I was assuming the rails are strong enough to keep the train on the Earth, but I guess infinite friction from the movement and rotation of the Earth probably isn’t survivable by any railway material. Hypothetically, if you had a material unaffected by gravity (train), and a material that is absolutely invincible (the rails, and they are anchored to the center of the Earth), now does it work?

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This would be possible if there was a material unaffected by gravity, right?

LMAO “Barbarians”

For news-oriented communities, I understand using a bot, at least until you build a userbase.

The other replies tell you the simplest method, however if you decide you like Liftoff and want automatic update support, I would recommend Obtainium. To add the app to Obtainium: Go to the Github Releases page for the app and put the url into “add app” in Obtainium.

If you use Jerboa, give Liftoff a try! Very snappy lemmy client.

One of the most satisfying parts of being a modern day American is the fact Southerners took the biggest L possible 155 years ago.

This is sick!

I may be wrong, but I believe the communities hosted on your instance’s content would be lost as well as any content you posted on your own instance, for instance comments on another instance’s community would remain.

Explain to people how it works! The most difficult barrier for adopting the Fediverse is a lack of basic understanding.

Good choice picking a different instance than the devs! Federation is the future 👍

Yes, if what you mean by “not sharing accounts” is that your user account is only able to be signed into from the instance you registered on. This is an issue because it means your account is tied to an instance, and if that instance goes down, so does your content. Lemmy is working to implement account migration between instances (Mastodon already has this feature rolled out), to fix this concern.

“How are communities going to grow if there isn’t at least some form of central management. Other than there being an underlying framework that connects the servers, they’re all just doing what they want.”

No one has ever said the Fediverse will be as easily accessible as Reddit, I think it’s pretty much impossible because of the lack of centralization. But in my opinion, this just doesn’t matter. The only solution would be, as you said, would be some form of central management. It is impossible to have a platform which both fixes the issues Reddit has experienced indefinitely AND has central management. Any social platform which cedes some kind of control, or even just legitimacy, to a centralized source (regardless of how the implementation starts out), will eventually turn into another Reddit. (Assuming the growth is there).

From my point of view the only downside to how Lemmy operates vs. Reddit is the slight learning curve of understanding Federation. Once you understand the concept, your concerns about the platform “fizzling out” would be moot. If you understand Federation, how is it confusing that your different sports communities are in different instances? Each community is distinct in its values, rules, and moderators, they get to choose where to exist, and the alternative would be impossible without granting control to a single meta-instance.

“but it seems like it needs a ‘flagship’ server with a group of people maintaining it to set an example. Then other servers that cover more specific areas, such as sports, can be set up and potentially work closely with that flagship group.”

I couldn’t disagree more, and this is one of my main gripes with Mastodon. Over reliance on a flagship instance only serves to shoehorn people into Lemmy without actually understanding how the platform works. Take the top three English-speaking mastodon instances:

1. mastodon.social: 878k
2. mastodon.cloud: 229k
3. mastodon.online: 164k Source

mastodon.online was created by Mastodon as a secondary official instance, next to the original mastodon.social. When the Twitter influx happened, the vast majority of users signed up for mastodon.social because it was the “flagship instance”. Not as many user’s would have chosen mastodon.social if they actually understood how Federation worked, instead of just blindly signing up for the flagship instance.

Also, about communities about the same topic possible being fragmented across multiple instances is a pro of Lemmy, as long as we foster a culture of combining communities together who agree, while retaining the option to split off to another instance.

TLDR; Understanding how Federation works > Pandering to new users with a flagship instance

Birkenstocks = 🐐

New England states with a Dunkin’ every block take the crown on this one.

I don’t know what burning you’re referring to, but if you’re talking about Salem 1692, no one was ever burned. And it wasn’t about “Not looking Christian enough”, it was most likely either mass hysteria combined with a lying slave girl trying to get out of being executed, or ergot in their bread producing psychedelic affects.

You could be talking about a different even, but I am not aware of it.

Oh man, I had never seen those concept cars before, literally EXACTLY what I want in a vehicle lmao

We need electric vehicles with the interiors and exteriors copied from consumer cars from the 90s.

All the content on my feed should come from unpersonalized suggestions, or the communities i choose to follow. 👍