Reddit refugee, RIP Apollo 7/1/2023. I laugh at comedy and love love.

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Can’t take the bait since you didn’t include a link


Feel like maybe it’s better to have a few posts before promoting…there is one post and it’s downvoted to -3.




I subscribed but I see no posts



pixelfed is very appealing I was just a little surprised that the video I had posted elsewhere didn’t work there at all…if the file format and size are concerning I’m hesitant to go all in 🫤


Fediverse equivalent use of TikTok/Instagram/Twitter for short video sharing…need tips on use/platforms/formats
I've been loving Lemmy and mastodon and feel they are coming along as good replacements for Reddit and Twitter. Outside the fediverse, I occasionally enjoy posting *dumb little video shorts* and I put them on **TikTok, Facebook and Insta** because I have friends, family and followers on each. (TikTok, Gen-Z, my daughter...Facebook, Gen-X, my wife...Insta, millennials, my younger sister). I don't browse them heavily myself, but it helps me stay connected and it's fun when something you make goes micro-viral occasionally. I'd love to get more into the habit of sharing on the feddiverse and someday get rid of those others altogether (pipe dream)...so today I had dumb 22 second video of a rabbit, chipmunk and birds all around my birdfeeder. From my iPhone it's a **40 MB mov file**. I put it up on TikTok, Facebook and Insta very easily. Figured I'd put it on...mastodon I guess, and start that habit? Whelp, mastodon allows videos of that sizes but failed to process it 3 times. Next idea...might as well just sign up for pixelfed and use that to put it on mastodon, then use it as an **Instagram replacement**... I sign up and pixelfed doesn't accept the .mov video format...and I believe there is a file size limit of 15MB as well. I don't want to have to resize and reformat every video to post. I could use YouTube or a YouTube alternative (peertube), but I hate the fact that regular video services are trying to make short vertical videos happen on them to compete with TikTok. I hate seeing TikTok style stuff on YouTube and Facebook...it's crappy and out of place. The epitome of enshittification. Any tips or ideas? As far as fediverse platforms, I am **committed to using and growing Lemmy and mastodon** and I think I need to consider a 3rd service that is better for **video/photos**, whether it's *pixelfed, peertube* or *something else*...but at this point I got kind of stuck when I got frustrated with pixelfed and I'm not sure what to try next. I'd prefer not to have to resize and reformat a video just to share it...every time. And I'd prefer not to join something (another one I haven't heard of) that may not be successful. pixelfed seems like it's really exploding...that's why I figured that would be good. Advice?
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Ok we agree I would love to see it as well 😬😂


Personally I am sick of reading that the feddiverse is confusing and never going to take off or never going to do this or that. Even if it’s true, which time will tell. It’s like the same article over and over. I thought your blog was just any other random article like “What is the feddiverse? Well it’s this and it’s cool but it’s overhyped”

Maybe those of us who are trying to make Lemmy, mastodon etc happen are too sensitive about it 🤷🏻‍♂️


Oh shit. lol no I’ll just edit my comment and not say anything rude


Edit: congrats on publishing your blog! It’s cool that your put yourself out there. Hope you have a good night.

(My comment wasn’t nice, didn’t realize op wrote it and now feel embarrassed)


I see one post that is 3 hours old and all the rest are over 6 months old. Any idea why?




What are some of your fav accounts that are fun or interesting?


How do you find (fun & interesting) accounts to to follow on Mastadon?
On Twitter I mostly followed people I knew in real life, comedians, some novelty and parody accounts. I joined Mastadon and I really don’t see anything interesting to me looking at trending posts and what not. It seems very grown up and dry. I miss a little of the “Wild West” aspect of twitter from early 2010’s with offensive humor and cutting satire and just silliness. Any suggestions?
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Seems to work, do you have to choose an instance? When I left it on default it would not work


I am not able to get search-lemmy.com to work at all. It comes up with no results… ?


It tastes somewhere between beef and turkey imo


The difference between Lemmy and Reddit is I believe you


Yep Steve Huffman literally said he didn’t want our dirty 3rd party app loving money so fuck them, let’s help build the feddiverse



Why do I want to listen to this guy? Is it op or someone smart or important?


No one is more shocked that I am that this post got more than six votes lol



I mean everyone here is passionate and involved. There is no parent company to fuck things up or ruin it like google or Reddit. We pay for it ourselves with donations. Why would it die?



True. Those of us on social media at the time moved from MySpace moved because it was a step up as far as keeping in touch with friends, sharing photos and links. It was uncluttered and well designed and no annoying advertising. Just worked. It’s a clusterfuck of awfulness now.


Ha I am actually still friends with people I met on G+ as well. Before Pokémon Go Niantic had a game called Ingress and we organized teams and strategized on Google+ groups and chat. I don’t know how google messed it up honestly with the way everyone with gmail had an account…you could chat and there was audio and video calling that worked pretty well. It was also very clean and modern for the time. Oh well, Alphabet.




Read this in Trevor Noah’s voice and realize I miss Trevor Noah a lot



Mine is $35 and I pay $40 but I’m nearly bald so 🤷🏻‍♂️

If I had more hair I would tip a lot more for a great haircut.


Yeah could be. I have seen some other comments around that lemm.ee had some visibility issues going both ways with other instances.

Still trying to understand how this works in the little details 😬


Sweet. The one I had problems with isn’t super small. It’s got thousands of users. Lemm.ee

But seems like quite a bit of content is missing both ways between other instances.




Thanks I did try this and it seems to have worked for Midwest.social. I appreciate you explaining. I guess I understand some of how this works but some of the ways federation works aren’t clear to me.

If you have a community or post on one instance, do the instances like “crawl” each other or something? How do they eventually catch up?


Communities & posts not viewable from some instances
I registered with some smaller instances in case of server issues and defederation (beehaw) with lemmyworld. I noticed a community [email protected] that I follow from Lemmy.world is not viewable at all on lemm.ee or midwest.social for some reason. It does not come up in search and if I manually go to it’s empty. If I go to my Lemmy.world profile and look at “posts” from lemm.ee or Midwest.social, my post to that community is not there at all. Other Lemmy.ml communities work fine on all 3 instances. Messing around with this type of thing I’ve also noticed that communities have different numbers based on what instance you view them from…the number of posts are different. Some newer or “trending” communities have no posts at all when viewed from Lemmy.world, but they do have posts and subscribers when viewed from another instance. Is this a federation issue, or something stupid I’m doing possibly? A setting or a glitch? I’m worried that depending on the instance I use I will miss out on posts or communities that I don’t even know about. Thanks
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In my 40’s I feel like everything about me is an old person trait.

As a trauma survivor, all of the people I’ve ghosted in my life were toxic and bad for my mental, physical and emotional health and I have no regrets. It’s kind of like the Billy Crystal speech in When Harry Met Sally, except the opposite. When you realize you don’t ever want to see a person again for the rest of your life…you want the rest of your life to start immediately


I’m hoping they will. I subscribed to some beehaw communities that look appealing. I chose Lemmy.world out of convenience and I also appreciate the dude behind it…once things settle it would be sad if they don’t allow any LW people because of a few shitposters.