That’s very possible! I mean as a user I also do like stability (had to instance hop quite a few times when I joined fediverse due to them shutting down) but also see resiliency and strenght in being able to spin up an instance of a platform we are all familiar with. When people leave reddit they don’t have similar alternatives with many users, but on lemmy/piefed we can always migrate and stay on the same platform with different rules and administrators.

Of course that’s simplifying the whole topic, but I’m not that worried about fediverse. But you are right of course that for new users who are on the edge already this might be a big dealbreaker. That’s why I always suggest bigger instances first. Once you are comfortable with fedi/threadiverse you can migrate to a smaller instance (I did exactly that once I figured out how this all works). I know lemm.ee shutting down probably made a noticable chunk of people give up on fediverse because we didn’t see any instance completely fill the void that lemm.ee’s weekly activity left.

This topic has had a lot of discussion, but backup plans are good indeed. Lemmy.wtf is small though, so I wouldn’t worry about it and I believe Meldrik is coming back :) what happened with feddit.de was tragic. I wonder if they ever found out what happened to the admin.

Just pinged @meldrik@lemmy.wtf on matrix. Seems like he’s been away from lemmy (or just not commenting) for a week.

Edit: was made aware that he’s away right now unfortunately :( hope he returns soon and resolves the issue!

That would be awesome!

Since the page doesn’t have about or info page I’ll add the link to the repo of threadiverse.link: https://github.com/RikudouSage/lemmyverse.link

I thought lemsha.re stopped working - guess not, that’s good news! And such a cool feature by the dev with the voyager link. Haven’t tried that feature out yet (voyager is my personal favourite lemmy app).

Ah must remember wrong or maybe it was proposed!

Yeah the software would need to know, but in a way “lemmy” knows because it knows which instances your instance is federating with. If your instance isn’t federating with the link target it cant find it anyway.

Same as the ! Exclamation mark for communities or @ for users it can do a look up (you can put my link to your search input in lemmy and it will find it), but there would be otherways to achieve this too.

But yeah it would be really nice to have some universal way like the ! And @ signs to point to another fedi post/comment.

No problem, I feel like fedistuff is so scattered and hidden that it’s always worth mentioning your favourite tools :)

The frontends and apps do redirect embedded links in comments no? E.g. if you click this it should automatically use your instance to find the comment (even though its a link to my instance): https://sopuli.xyz/comment/17606535

Or maybe you mean when you paste an url to the browser that it should automatically redirect to your instance? If so thats tad bit difficult. There was once a post that proposed something like a activityPub/lemmy URI scheme where links would look like this:

activitypub://<postorcommentidentifier>

But I don’t remember where that conversation led and also I have no idea how feasible that would be.

Edit: added words

I agree with the other answers here, however if you share the link to another fediuser outside of the platform (e.g matrix) I really like sharing with threadiverse.link.

Edit: an example using your post with threadiverse link (used my local instance to copy the post): https://threadiverse.link/sopuli.xyz/post/29845043

You set your instance once into the cookies and it will always redirect to yours.

First, as others have stated: this is misleading, but that is fine as many maps are misleading and discussion around it is good so people who don’t often look at data or maps get more critical of what they see. An image with data but no sources is to be taken with a grain of salt.

Second (related to the first), where is the source. I could not find this map on US Air Quality Index so I guess its an app that pulls data from there (so they might be interpreting the data wrong or just took a snapshot of a specific datetime or whatever. Also I couldn’t even find data for europe on their website).

I went to reddit and here’s the original post that also lacks the source and the comments are pretty much the same as here.

Still sends a message hopefully and makes it into some news and makes people aware of the issue :)

Ha, nice drawing! You should join us at !sillydrawingrequests@sopuli.xyz

same. Thankfully it wasn’t fathers day in my home country yet!

Wikipedia explains some history of dates that are not on Saint Joseph’s day, but couldn’t find a detailed explanation for every country.

Also found out some wild stuff like:

In France lighter manufacturer Flaminaire introduced the idea of Father’s Day first in 1949 for commercial reasons. Director Marcel Quercia wanted to sell their lighter in France. In 1950, they introduced “la Fête des Pères”, which would take place every third Sunday of June (following the American example). Their slogan is “Nos papas nous l’ont dit, pour la fête des pères, ils désirent tous un Flaminaire” (Our dads told us, for Father’s Day, they all want a Flaminaire). In 1952, the holiday was officially decreed.

Symbolic and actually very cool.

They downloaded threads in hopes of browsing sopuli through threads, of course /s

Thank you!

Extra request: mind locking this lemm.ee community?

The way federation works is that each instance has a “copy” of remote communities, so when lemm.ee goes down every server that federated with lemm.ee will have this community still (cool for keeping the old data available).

The problem with that is that a new user on an “old” instance might find this community (through comment/post search for example), post something, but it will only be seen by other users of the same instance.

You should keep these posts stickied (they will stay stickied even after lemm.ee goes down) and lock the community from user new posts if possible. Up to you though :) thanks again meep!

Yeah sh.itjust.works is also great for this. So far suggestions include:

• lemmy.dbzer0.con
• sh.itjust.works
• sopuli.xyz
• piefed.social

I’m happy with any of those. Hope mods have some free time to work on this before the shutdown.

Dbzer0 is another awesome choice indeed!

Lol love the new username, fitting! :)

Sadly I can’t help with that - I haven’t yet looked at all into piefed. Hope you find people who can help you out!

And I tried that but unfortunately a cool feature of lemmy (soon) and in many lemmy apps is kinda fighting against that: if I link sopuli’s version of it here, you’ll most likely get redirected to your local version of it for convenience (its a nice feature in general).