On the other hand, Lemmy and the fediverse feel alive, despite having fewer users.

I suspect that’s largely because the bots and 2 word jokers (and spammers) haven’t found their way here yet.

The sad truth is: only power users care about 3rd Party Apps and those make up for a very small percentage of the userbase.

Maybe a small percentage of the overall userbase, *but *a huge percentage of the mods (who do most of the janitorial work that keeps the place mostly clean of spam and other miscreants so it’s usable) use those 3rd party apps.

He never said which direction he was going to drain the swamp,though.

Turns out he drained it straight into his cabinet.

Jeff Geerling (on youtube) interviewed Eben a few weeks ago, and he’s confident hat availability should return to normal later this year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_aL9V0JsQQ

Almost the same path for me, except I never bothered with Digg. Just went directly from Fark & /. to Reddit

Now I’m hoping some of the active contributors to my loca subreddit show up here.

I’ve heard in other lemmy communities that the vetting is mostly an attempt at an anti-spammer( and anti-troll) measure.

Decentralisation is a good thing.

Only if the community and information don’t get fragmented into smaller and smaller hard to find places.

Let’s hope they co-operate without trying to score cheap political wins.

Now that’s funny.

what’s the end-game?

Presumably to keep the Conservative base mad at “the woke left”?

At least that appears to be PP’s entire game.

so long as they do so in good faith

Good faith…

This is facebook we’re talking about here.