harm?!

Well, shit, that opens the floodgates for a whole lot of copyright infringement.

Cool.

When could it really?

I know it did, but I feel like we’re just waking up from some 80-year trance where we idiotically thought the US was something we could depend on.

Seems to me most people in that thread seems relatively open minded? The people dismissing Lemmy completely appears to be downvoted, and people seem to have a nuanced understanding that it’s a better platform in theory but sadly less active.

I’m sure they’re right. I’m a slow person who thinks there’s plenty of activity over here, but if you’re used to the adrenaline of Reddit it must feel a little small town-y.

Bingbingbing!

The people still exclusively on Reddit are on Reddit because they don’t like the Fediverse or they’re unwilling to change their habits. Had they liked it and been genuinely open for change they would have made the switch, or at least used both platforms.

This is not so much true for the average user, as they might not be aware of the federated alternatives at all, or they might think it sounds too hard. But it’s absolutely true for the self-hosting community.

Also there are plenty of alternatives. Both PieFed and Mbin are perfectly fine platform with, as far as I know, no tankie developers associated with them.

That would require a lot more of us in the west to stop eating excessive amounts of meat.

The rain forest is not being burnt by popular or political demand, but market demand. They need to produce, primarily, soy beans to feed cattle in American and European farms. We are the demand side of this, and most of us don’t even realize as we criticize the Brazilians for burning their rain forest.

I’m a huge fan of what Lulu is doing here. But he’s up against a force that he cannot fight off on his own: Our consumption.

I’m not vegetarian myself, I just treat meat as a rare treat. Everyone can make an effort to eat less meat; how far they are willing to go I’ll leave for them to decide. But please decide soon, while there’s still some of the Amazon left.

Damn, that’s 100% rye? It holds up really well, impressive gluten structure for a rye bread.

Congrats on getting out of it! Questioning one’s own set of beliefs is not an easy task even for people who genuinely believe they are doing it constantly. Cool stuff.

So when images are attached to comments from Mbin (without markdown), they will finally show up in Lemmy? Is that what this means?

I certainly wouldn’t want new users to randomly end up on .ml because they think it doesn’t matter.

A brief mention of Mbin and Piefed might be nice, and possibly Mastodon alternatives like GoToSocial, Pleroma, and Misskey as well. It highlights that content is software independent, and is a bit more fair to some smaller but nevertheless impressive projects.