Search for keywords that interest you. And pay attention to links to other communities/posts and subscribe whenever it seems of interest.

I’m not sure I see the distinction you’re making here. Usually those groups are highly overlapping.

I think it gives them a little bit too much power in negotiating with other instances, especially with the number of communities hosted here. Choosing to stop interacting with them is a very drastic action because much of the threadiverse is here. Especially for me who has already cut out .ml which also has a disproportionate number of communities due to its age.

No I’m saying the logic and propaganda of corporate social media seems to work on them, despite it being in obvious contrast to their ideals.

Thanks. Yeah .world is definitely a bit too big, but it’s still miles better than bluesky.

Anyone have the numbers for Lemmy specifically?

I feel like this speaks to an unchallenged myth in our society. That corporate organizations and government organizations are somehow completely categorically different from one another such that they exist in totally separate spheres of reality. But they’re both political groups of people, exercising power over the peasants. It’s not as different as people think. And they often have similar goals and use similar strategies, like propaganda, to achieve them.

Does it? None of my normie progressive friends are on the fediverse. The ones that tried it didn’t like it.

What should be and what is are two different things. I’m just saying that in the US at least, much of the carceral state is privatized.

Are you sure it’s publicly owned?

So most of these are on the front range (which is ass) but it’s interesting that it goes to grand junction. Any stops along the way?

I’ve done it many times. Makes little difference though it’s best done with lighter flow because it can get messy when heavy.

Now, whether a woman will want to have sex during menstruation might vary because it often comes with unpleasant physical side effects that may damper your libido.

Car drivers in the last two years killed about 80,000 people in the US. That is of a similar scale to the murders in Gaza. So your point that this is unimportant is off base.

Most people don’t pay much or any attention to local politics which makes advertising and incumbency very powerful. Most people literally just vote for the name they recognize from TV or mailers.

It would take a large increase in political consciousness to fix this.

Lemmy is full of boring old farts.

Another corporate platform whose goal is to make its owners rich. It might look good in the early days when they need to attract users, but once they gain dominance, they will start to extract more and more value from you, just like Reddit is doing. And if they don’t reach that critical mass of users, it will simply fail. There is simply no pathway for a healthy, sustainable platform under corporate ownership.

The nature of walled gardens greatly limits user bargaining power, allowing owners greater latitude in abusing their users. This is why the fediverse is a much better model. And why I’m here even though I think the Lemmy developers are just as despicable as the people who started Reddit and Digg.

Flight requires extreme adaptations that make terrestrial life much more difficult. It’s hard to evolve it and once you do, going back will be difficult. Especially when competing with a bunch of animals that haven’t completely warped their bodies for a totally different lifestyle.

On isolated islands without mammals, many birds do begin to revert to a terrestrial strategy. But the mammal body plan is just better for this, and when mammals have reached such places, flightless birds have almost immediately experienced population collapse.

For sure. If you check out the subreddit for alternatives it’s basically: posts advertising Lemmy, posts complaining about Lemmy, and posts for new alternatives with like 5 users, typically by the founder who appears to be engaged in some get-rich quick scheme.

Oh and people who for some reason buy the BS from Digg.

Very good point. To be honest, I haven’t paid much attention to this story but maybe I should.

I disagree. The east coast is quite plainly the Atlantic coast, including part of the South. If you mean Northeast, just say that.