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When you come to Fishy Joe’s
What they’re made of is a mystery
Where they come from no one knows 🎵

I think it all comes down to why does Meta do anything? Money. And, the timing of their supposed interest in the Fediverse is after the second notable exodus from a major social network. Meta sees more people & more engagement here which equates to more potential profits on their end.

I looked into Mastodon after the whole Twitter thing in November, but I didn’t really use Twitter, so an alternative at the time didn’t make sense for me. However, I was an avid Reddit user for the last nine years, so when these API changes came to light and my app (Sync) was going to cease to exist, well I took the Fediverse alternatives more seriously and realized that ActivityPub is awesome technology that is now invaluable to the internet.

I’m here to stay.

That’s great news. kbin has been a great experience so far and it really has so much potential.

I don’t understand this specific complaint.

If you are subscribed to similar communities that exist on different servers/instances, then the likelihood of someone from each community posting the link is pretty high (especially if it is big news). If you are subscribed to 5/5 gaming communities that exist across lemmy, kbin, beehaw, and others, then yes, you are going to see similar content each time. I don’t see how this is a problem because it seems to be working as intended.

If you’re wanting to be subscribed to each because of the opportunity to engage in the comments with others, then just ignore the repeated content. Coming from Reddit, it was common to see the same post on gaming, pcgaming, & pcmasterrace. There’s always going to be overlap.

I hope it also works for kbin!

Same. Used it since 2014.

Thank you! I’m pretty new to all of this and I was just following what everyone else was doing haha

!thescarydoor is a Futurama subreddit that I am shamelessly self-promoting. I hope that’s okay.

Edit: I don’t know how to link it properly, I guess.