Yeah. Morning math got me stupid. lol. Edited!

Derp! Thanks!!

It’s scale.

Scale is the enemy of social networks. All of them, including Lemmy.

Let’s say 0.1% of the population are just straight up assholes who ruin everything.

If you only got 100 people on a site, no one is an asshole.

1000 people? Well now you got that asshole Andy in the group. Fucking Andy. But we can deal with him.

But we scale up to 1,000,000? Well now you got 1000 fucking assholes to deal with!

love following you on mastodon and you’ve been a great part of discovery!

lol

shrug

why tho? why is that the name of the platform then?

but like… why tho?

so it’s a “gun rifle”? why in the world would they name a platform after it?

Great. Now we gotta Google what a Karabin Gun is.

we do! Check out #BlackMastodon and any of the queer and trans hashtags. And definitely follow Lisa Melton, she’s the reblog queen and you’ll discover tons of people through her posts and reblogs @lisamelton@mastodon.social

follow more people, yo. You GOTS to follow liberally, click more diverse hashtags and follow them too! My feed is super gay, very POC, and a blast!

As an active person on both (and a mod here), Mastodon is definitely the most active. Yes, you have to follow liberally, dive into reblogs and follow some more, also cruising the Explore/trending section helps but it doesn’t take long to build up a super fun feed. People engage alot, no algorithms, it’s all just live and great.

Lemmy “elegance” isn’t that elegant. I’ve had to work with admins to help break through issues of posts federating around, but it’s getting better. I’m finally getting things going pretty smooth and my community is getting momentum, !AlternativeNation@lemmy.world but it’s been a very slow, buggy, and painful process. One thing that helped was posting to my Lemmy community exclusively through my Mastodon account for a while to help bring people over.

Search is a wash. Mastodon, I can put a link to a post in the search and it pops up, can’t do that here. But Lemmy has better search for just text.

You see? Both are nowhere near perfect, both are flawed, and both are great! They serve very different purposes and don’t compete. They complement each other. I’m super happy we have both and absolutely love building up this community supported DIY fediverse.

Exciting times ahead!

Mastodon is more active but Lemmy is super fun and growing.

Mastodon keeps getting big injections of new users because Musk is a stupid man baby and keeps pushing users away.

Lemmy, post Reddit protests, is now dependent on word of mouth.

Fast. It’s staying asleep that’s the hard part.

Board games.

nope.

first they penalize you, then they freeze your accounts, garnish wages, etc. the IRS will not send you to jail.

You only go to jail if you commit tax evasion or fraud. Which, btw, isn’t very christian.

why do you keep saying “at gun point”. It’s everyone paying their taxes then the that money being used to help the poor and needy.

people don’t give to charity volunteerly enough, wealth inequality has only made the rich richer while 40% of Americans are either poor or on the verge of poor. - remember, even the church demanded tithing (aka taxes).

why aren’t christians demanding more social services, more support, less wealth inequality?

there’s not “gun points”, well except for the gun-loving christians who you better not touch their giant fucking truck.

Not sure if you are being serious. There are levels of socialism and social safety networks that still allow democracy and even capitalism. It’s regulated heavily, wealth is limited, and resources are shared to those who need it.

Bible Jesus fought systemic poverty & for the shunned in society, made it very clear how he felt about the rich & powerful.

It’s mind-boggling to consider neoliberal christianity. It literally goes against everything your god/god’s son fought for… I don’t understand how christians aren’t leading the fight against wealth inequality, systemic poverty, and improved social systems.

“How hard it is for the rich to enter the kingdom of heaven! Indeed, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of heaven.”

“Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.’”

Jesus was a socialist.

WWJD?

Jesus was a socialist.