It feels like the early days of the internet!!!!

Did you really... forget the beans already??
- Beans? I was here for strategies on how not to poop for three days
- damn that was annoying for a few days
  
  You're in memes. What did you expect?
- That was last week, beans are dead old man, get over it already.
- hey don’t act like its a bad thing, i was getting tired of my home page being beans and only beans
  
  Yeah me as well, it went on for way too long IMO. It was funny the first day or so, but afterwards... not so much.
- Ok, I must ask, what are beans?
  
  Legumes
- And not pooping
- That's not meta, that's just a meme

"Can we have something like multireddits please"
"Can someone explain how the Fediverse works"
"I'm making a new Lemmy app"
"I can't wait for [x] to make a Lemmy app"
"Wtf is a tankie"
"Rule"
"[A meme about being trans]"
"[A meme about being neuro-atypical]"
"[A meme you have seen reposted a dozen times elsewhere]"
"I miss Apollo"
PS, I dont mean this in a bad way. I love Lemmy and it is hugely encouraging to see so many people use it. I'm just poking fun at trends I'm seeing emerge.
- Fucking Beans.
  
  I am confident that beans will be less cringy than bacon and narwals when we look back on this time.
- Ha! Last night when I wanted to look at some NSFW content I was thinking to myself. Man, I wish we had multi-reddits.
  
  You pretty much need a separate account for NSFW stuff because the major instances seem to be defederating with the ones that have porn.
  If you're using Jerboa, you add multiple accounts to it and switch between them in the hamburger menu.
  
  What exactly is a multi Reddit? Used to use Reddit before this and have never used one to my knowledge
- The journey is not about the destination. It’s the trends we make along the way.
- For the record, most of us prefer the term Neurodivergent.
  
  Sorry, yes I couldnt think of the word.
  
  I don't think I've ever heard anyone call it neuro-atypical before
- The beauty of lemmy is that it is open source. Anyone knowing a bit of rust and/or typescript can contribute. I'm sure multilemmies will be implemented sooner rather than later.
  Though, although rust is a beloved language, it's hard to get into. A backend in typescript or python would attract a lot more developers just based on the fact that these are higher level languages. Performance would take too much of a hit though.

You forgot "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish" Literally every thread about Meta or reddit.
- Embrace, Extend, Extinguish, Enshittify

The new one is are we defererating from Threads.
Not in ML of course, but the discussion goes on on other instances.

Should we/let's defederate with X?
- I think we should federate with Heinz and their beans
  
  This is amazing
  
  Wait? We haven't already?
  
  Ugh must we? I'd rather federate with Bush's beans...
- Correction: "Please tell me we are going to"
  
  Second correction: "I speak on behalf of everyone here when I say we absolutely must, please have it done by tomorrow morning thanks."

Plenty of tropes available to fill up the card:
Lemmy is becoming reddit, reeeeee!
Elon Musk Hate.
Are we still doing X?
My breakup letter to reddit.
Repost ancient memes as if its new and clever.
- The ancient memes are great though. Like be honest, you laughed at the stupid 2001 meme
  
  +++ Goldfish memory here, actually have zero issue with the vintage meming.
- Don't forget "Lemmy feels higher quality than reddit" followed by several hot posts that are compressed and re-reposted memes with pixel densities low enough to count.
  And the "I'm glad Lemmy doesn't have the reddit hivemind" followed by posts with whole threads of comments straight out of reddit "AmericaBad" thought train.
  Pretty much, all of these things can be summed up by "suddenly acting better than reddit while acting identically", I guess.
- The reposting memes and not making their own is just fucking annoying.

And "How do I block an entire instance"
- Please 🙏
  
  Connect and Voyager (formerly wefwef) both support this now.

“Everyone here is so much nicer than on
<insert massively popular mainstream platform here>
”
- Doing my best to change that :)
  
  Have you met Biggus_Dickus yet?
  
  Obligatory "username checks out"! You're welcome.
  
  Me too :)
  Fucker
- Which honestly became not true pretty much right away - any post about anything remotely controversial or political has just as much toxicity as reddit did imo
  
  Yeah, it’s almost as if it’s people who were the problem all along 😀

Maybe I'm just older and have been on the internet longer, but it doesn't feel as much like the "early days" as it does feel like when I first came to Reddit after Digg died (without ever having been a Digg user; it just was a coincidence that I discovered Reddit because of the hubbub).
I've been online since 1990 tho. I was literally there for the beginning of the "World Wide Web." The true Wild West of the internet.
- Back before music piracy was a thing; because who's going to download a 3-4MB file on a 14k4 modem? By the time you grab one song you'd have racked up such an internet bill you might as well have bought the single.
  
  I remember spending all day downloading files from a Quake server because I happened upon a server running Team Fortress and had to download the mod. On a 28.8k dial-up modem. It was like 500MB or something.
  Then of course when I get into the game, it's on ctf_crosstheborder and was the most confusing thing I had ever encountered.
  
  The days of overclocking your CPU so that your pr0n would load faster TT__TT and we used emojis like that. Those were dark days, but people learned a lot about CPU cooling.
- Right? I am having trouble seeing similarities.
- Do you even telnet?
  
  Gopher 🥳
- Yeah, more like that early Wild West pioneering feeling of the early days of the internet, this feels more like a bunch of tourists moving from their previous fully equipped hotel because of a shitty management to some new hotel which is still partly under construction and everyone, including the management, are still trying to figure out where everything belongs.

well actually this is well documented on GitHub
Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using an URL instead of its name
if you were around when Digg...
lemming
Lenny
Margot Robbie
GDPR
security incidents
- Two wolves
- Margot Robbie?
  
  Academy Award nominated character actress @MargotRobbie@lemmy.world!

I admit I haven't figured out where all the porn is hiding.
- lemmynsfw.com, your instance may have defederated with it. Supposedly many are because they don't want it on their server.
  
  I feel like this is a major oversight to how lemmy works. I feel like instances should be able to maintain overall federation, but 'disable' another instance by default, so that it's virtually invisible unless a user turns it on themselves. NSFW tag is way too broad, it encompasses so much more than porn
  
  I asked. They claim they did not and I verified that the show NSFW box is unchecked.
- waiting for some legend to respond...
  
  There you go: https://lemmynsfw.com/
  ..I swear I only know it for hearsay!
- lemmynsfw.com and pornlemmy.com. someone also pointed out booty.world, but it's currently not working.

How are you forget about the glorious beans!!
Handsome Beanward would have your head if he wasn’t a warm and beany ruler.
50 lashes in the bean dungeon for you!
- Dickbutt but made of beans
  
  Was aiming for Handsome Squidward and a beans love child but I’ll accept Beanbutt any day.
- This is horrifying and I love it.
  
  Thank you!! 😁🫘

Lemmy devs are/aren't tankies
What does the ml stand for in lemmy.ml? I don't think the instance is based out of Mali...
- My brain jumped to "machine learning" initially. I never considered the alternative until explicitly pointed out.
- How familiar are you with TLDs?
  
  Yes, I'm aware. My point is why did they pick .ml, specifically?
- Marxism-Leninism
  
  Source? Or just a haha funny?
- Mali, one of the cheaper TLDs
  
  Also know for having one of the highest malware count for a TLD. I migrated from it a few years ago because of that.
- huh... i thought it stood for mainline cus its thr instance the main devs run

Also, asking Lemmy support questions in asklemmy

‘Use a smaller instance, cause .world is overloaded!’
- Also .ml , .ee and .one

Where is "Petition to defederate from X because Y?"

How dare you make a meta meme about Lemmy without mentioning the beans or the 3 days no poop challenge!
- So we eat beans and try not to poop for 3 days then? Just to save one space on the bingo card, y'know
  
  Well yeah, you didn't get the memo ?

You forgot the self-refferential meta bingo post.
- Here, I fixed it for you:

New apps every week! lol

The free space in the middle can just be "BEANS"

Jerboa's last update fixed alot for me. It is pretty annoying to open the app and see a bunch of post about lemmy. Kind of like opening Minds and half the posts are people circle-jerking to the fact that they are on Minds. Like, cool, I'm here too.. now why am I here? Post something interesting.

While we are at it, why do I see 2-3 year old posts in my stream?

I am glad that i realised I could just block the tankies instead of arguing with them
- I've yet to see a single tankie here, but I think the instance I'm on has defederated from a bunch of instances so that might be why
  
  https://lemm.ee/instances
  Nope, not blocked. There's not actually that many of them, but they were one of the few established communities on Lemmy before the reddit explosion so I think they were disproportionately visible until everyone else started organically out-posting them.
  
  Hi 👋 Nice to meet you. Welcome to Lemmy
  
  I wish I personally could defederate from an instance while still using an account on a lemmy server. I've blocked at least a dozen communities from lemmygrad that showed up on my frontpage.

My only question is if they’re tankies then why even leave Reddit? That’s like a stoner moving to a state where weeds legal then leaving because there’s too much weed.
- Because free software aligns with leftist ideals?
  
  Leftists aren’t tankies. Tankies are specifically pro USSR.
  A pro authoritarian state. That’s why they are called tankies after all lol.
  
  I disagree...
- I dont even know what tankies want. Or where they live.
  
  Not sure if that was a joke or a sincere lack of familiarity. What tankies want is a restoration and supremacy of the USSR to spread what they called communism.
- Tankies are pro-authoritarian but not pro-corporate.
  Lemmy's creators were part of a community that got banned IIRC (ChapoTrapHouse)

“How do I swipe left on swiping”
I’m guilty of that…

lol although enshittification doesn't really apply to Lemmy, so it isn't meta
- I believe they are taking about the meta discussions, where I have seen this term frequently.
  Of course, it is used in the context of Lemmy’s peers and not Lemmy itself.

Dude my card was full on my first day of Lemmy lol.

Blackout.

And here i am just posting stolen memes and pictures of life like a sucker

Funny, my first post was "The beauty of the Fediverse"

Wait is Jerboa crap or something? I would switch but no one has given me a good reason to
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- I think it's quite alright for an alpha. Pretty modern codebase too, if I'm not mistaken
- There's Thunder (slick UI), Liftoff (best if you have multiple accounts), and connect (customizable). They are all pretty different so I'd just look at each of them and see what works for you.
  
  I just installed Liftoff, and for an early access app, it's pretty decent

Posting that article on "how to destroy a decentralized network" in the comments, over and over
- Well as long as there's still people who think that federating with Threads wouldn't be disastrous, people are going to have to post things that explains why it would and presumably that specific one is a good one 🤷
  
  Those of us who don't think it would be disastrous have read the article.