atomicpoet

These are Mastodon server

Nope, only one server I mentioned is a Mastodon server.

Now you seem to think that defederation of lemmy.ml is a big gotcha though they aren't actually very large all instances considered

Actually, lemmy.world is not that big all things considered. It’s big for Lemmy, sure. But Lemmy isn’t that big at all.

Enter Beehaw.org. They defederated lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works back in 2023 during the first Reddit Migration.

Beehaw.org didn’t lose influence because they defederate the bigger servers. They lost influence because they took a heavy-handed approach to things. But if that’s how they want to run things—fine. No one owes anyone else federation.

This is kind of a stupid argument because if platforms or communities don't have any people in them creating content or replying, or voting, they don't really function at all as a social platform.

This is not a “platform”. It’s a software distribution for an open protocol. And how people choose to use that protocol is up to them.

If you want to federate with everyone, that’s fine. If you don’t, that’s fine too. No one is putting a gun to your head and telling you who or what to associate with.

But the fact is, defederation is an option. It’s always an option.

The fact is that in the fediverse any server that has a significant IS to big to block, else userbase and interaction will suffer.

The second biggest Mastodon server is near universally defederated.

The biggest Pleroma server is also universally defederated.

You probably don’t know what these servers are, and that’s a good thing because the actual fact is defederating them improves the user experience for everyone else.

To say this isn't the case is to spread misinformation, as people who follow such advice will notice they have a much poorer Fediverse experience.

Until July 2023, the biggest Lemmy server was lemmy.ml. It has now found itself defederated by many servers. If lemmy.ml was too big to defederate, how did it find itself defederated?

The myth of “big server = undefederatable”—that is misinformation. Big servers find themselves defederated all the time. See also: Gab.

Here’s the link:

https://atomicpoet.org/@atomicpoet/posts/Ar1k52vf54XylLFsJM

To answer your question, Bookface is an alternative—and better—UI for Friendica. And Friendica is essentially a federated alternative to Facebook.

You don't need to wait on Mastodon to do it.

Obviously, I'm not talking about you specifically -- Threadiverse devs generally.

For example, some of this functionality already exists on Friendica.

Right now, you can crosspost to a Friendica group by mentioning the group actor handle (ex: @fediversenews@venera.social. And because Friendica supports quoted boosts, you can boost to a Friendica group through this method.

Lemmy could easily support this feature.

I'm not suggesting that you sell your DIY GOG package to someone else. I'm suggesting you do that for yourself.

It really would be so much easier to just boost Mastodon posts into a Lemmy community.

On every retrogaming forum I’ve ever been on, this has been a topic and it’s been a topic for at least 15 years. A few practical bits of advice:

1. The cheapest games will always be last generations games
2. Anything not deemed “retro” yet is cheap
3. Nintendo is always super expensive unless it’s Wii or handheld
4. Anything Xbox is cheap
5. PC is cheap, unless it’s big box, but even then sellers will sell big box for cheap because they often don’t know what they have
6. There’s nothing wrong with buying from GOG, burning to disc, and making your own labels and box art—which is easy to do because it’s DRM-free
7. Except for PS1, Sony is cheap. But even then PS1 is cheaper than N64 or Saturn.
8. Nothing wrong with an Everdrive, especially since that’s the best way to play aftermarket games