Pamasich

There's a great website here. The information you're looking for is at the bottom.

what the primary difference is between Mastadon and Bluesky?

Mastodon is in the fediverse (like Lemmy, which you're using), while Bluesky is not.

It's also way older than Bluesky (2016 vs 2023). So recency bias might have played a role.

It seems like bluesky is gaining much more traction than mastadon ever did, based solely on how I literally hear nothing about it ever. If I am wrong on mastadon not being widely adopted, do tell, I am genuinely asking.

You're not wrong at all there. Mastodon currently only has 886k monthly active users, while Bluesky is in the millions despite its much shorter lifetime.

The fediverse is just unpopular in general. Mastodon is the most popular fediverse platform though, Lemmy has only 48k monthly active users.

Yeah, I did check fedia.io with the intention of mentioning their score there too, but imo the difference between 25584 and 25332 is too miniscule for that.

Huh, I assume that only appears while logged in then. Since I checked your profile on your home instance before writing that comment and didn't see anything (and still don't).

It does indeed seem to not be a thing even on all Lemmy instances, as my lemm.ee account (which runs the same version as lemmy.zip) doesn't have such a number displayed anywhere.

25332

If it is the same as for me it should be the sum of your posts and comments.

Not sure what you mean with "if it is the same as for me", considering you're on Lemmy which doesn't have a feature like this.

But it being the sum of posts and comments is verifiably false. My instance knows of 6 posts and 809 comments of yours. Your home instance reports 17 posts and 2.27k comments. Either way, your karma is 8686, which isn't the sum of either of those.

Lemmy doesn't, but other platforms like Mbin might show your total karma among posts federated with that instance.

The instance I'm on tells me your karma is 462.

Same was the case on /kbin, and while Mbin got rid of the downvotes, it still has public upvotes.

Reputation points: -216

I, uh, can see why. Mbin does show your total karma btw, even for Lemmy users.

I can only see one of those two posts (the second one) and it's pretty well reasoned (I don't agree though, just saying they did provide their reasoning in more than enough words imo). If you're interested, here's the link.

To summarize it:

• UI worse than New Reddit (I personally agree with it being at least just as bad, that's why I didn't go to Lemmy)
• Big instances are laggy (remember, the post is from 7 months ago not today, so don't compare the statement to how they are now)
• Bad mod tools (a common complaint I see about Lemmy)
• Too much far left and tech focus (another common complaint)
• It's not active enough (yet another common complaint)
• Shitty mods (I disagree with the specific claim made about them being worse than Reddit ones, but I've definitely seen at least one shitty mod here so far, and too many are neglectful)
• Lemmy developers are Maoist (fact iirc)
• The community is filled with far left extremists, Mao worshippers, dictator bootlickers, and genocide supporters (the one actually unreasonable take imo which indicates they went to the wrong instance)

This really isn't true. Specific subreddits do, because their mods want to buddy up to the admins. With OP's search settings, I do get one of the posts they got (only one though), and most of the results are drowned out by posts about some guy called Lemmy. But sorting by New, there's plenty of results even from today and the past week. Subreddits announcing their fallback instance, a canadian subreddit discovering lemmy.ca, people asking questions about Lemmy. Lemmy-specific subreddits also show up without a problem. And everything I saw, except for that one post from OP's image, was positive about it.

I think people who have fully left Reddit are falling for confirmation bias when they hear that a post got removed for mentioning Lemmy. While plenty are still up despite doing the same. It's either because of the other contents of the post, or because of the subreddit it was posted in. If it was about promoting Lemmy alone, all posts that promote Lemmy would be gone, which isn't the case.

You can patch the old apps to use your own API key iirc. The API pricing only kicks in when there's too many requests using the same key in a timeframe. Which is easily reached when you've got thousands of devices using the same key, but nearly impossible when people use their own key.