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Connect is great, because you can use it to block posts with certain keywords automatically.

Besides that, wefwef.app is my favorite. You can really tell, that the devs there put a lot of passion into this.

You could make seperate accounts for different topics. Like make one account for memes, one for technology, one for news/politics, one for educational purposes etc etc.

Pretty much every Lemmy app lets you login with multiple accounts at once. Wefwef does that too, if you prefer websites over native apps.

That makes seperating your feeds a more clean experience. That’s how I do it for Youtube example.

If I open Youtube, because I want to listen to music in the background, I don’t want to get distracted by memes, news, vlogs, gaming stuff etc. That’s why I log in with my Music account where I only subscribe to musicians. This gives me a clean feed and the algorithm works in my favor to keep me at the topic at hand.

It’s hard to remember song names, because most EDM tracks are non-lyrical.

For example in dubstep, most trends age poorly.

Skrillex- inspired stuff or “Zomboy - Terror Squad” copycats sound really oversaturated nowadays. Even “hip and cool” commercials made some bootleg versions of “Ruffneck Bass” and “Equinox” from Skrillex.

Also samples and sound design from many EDM tracks 10+ years ago feel really unoriginal from a modern listener’s perspective.

There are obviously also a lot of exeptions. Old stuff from “Tha Trickaz”, “Savant”, “Xilent” etc etc all still hold up imo.

Outside of modern EDM subgenres I think most Eurobeat, old Disco, Techno and House stuff don’t sound as exciting and crazy as they did back then.

My taste in music mostly stayed the same since childhood. I just like more genres now.

I am really into EDM, old EDM songs from popular subgenres oftentimes feel “outdated” in a sense.

For non-EDM enjoyers, its all beeps and boops anyways tho.

Yeah blocking words like reddit, lemmy, fediverse and threads could probably give you more original content.

Blocking political buzzwords would be probably great for mental health reasons.

Google dropping XMPP leading to the death of the protocol is a distortion of truth. Sure it hurted the XMPP federation back then, but this is just one aspect.

For one, XMPP had many competitors since the beginning including other open federated ones like IRC. XMPP was just a new standard with new interesting features. Most people used propietary messenger like AIM back then.

Imo the most critical reason why XMPP did not become mainstream, was because they slept through the early smartphone phase. iOS for a long time had no client compatible with XMPP servers. Smartphones nowadays dominate the global messenger market tho, which made federated XMPP helpless against the rise of WhatsApp, iMessage and so on.

In the desktop space XMPP never really overshadowed IRC significantly. IRC kept all the old tech nerds, while Discord now swallows all the younger nerds. Skype, Microsoft Teams and Zoom took the rest.

XMPP again slept through all of this. Jitsi and Matrix/Element rose up as new open standards because of that as well.

Google Talk was never that big in comparison. Even if Google had kept their XMPP implementation on life support to this day, I would doubt, that federated XMPP would be a big player even then.

Also towards the end, Google Talk had less XMPP extensions then the rest of the XMPP federation. That’s the opposite of “Extend”.

Exactly. The fear-mongering against Threads here on Lemmy is just insane.

People just spread some vague memes about XMPP, EEE, general facebook controversies and misinformation on how ActivityPub really works.

People list so many reasons here about how threads will destroy Lemmy, but most of these are just wrong or misrepresented.

Clarifications of everyone, including the ones by the Mastodon creator himself just get ignored here.

I mean I get it. We are an alt-platform. The mainstream is stinky and scary, but just don’t spread wrong information.

They can get the same information even if defederated. Your profile info is completely public regardless.

Would be funny, if major instances are choosing option 5, making many communities divided and useless, right before Meta announces, that they don’t plan on federating with Lemmy instances. And that Threads will only federate with Tumblr lol

Seriously tho, how will Threads impact Lemmy anyways? They don’t have communities there, right? Their posts will probably not show up here regardless of federated or defederated, if I understand correctly.

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How about Metaverse as a new name?

As long as you point towards the easiest way to join the fediverse first, while only “selling” federation as a feature for power users and people who are genuinely interested, then it doesn’t really matter how complicated the fediverse really is.

If your mom wants you to make her an email account, you don’t explain her how the entire mail system works, along with its history and while reciting a Richard Stallman manifesto about FOSS philosophy. You also don’t send her a link with 100 different email service providers, that all have their own small advantages or disadvantages, while also explaining her how to create her own mail service.

No, you just make her a Gmail account.

I think the official Mastodon app does a great job at simplifying on how to join mastodon. You have a big blue button that lets you join mastodon.social by default, while a smaller grey button is for users, that want another instance. I’m sure you could simplify this even more, but this is a great beginning.

I think cheeseburger.social/c/<community>@vlemmy.com would just be a cached copy in this case. Communities founded on dead instances don’t get updated across instances anymore (maybe I am wrong tho)

I think the admin pyarra mentioned, that they had to restart the server at least once a day, otherwise the RAM would get too full. Maybe they had no time to do that?

Maybe they have faced some kind of mental health crisis, that made them abandon everything? Maybe they faced huge financial problems or the Irish IRS flatlined all his bank accounts? They seemed fine yesterday, so who knows.

It is weird tho, that the vlemmy site still kind of works, even if the connection is extremely slow and unstable.