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What would Threads be in this analogy, maybe Edge browser?

Always being shoved in your face, an artificially high "user count", but after a while people don't really use it?

Corel word
Threads has much much much more active content than Lemmy.

Edge is also a fantastic browser and has tons of actual users. Most folks I know use it more than chrome these days.
- Edge is based on chrome so you can throw this out
- Might depend on where you are in the world, it's not really the case where I am
  
  Twitter, Bluesky, and Mastodon are most common for that format, and Chrome/Safari for browsers. I see more Firefox than Edge, with the exception being locked down work computers
- I decided to try out Edge when I started my current job and was genuinely impressed and stuck with it. We use Microsoft products heavily so I figured it would only be appropriate to use a Microsoft browser to access them. The built in vertical tab support, multiple profiles, etc. it really does a dang good job which is a pleasant surprise
Predatory journal

Perhaps the Fediverse needs a helpful paperclip like mascot to help with on-boarding.

"Hi, I'm Freddy Verse your friendly guide to the Fediverse, let me help you pick your new home. Please answer these questions:"

What type of service are you looking for?

Micro-blogging
Blogging
Image sharing
Long-form video
Short-form video
Social network
Jack-of-all-trades
Dick pics

Where do you live?

America, fuck yeah!
UK
German speaking countries
France
Australia

What are you interested in?

Books
Films
Gaming
Star Wars
Star Trek
Harry Potter
Porn
Just the dick pics

So long as everyone has to have the Germans in their feed I’m ok with it. Everyone needs to understand what a Stör is.
- Just looked it up - a sturgeon?
My friend is asking what the dick pic instance is.
- I think the first rule of dick pic instance is: don't talk about the dick pic instance.

Are there LaTeX haters? Why?

I'd say anyone who has ever tried to use it hates it a little, even if they also love it
- I remember having my fair share of grievences when I was learning it lol
- Everytime you are forced to actually look at the log and try to understand the error, I hate that. But I love LaTeX still.
I wouldn't say hater, more like "each tool for its job"

LaTeX can be quite cumbersome for certain tasks, same as Word is cumbersome for other tasks. It all depends what the tool is made for, and what you try to use it for.
It has a learning curve and it is better suited for technical work IMO. I wouldn't tell a grandparent to write a letter using LaTeX for example.

I WOULD trust a grandparent to be able to download Mastodon and make an account, but still I think the analogy works nicely lol
Markdown is expressive enough with better syntax.

What's the markdown of social media? Both derogatory and non-derogatory answers accepted

I've got GitHub categorized as social media. Just FYI.
- That's silly. It's obviously a dating platform.
Ok I figured it out actually - it's HackerNews (both derogatory and non-derogatory at the same time)
Screaming into the void (non derogatory)
- /dev/null as a social media
That brief period of time when Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube were "ok"

Maybe it's just nostalgia
Signal family groups.

I was hoping for a \end{meme} in the text description 😢

Best I can offer is an overfull \hbox

I use Lemmy and like it, but I still have no idea what the fediverse is. Lemmy seems to work fine for me without this knowledge.

Tbh, I don't think federation is a good selling point. It's difficult to explain and understand for a general audience

The good thing about Fediverse is the decentralization.

There's no one Lemmy instance, or Mastodon instance. You could use any server, or even selfhost your own, if you wanted to, and have pretty much the same potential for reach.

That's all anyone needs to know about the Fediverse.

The hard thing is authenticity. Particularly for public figures, celebrities, social media personalities, businesses, etc. People who want or need an online personality that corresponds to their real one. I really don't know what the method is for "proving" yourself on the Fediverse.
- For me the issue is privacy.
  
  At any point anyone who wants to train an AI (or something else data-scrapey) they can just get the whole of everything ever posted on Lemmy.
- I really don't know what the method is for "proving" yourself on the Fediverse.
  
  Isn’t it as simple as posting a photo of oneself holding a sign with your username/instance?

may I ask what typst is then?

Does not exist. No bijection.

And calling something latex after knowing typst is definitely an insult

But...Bluesky is federated, at least in principle. If it stays single-instance for more than a year or so following the current uptick in popularity, then I'll accept that it's de facto not federated.

@remindme@mstdn.social in 1 year
- This right here is why federation is so cool.
- @Emperor Ok, I will remind you on Monday Nov 17, 2025 at 9:18 AM PST.
You can also add LaTex code in Word documents.
i feel like being federated in principle is very much equivalent to not being federated in any sense of the word whatsoever at all

they can claim whatever they want, it doesn't make any of it true.
- There's documentation on how to set up your own server for each of the components involved, and there are example servers running. It will take time for an organization to decide to run another major instance, though.
  
  See also https://lemmy.world/comment/13555889