At a certain point, developers need to ignore the HOA.

It’s so funny. If Trump shut the hell up for at least a year, he would have had a Canadian government that was completely pliable to his demands. But he had to yap, and now Poilievre is no shoe-in.

Quote posting is already available on Misskey, Friendica, and Akkoma.

Threads also has that feature, and they use the same standard as Misskey.

Even Mastodon clients like Icecubes and Phanpy do quite posting.

At this point, it makes no sense to wait on Mastodon to implement features.

See you're trying to mince words here but the point indeed does stand because microblog and community based engagement are wildly different from each other, and have wildly different expectations and stipulations.

I run an Akkoma server, which is a fork of Pleroma -- and I use a custom front end. I do not run it as a microblog but as a blog.

Using the power of Markdown, my posts have headings, bullet points, and emphasis.

And more importantly, I'm not limited to 500 characters.

I also have a Friendica account. Friendica is not a microblog but a Facebook-style macroblog. Just like Lemmy, it supports groups. It also supports galleries, events, and personal notes. It is not a microblog.

There is also Misskey. It has all those things but also cloud storage too.

I'm not mincing words. These are all services that have significantly diverged from Twitter-style microblogs to become something distinct and different. Many of these services have group functionality just like Lemmy. Hell, groups are on the road map for Mastodon -- but Mastodon development is super slow, so some people on Mastodon use guppe as a bolt-on feature (not intuitive at all).

The only thing that sets Lemmy, Mbin, and Piefed apart is that they're decidedly more Reddit-like than other services.

I don't really know how relevant that is considering that the competing platforms aren't federated to us.

What competing platforms are you talking about?

I never tried to say or imply it wasn't an option, because it is, but for big servers that contain more of the pie it's a bad idea.

And my point is, not necessarily. A server that proves toxic, no matter its size, eventually becomes defederated.

Personally, I don't think lemmy.world is in danger of this at the moment. Ruud seems to be an upstanding guy. I don't think he'll go the way of lemmy.ml. But still, I never take anything for granted.

The Fediverse absolutely is a platform whether you like it or not, a decentralized platform but a platform nonetheless.

A "platform" implies that a singular entity runs things, and they have final say on what is or is not allowable. This is not the case with the Fediverse. I can built whatever want with it, set up a server as I wish, with a wildly different UI/UX.

Now it really seems like you are misrepresenting my words here, trying to spin me as some anti-defederation troll. When the reality is I said that defederation of large servers and large communities has consequences.

Of course it has consequences. Nobody is arguing that. But in the context of the original post ("I don't like that a moderator uses lemmy.world, and I find that intolerable"), what's reasonable is defederation.

Okay, for context, this means that Lemmy has gained 4.4K MAUs over last month.

Not bad.

Hey, where are you getting these stats from? I ask because FediDB is down.

Here’s the link:

https://atomicpoet.org/@atomicpoet/posts/Ar1k52vf54XylLFsJM

To answer your question, Bookface is an alternative—and better—UI for Friendica. And Friendica is essentially a federated alternative to Facebook.

You don't need to wait on Mastodon to do it.

Obviously, I'm not talking about you specifically -- Threadiverse devs generally.

For example, some of this functionality already exists on Friendica.

Right now, you can crosspost to a Friendica group by mentioning the group actor handle (ex: @fediversenews@venera.social. And because Friendica supports quoted boosts, you can boost to a Friendica group through this method.

Lemmy could easily support this feature.

I'm not suggesting that you sell your DIY GOG package to someone else. I'm suggesting you do that for yourself.

It really would be so much easier to just boost Mastodon posts into a Lemmy community.

On every retrogaming forum I’ve ever been on, this has been a topic and it’s been a topic for at least 15 years. A few practical bits of advice:

1. The cheapest games will always be last generations games
2. Anything not deemed “retro” yet is cheap
3. Nintendo is always super expensive unless it’s Wii or handheld
4. Anything Xbox is cheap
5. PC is cheap, unless it’s big box, but even then sellers will sell big box for cheap because they often don’t know what they have
6. There’s nothing wrong with buying from GOG, burning to disc, and making your own labels and box art—which is easy to do because it’s DRM-free
7. Except for PS1, Sony is cheap. But even then PS1 is cheaper than N64 or Saturn.
8. Nothing wrong with an Everdrive, especially since that’s the best way to play aftermarket games