I kind of see Mastodon as a Twitter replacement and Lemmy as a Reddit replacement. Each has specific use cases. I can see both platforms having value in my online engagement.

This is on my list! Ping me when it’s created. Y’all are a riot, and damned if you don’t keep me honest (and thirsty). I actually had a water filtration system and a separate drinking water faucet put in when we did our kitchen remodel because of this group.

Done! Thank you so much!

While I am on board with the idea, I don’t think it should be a programmatic solution at the community level. Rather, either the third party app or the server (let’s say Beehaw for an example) should allow for the option to create collections based on community identifiers. It would be more of a display function.

The reason I think this needs to be done at the user level is because everyone has their own organization models. At one point, I had all my subreddits aggregated by Library of Congress Categories (since may home library is organized that way). Some people may want to put c/Beatles in a Music category, while others may want Bands or even others by genre.

What would be nice is if the communities had tags to identify their subject matter. For instance, c/Beatles could be #britishinvasion #music #beatles #band #60srock etc. That way people could look by tag and aggregate that way (plus it would make it easier to find c/GeorgeHarrison c/PaulMcCartney c/JohnLennon c/RingoStarr ;-) )

The way I would see this play out is that the user would have to option to create a “Super Community” and give it a name. Then there would be a search by name, tag, subject etc. and the results would have a toggle that would add, or subscribe and add, that community to the super community.

A solution like this would preserve the sovereignty and integrity of each of the servers. All the servers are offering are possible some more discrete identifiers (should they choose) to make themselves more findable. The control is placed on the user to organize and curate their selections.

I don’t mind responding to different communities with similar subjects. I did it all the time on Reddit. But it would be nice to, say, focus on my “Apple” super community or my “Worldbuilding” super community. When you have eclectic interests that span a vast array of topics, being able to aggregate “like topics” is a boon.

IIRC, Apple licensed Codeweaver’s source and is extending it privately. My take is that this code, along with Game Mode is basically “Rosetta” for Windows, optimized for games. That would mean that you would launch a windows game on an M-chip Mac and it would launch without having to kick off an emulation mode. Folks playing FFXIV on Mac would have the feel.

I do think that PC devs will need to do something, I don’t think executables will work. Rather Apple is subsidizing the investment that the consumer and the developer needs to invoke to have a more prolific gaming experience.

Apple is using the source code. Not sure if they just bought it or licensed it. But what this means is that Apple is using the Codeweaver’s source code to build out their own, headless, emulation layer (like Rosetta). This also means that Apple doesn’t have to wait for a third party (which is why it took Square Enix so long to get their FFXIV launcher for M chip Macs) and they can sweeten the code to work with their architecture.

This is pretty impressive, because now we have Apple-flavored “Wine” Third Party bundled Wine (FFXIV) and Crossover as options.

I won’t complain about Lemmings.

1. The game was cute.
2. Lemmings do not commit mass suicide but rather the lemmings that gave rise to this false fact were driven to do so by (ultimately) a CEO looking to create a specific narrative that is at odds with the truth https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/white-wilderness-lemming-suicide/
3. Lemmings are adorably fierce little bastards. https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/running-ponies/when-lemmings-attack-why-carrying-on-like-a-deranged-squeaky-toy-totally-works/

I’ll abide by the consensus. But I do think “lemmings” is a strong contender.

I don’t believe Lemmy’s architecture and structure needs to replace Reddit, or clone it. The appeal and strength of Reddit was in the discrete packets of common interest Reddit offered to the user.

When I first joined Reddit, after the initial confusion, I unsubbed from every subreddit you got by default and slowly added back subreddits of interest. The end result was between 250-279 subreddits, many of which had overlapping subject matter, which was further curated into “mega” subreddits. For me, the only difference between Reddit and Lemmy is that I don’t have to purge a pre-defined set.

I would say the current delta would be the quality of life improvements Reddit has - such as an easier way to locate communities of interest, and a better way to organize multiple communities. And personally, I can see a disconnect if you follow a link “off server” and then can’t join because you’re not logged in there. Lemmy could take a page from Mastodon here, and provide feedback to explain how to add that particular community to yours.

Ultimately, Lemmy doesn’t need to replicate Reddit. It really juts needs more active engagement, and an easier way to identify which subreddits and which communities align, especially amongst the more heavily engaged subreddits. If people can feel like they can pick up on Lemmy where they left off on Reddit, the rest will work itself out.

Reddit is already starting to shut down mobile browser access. They’re doing it in waves.

Not in the least. I have Mastodon for short form brain farts, Cohost for essays (though it seems to be more of a Tumblr replacement these days), and Beehaw/Lemmy for feeding my unending thirst for random tidbits of knowledge. Corporate social media can go pound sand.