shoutout https://moist.catsweat.com

the simple reason is geographic isolation of populations. over time groups of people in different places gain minute genetic differences relating to their region/breeding population.

its geography + genetic drift

and no subreddits! i was there too! it really started gaining traction and losing technical users when the ‘image macros’ started… memes took over

sure. it took reddit 20 years to get to its size.

the lack of physical books certainly came true

theres a manual fix for this. in mbin, when you attach the image in a post and save, it is uploaded and shown. you can then grab the image link (right click image, copy link), edit the post, and add the link using the image tag, and save, it then shows in-line in lemmy.

yeah, it sucks but at least it works until this is implemented. ive been usin this method for over a year now…

i didnt come across lemmy, specifically. i wanted to build a public reddit clone, and found ‘kbin’, which federated both microblog (mastodon/universodeon/threads) and threaded forums (lemmy)… so i built that. kbin has since died, but was resurrected in a fork named mbin.

so im not technically on lemmy, but our instance fully federates with it.

ive been actively recruiting users from reddit who dont like swimming in bot farms talkin to eachother.

prolly should have spent more time on that than marketing an unfinished ‘product’'. its kind of telling also that it works in an app better than a simple web api. im betting this shits not going to scale well.

me too. apps are for children.

wtf is the point of federation if it doesnt work on the systems its federating to like the boatload of browser-based systems??

its what a pirate shouts when you kick him in the crotch

a rogue planet hitting this one would. i would expect a space faring race to want to move not only to the outskirts of the solar system, but possible attempt venturing to a new one. perhaps multiples.

but go ahead, keep thinking small for some reason. technology never advances dontcha know.

Oh no, how will the universe ever recover from this tragedy?

yep, this is what people resort to when they dont have a real point. ‘so what?!’ pfft

huh? why do people have this innate ability to underestimate what we might be capable of? why do you think its impossible for us to become masters of our own genome?

not getting off this rock means our species is doomed regardless of how ‘perfect’ we keep earth.

youre still not thinking astronomically. you need to think bigger. i like to at least pretend out technology advances.

our planet could easily be wiped by a number of things. if we dont plan for a planetary catastrophe out of our control, our species is doomed.

i think you underestimate human ingenuity and the time frames involved.

yes.

if we want to become a true space faring species resilient to all that the universe can throw at us we will need both

i know that even then the shielding would prevent that wavelength… but another part of me would be terrified of a refrigerator sized microwave built in the 60s

they say that the sense of ‘deja-vu’ you get is your brain incorrectly writing ‘timestamps’ relating to memories. so, theres a valid scientific reason why we get those feelings.

sounds like an issue with your local instance. federation seems to work, as you imply the post shows in the remote community.

i have seen that behavior before with database/process issues causing the local post not to show despite it being successfully sent to the remote.