"handrails were deliberately left off to allow the defender to push the attacker off the stairs all together. Also violating all modern building codes, stair treads were sometimes constructed of varying heights to deliberately cause attackers to stumble and fall as they ran up them."

Lemmy's new user retention rate is considerably better than Threads.

I like Lemmy and Mastodon. No ads or manipulative algorithms. Somewhat social and usually polite. Turns out that when you don't automate the incitement of anger and invective in clever ways that people can actually be pretty civil. Whoda thunk?

About time. Well done. More to follow, hopefully.

The BBC just set up their own Mastodon instance: https://social.bbc/@BBC_News_Labs

It's good to see Lemmy getting some love, athough I did get a chuckle at the "this whole fediverse concept is so hard to get your head around" stuff. They are so used to being fed what the algorithm delivers that they are lost without it. It's so touchingly Orwellian.

1. After you log into your own instance, you don't need to remember any other url, so instance urls don't really matter - it's just an address for the instance.
2. Less sought-after domain suffixes are significantly cheaper to register than .com and you can usually get what you want for a prefix (main reason)
3. Lemmy instances are not dot coms by nature so they may as well be something else.

Sounds like it will if Mali decides to take back .ml as Gabon apparently did for .ga. background here https://domainincite.com/28814-millions-of-domains-to-be-deleted-as-freenom-loses-its-first-tld

Of course. Privatization of public utilities, particularly energy generation and distribution systems, is simply a transfer of common wealth to private. Fleecing people who don't understand the arcane pricing structures of "the market" they pretend is operating is just another revenue opportunity.

no you need a domain - if you already have one you can use a subdomain, e.g. lemmy.mydomain.com - then you deploy a server, point the (sub)domain to it, then install and configure lemmy. Then, if you're so inclined, you can create communities on that instance that federated systems can participate in. The content is hosted on your instance but the subscribers are logging in mostly though other instances.

for anyone spending a few days on Lemmy it becomes obvious that stripping off all the advertising, algorithms and gunk attaching itself to online forums makes for a much better user experience.

Meaning you'll see what meta wants you to see. Sounds like same shit, different platform.

No the answer is that it is written in a modern language, is in its infancy and needs a lot of work to be really great, but it's based on a certified protocol ActivityPub, that Mastodon and other "fediverse" systems use. It's going to be really great, eventually.