After digging into it, we banned the two sh.itjust.works accounts mentioned in this post. A quick search of the database did not reveal any similar accounts, though that doesn’t mean they aren’t there.

Mastodon will still be the biggest fediverse service. It will remain a niche player in the microblog world, as Bluesky gradually becomes the big player by stealing users from the platform formerly known as Twitter.

The rest of the federverse will (hopefully) coalesce around fewer projects. Development is massively fragmented right now. I’m very curious to see which projects flourish, and which projects die.

I do not expect the federverse to unseat large corporate social media and become home to the masses. And I’m okay with that.

I wondered if the Turbo button on the computer really did anything.

Fantastic resource!

That’s what happens after the apartment clearing is done.

John Wayne was a turd who vocally supported Joseph McCarthy and Richard Nixon.

Spider-Man is based.

Gay beer is great.

I’m not seeing the downside here?

It’s all about conservation of energy.

In your satellite scenario, the sum of kinetic and potential energy must remain fixed. This means higher orbits are slower orbits. In fact this is observable in man-made satellites that are moved to higher or lower orbits. There is no free ride.

In the “heat death” of the universe scenario, the total amount of energy in the universe is conserved (it is finite) but the volume of the universe keeps growing. On a long enough time scale the universe’s average energy per unit volume approaches zero.

Also lotide, if you’re into a minimalist text-only interface.

For a FOSS but not federated option there’s Discuit.

Ace Ventura: Pet Detective

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0109040/

Yeah, I started thinking about that right after I posted this GIF. I forgot about Ace’s overboard reaction. The '90s humor hasn’t aged well.

@The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world is a meme god.

@PugJesus@lemmy.world keeps history alive and the Confederacy in check.

@anon6789@lemmy.world is our resident owl afficionado.

There are many others, of course, but I seem to notice these three a lot in my Subscribed feed.

Have you… have you never felt the joy of holding a great stick?

I see no repentance in those eyes.

Geez, by that logic there should be a public vote on all roster changes, too.

We could have some fun with this.

The Atlanta Confederates: Whites-only team, but by league rule they lose every game they play. It’s a matter of pride in their heritage.

The Boston Puritans: No alcohol or swearing allowed in the ballpark, all games must end before dark, and they never play on Sundays.

The San Francisco Ferries (already done in the movie Baseketball).

The New Jersey Hitmen: The team’s mascot embodies all the worst Italian-American stereotypes you can imagine.

The Florida Men: The most, uh, interesting mascot in the league. Maybe don’t take your kids to the game.

The Washington Redskins finally changed their name, and all my conservative relatives were like “What a bunch of ridiculous woke bullshit!” Really, guys? You don’t understand why that might not be the best name?

Instead of one central Reddit, imagine hundreds of mini-Reddits each with their own users, communities, rules, culture, etc. Now connect them all together so the users on each mini-Reddit can read/post/comment on any of the others. That basically how this works; each Lemmy instance is a mini-Reddit in a sea of peers.

There are so many politics communities, but before you mentioned this I didn’t realize how concentrated they are on .ml and .world. These look like the most-subscribed USA and World politics communities that aren’t on .ml or .world:

!politics@hexbear.net
!politics@beehaw.org
!usa@midwest.social
!worldpolitics@lemmy.ca
!geopolitics@lemmy.run
!politics@sh.itjust.works

[Edit: Though I listed them here, the hexbear and beehaw communities are not accessible to large swaths of the Lemmy user base due to instance defederations.]