It’s amazing both how low it is and how high it is in certain regions. India is a fascinating country. Thanks for sharing.

Quite a nice thing about Lemmy is modlogs are public: https://lemmy.ml/modlog?userId=738214

Like capitalism in general, I believe copyright is a good thing in moderation. When those who profit from something want ever more, and those who rule let them, that’s when things go sour.

Aw man. Please tell me you are at least somehow monetizing my Personally Identifiable Information? That’s the minimum I would expect from a social media platform in 2023 😉

It’s good you keep putting this out there, and this messaging will have to continue. Lemmy really was not ready for this influx of users. Even Mastodon with a much longer history of active development was barely ready for its rapid growth.

This place is great regardless. Glitches and limitations and all. Thanks.

Behind me, I heard the same man asking:

“For God’s sake, where is God?”

And from within me, I heard a voice answer:

“Where is He? This is where – hanging here from this gallows…”

A man named Dick Pick invented GIRLS.

This is one reason why I like it here. What annoyed me on Reddit sometimes was discussing “unpopular opinions”.

For example on my local subreddit people would constantly argue for more housing density, which is great for affordability but any mention of “but what about transportation infrastructure then” got mercilessly downvoted. I really don’t mind people disagreeing in replies but having a whole conversation downvoted and subsequently hidden is annoying. It generally made me not want to comment on Reddit, and just let the hivemind be.

A thing I learned from having a Mastodon account for a while, even before the Twitter meltdown, was I can enjoy using it without needing to have everyone there. Lemmy feels like the same way. Yeah maybe I don’t see all the good posts, but I don’t care. Just Beehaw feels like Reddit maybe 10-15 years ago which I thought was fun too.

I’m intrigued by it, but I don’t really understand it. The list of “magazines” appears to be randomly sorted. I guess “posts” are Fedi hashtags while “threads” are link aggregator posts…?

I knew I should’ve loaded up on BHAW when it was cheap!

I believe defederation is one of the best things about the Fediverse. People who say objectionable things have the right to free speech too (within reason), but I just don’t want to see it or interact with them. Defederation enables peaceful coexistence in a way which could never work on a centralized social media platform.

Map Men, Map Men, Map Map Map Men Men

Subbed too

True. Let’s be honest though, in a world where people are used to huge centralized platforms like Twitter and Reddit, the Fediverse is unfamiliar and confusing. Not sure what can be done about it other than educating people. But there may always be a slight barrier to entry.

Technology running on technology originally developed by the American Military-Industrial Complex. It is an odd mixture of influences.

I don’t completely disagree, but that’s not what I meant. People are conflating the views of Lemmy’s main developers with the project itself, and I believe they can be separated.

Not speaking for anyone but me, but sometimes when people say they something is too political it really means too much “extreme” political views. Personally I don’t want to interact with extreme auth-left or auth-right content. I think politely discussing why access to housing should be guaranteed by government, or arguing for lower corporate taxes or whatever, isn’t what bothers most people.

Fortunately Fedi allows instances who are fine with it host those users, and I don’t have to see it. And Lemmy -the project- isn’t political, it’s just software for which I’m grateful to the devs.

Thanks Beehaw admins & mods & sysadmins. Even before this week it felt like such a welcoming community with good principles. Beehaw made me want to try Lemmy again. And it’s been fun. We appreciate you.

Get ready to call on more help with scaling, because if Reddit shuts down their API in July looking back this week may seem like a small event in comparison.

European “Centrist” Social-Democratic.

Multi-party parliamentary democracy. Free market for labor and goods. Progressive taxation. Slightly favorable treatment for investors and business etc. Universal healthcare and a social safety net. It’s still not perfect but everything else seems to be worse.

Ah, Music of course fits for this one. I generally ignore Music communities as I do on Reddit because they tend to just be people spamming songs, which I get bored of.

Still I wonder if a generic “Videos” community would be a good or bad thing.

Specifically, this one. I think it’s way cool to see some of the making of Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hxa-5BZXsto