The architecture is very different.

I don’t know if it was originally a fork, but if it was, you’d hardly realise comparing the code.

It’s kind of like Bluesky’s version of ActivityPub.

Though it’s built quite differently, which comes with some major advantages and disadvantages.

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Knowing a couple of the most active accounts. None of them are teenagers, in all cases middle aged men.

But don’t assume everyone who is very active is a teenagers.

Some of us aren’t ;).

And you don’t have to understand federation to use lemmy. I’ve brought a couple of gen-z ers here. Get them to download voyager. Voyger automatically suggests lemm.ee for account creation. And then you just use it like reddit. Super simple.

If you want to make the community feel non-empty. Make the bot post maximum once every week or two.

Anything more than that and the community will feel empty in another way. Because it’ll just be repetitive posts from a single account with barely any upvotes or comments as far as the eye can see. Like look at communities like [email protected]. The excessive botposting with no upvotes or comments makes it feel basically more empty than anything.

I’m not against bots to populate, but prioritise quality over quantity.

It isn’t with lemmy. The two main solutions is either to use Piefed. Which is a desktop only software that federates with lemmy and has this feature.

Or if on mobile, have a couple different accounts of different instances and use each as a “multireddit”.

Doesn’t work for me. I don’t have “plain” android but a specific type that’s compatible with my eink screen.

Chromium gestures work fine though.

Is there any firefox based browser on android where I can have easy gestures for the arrow buttons? All the firefox versions I can find require me to do this in two clicks which for the way I browse is a pain in the arse. Can I fix this somehow?

TIL Gizmodo is now owned by a european (Swiss-French) company: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/04/business/media/gizmodo-sold-keleops.html