This is too quick of a movement towards defederation. Except in the most extreme of circumstances, it should be up to individual users whether they want to engage with other communities, and users can always block communities they find objectionable. It is not in the best interest of users to treat them as being incapable of making their own reasoned decisions about this kind of thing.

Fortunately, thanks to the wonders of the fediverse, I can just make a new account on a different instance and start engaging with Lemmy that way. Anyone have any recommendations on alternatives to lemmy.world?

Fuckers

Zero percent chance this isn’t a cover to launch something more predatory for monetization reasons.

I don’t have fun at all - when I work out just to “work out,” anyway. Then I have to think about it sort of like physical medicine. I do it cause it’s good for me.

But if I can find a way to get the heart pumping that’s primarily about doing an activity, with fitness just being secondary, I have a lot more fun. I recently got into boxing for fitness because kneee trouble was making high-impact cardio painful. Love it. Training becomes something to look forward to because boxing is fun rather than metaphorical castor oil that I swallow down because I need to.

This is like a whole thing with people looking for more environmentally friendly ways to ship stuff - tho rn it looks more like a hobby for rich people hauling their bougie wine and chocolate or whatever. I for one think that having sailing ships come back with modern features would be cool!

https://designedconscious.com/plastics-in-the-ocean/sustainability-news-stories/sailing-ships-hauling-cargo-in-2021/amp/

I love Lemmy, but as others have already said, the vast majority of these signups are likely bots. Pretty spooky.

Another thought: making a community can also be a nice structured incentive to check in on your hobby regularly. I like looking for videos or articles to link to for my yugioh community even though there’s not many people subscribed - it gives me an opportunity to interact with and think about the game in different ways than I normally do.

Smh imagine not being a chad Pepsi enjoyer

Oh boy 29999 friends that I can be obnoxious towards on main

These guys fucking suck, no doubt, but I really prefer that we put the impetus on users to block communities they don’t like rather than pursue total defederation

I’m not 100% sure, but I don’t think so

Completely agree with this. I can block anything I don’t want to see, and I’d rather not have someone else decide that for me

Exciting! Auto trains would be a big deal for the system

I like “cliffs” on the theory that users are called lemmings, so the communities are the cliffs we choose to run off together

The death of Apollo is literally why I’m starting to look at online spaces other than Reddit as my go-to

I unfortunately think 1 is the most likely, at least for now. A one-time disruption won’t be enough to sink Reddit. What could permanently change things is the sustained build-up of viable alternatives over time. So I guess you can look at the blackout stuff not as the end for Reddit, but maybe the canary in the coal mine for a gradual descent.

Yes! Exactly that

Hoping a few people into yugioh make the jump. They had their faults, but the yugioh subs were a good place to talk about the game and get news.

I’ve set up a community on here - please feel free to stop by and check it out!

Very satisfying to see that graph go vertical starting in June lol

Whoa, I downloaded it and this is way better than using the browser on my phone