What was your old username? Would be helpful to look you up in the modlogs
Their paid service saw a significant loss in users. Something like 12% before they shut down the counter.
Just switched from Mastodon. The difference in features is insane.
EDIT: I will say I do appreciate the minimalist vibe that mastodon is going for, but I found myself wanting more
Yo just so you know two spirit has nothing to do with furries. It usually refers to gender nonconforming traditions in indigenous american communities and has largely come into favor in Canada as part of recent campaigns to recognize tribal communities and their histories. These movements have obviously existed for a long time but the revelations about atrocities committed at residential schools seems to have really pushed them into the mainstream.
Otherwise, I think you're thinking of "otherkin" who are not generally included under the LGBTQ umbrella, but are frequently brought up to discredit queer progress as a movement.
Found out today PeerTube channels can be understood as a Lemmy community. Try this !veronicaexplains_channel@tilvids.com. Comments are even available from the PeerTube side.
For the past couple of years it's been a lot of news of "Hottest Day Ever" to which my favorite response has always been a slightly cheeky "So far!", but I've realized with the recent coverage of large swaths of the US reaching deadly wet bulb temps that that's going to change. The headlines won't be for the hottest day, they'll be for the highest death count, and nobody will say the second part but we'll all be thinking it.
Just because it's public does not mean they have the rights to sell it. Some over on Mastodon seem to think they likely would lose if it ever went to court (definite illegal in the EU but Threads is delaying launch there) but until then they plan to monetize your interactions.
This is crazy to me. All this time there's been a 20k user instance out there just chilling by itself, and we may all start talking to each other one day.
So that they can be gendered correctly
Important not to conflate your servers downtime with network downtime.
Some interest specific instances that I haven't seen here so far:
slrpnk.net
fanaticus.social
mander.xyz
There's also a brand new currently unfederated instance for legal professionals at links.esq.social