Are you sure that you don’t already know it by heart?

So… a Lemming then? 😳😛

Don’t do it! Then it would always remind you of work when you see it.

They are not - he X/cancelled it.:-P

If the question is capitalism vs. personal choice, I ask por que no los dos?

I never watched Rings of Power, though get what you mean about Aragorn in Lord of the Rings.

Haven’t children been that way ever since Watergate? Caveat: perhaps to an ever-increasing degree, as the number of such events increases. Who today that does not already own a home ever have a hope to do so? (In most Western nations) Who hopes for social security in the USA to be more than merely yet another tax paid out without expectation of remuneration? Who expects a return on health insurance either? When you have to pay out multiple thousand before even a single dime gets paid out, in that realm of low cost you essentially don’t have health insurance (and then do, briefly, and then if there isn’t a cap on payments, back to again not).

The cynicism is entirely logical. Or at least was prior to this year. In the future, people will merely either be alive vs. not, it would seem, e.g. with some projections saying that over a billion people will die in the next 5-20 years, and possibly half (to all) of the population of Earth a couple decades after that. They know this… they aren’t stupid, and unlike the oldest generations, aren’t sticking their heads in the sand purposefully. Their eyes are wide open as they are being brutalized, by the very same people they call “family”. Whatever adolescence should or should not have been is no longer relevant, as extinction itself is now on the table and potentially imminent in their - and even our - lifetimes (especially with the aid of the specter of the likes of WWIII to help speed it along?).

Or if none of that is true, it at least might be, and either way seems to sum up how they feel.

Wasn’t this already true for those regurgitated clickbait SEO optimized pages that stole views away from the true original source?

They can choose not to.

It does sorta work that way… but it also allows the situation to fester and so then when it “leaks” outside of those echo chambers such individuals feel quite emboldened. Oh well, they can do as they please, as long as I am allowed to as well.

No, PieFed is not in any way Lemmy. Maybe you are thinking of Tesseract, the alternative Lemmy front-end? See e.g. https://t.lemmy.world/ or https://t.lemmy.dbzer0.com/.

PieFed is an entirely different implementation of the ActivityPub protocol, similar to Mbin (and Kbin before it), and the Sublinks project that hasn’t seen updates in a long while (the developer had a baby:-). PieFed has its own UI, with many themes and configuration elements (normal vs. compact vs. super compact mode, as well as List vs. Tile vs. Wide Tile display of posts), and app support in Interstellar and a not-official-yet fork of Thunder.

Those two apps also support Lemmy and the former also supports Mbin. So a lot of these things are interchangeable, but what I want to convey here is that PieFed is an alternative back-end, not merely a new UI for “Lemmy” (bc with those apps someone can have the same UI they are already used to, but swap out a Lemmy instance with a PieFed one).

And that’s important to have another source of these forum/thread based software, bc otherwise development gets stagnated and locked in to a single dev teams viewpoint. e.g. Lemmy is actually more authoritian than Reddit itself is in a number of ways - yes there is a modlog, but there is no modmail, no notification of a moderation event, no ability to contact a mod, nor even a way to know which mod did it when the modlog (if you even noticed that your content was affected and went looking) simply says it was a “mod” who did it. Lemmy offers enormous freedom to instance admins, who typically offer much freedom to moderators, but individual users have actually fewer “rights” than on Reddit - e.g. again the right to even be told that your content was removed, or to ask someone why.

In contrast, PieFed offers a very large set of features designed for democratization of moderation, e.g. keyword filtering, labels placed next to user account names (example: this account is less than two weeks old, or this account posts ten times more often than comments so may be an unregistered bot, or this account receives and gives ten times more downvotes than upvotes so is a highly contentious/toxic user), all designed to put the power of choosing what content goes where in the hands of the end user, rather than require moderator decisions for each and every tiny matter.

i.e. Lemmy was designed by people kicked out of Reddit for being too toxic to be a less feature-complete replacement for that exact experience, whereas PieFed in contrast is blazing new ground that even Reddit had not bothered to offer such things to their users (all new features on Reddit for years now have been designed to maximize profits, not make users happy with what they are seeing, very unfortunately). Even if you choose not to use it (yet? although I challenge anyone to go through the sign-up wizard process and not become enthused by what you see), it’s really quite an exciting project!

So I never used it but apparently Reddit has this feature of multi-communities, which the only way to really replicate that on Lemmy is to have many many many accounts on several different instances, each one dedicated to a different topic. Like on one you could have it be dedicated to news and politics while on all the others you could block those, thus allowing you to get your fix but only when you so choose.

This highly-requested feature (which might make it Lemmy eventually but iirc someone said that it has been on the roadmap or perhaps it was just a feature request on GitHub for five years already) is available all within a single account on PieFed. PieFed lacks a little bit of polish compared to Lemmy, but also has more functionality, in areas like this. It’s more “experimental” than Lemmy then, and being in Python is going to catch up a heck of a lot sooner. I suppose there’s a question of how well Python would work at large scales of millions of people in comparison to Rust, except looking at subscriber numbers for the entire Fediverse including even Mastodon, that’s really not a concern for now, and the way things are going (e.g. look at Bluesky snapping up people who refuse both X and Mastodon, and love its fully featured UI) may never be a concern in the future either.

I spent a year on Lemmy learning how to curate my feed, and in like a week on PieFed realized that the vast majority of that is unnecessary here. e.g. when you sign up for a new account, the wizard asks you what your interests are and then pre-subscribes you to communities based on your answers (ofc you can always leave them later and add new ones continually). It also asks what keywords you may want to block, like “Trump” or “Musk”, and offers not only All or None, but also Some. It’s really quite amazing how well it’s all handled!:-)

What you are saying about image sizes sounds at a guess like Tile or even Wide Tile mode, which if a community looks like mostly images I suppose it may default to? Whereas other communities and topic areas reading the titles is more helpful, so for those it defaults to “List” mode. (Although I’m not sure if that’s simply a stored setting or based on measurement of things like image size to title width or some such). See for instance News and Politics where the thumbnails are smaller, as opposed to [email protected] where they take up a much wider space.

I don’t like the very recent change making it harder to switch these settings by adding in another click required, but the developers are extremely open to feedback and if others think similarly then it may be changed yet again, possibly in mere days to weeks (rather than Lemmy’s timeframe of multiple years).

There is also app support in Interstellar and a fork (not yet official but still in testing) of Thunder. Though the webpage view is quite fine as it is, usually:-).

Speaking of, I just noticed a new Settings option for “compact UI”, with numerous values, which completely change how [email protected] looks (no image previews, in Firefox on Android, not sure how desktop and other browsers would handle it), and an even tighter setting removes vertical spacing as well to fit more posts into a denser space - exactly as you wanted!:-)

I bet if you go through the sign-up wizard, you’ll be entirely sold on it:-) https://piefed.social/ is the experimental flagship instance, but there are several other options available as well.

lemmy.dbzer0.com is a damn fine instance as well, with very solid admins, it’s only drawback being that it’s still using Lemmy, which especially for established users (who have already learned how to block stuff and navigate to existing communities) is mostly fine. But damn, PieFed is so exciting how it’s developing new features monthly! Definitely worth following if nothing else (although for me, this is my main now:-).

I would say “^This” in jest but didn’t want to traumatize you, so wrapped it in this sentence:-). But yeah, I decided to leave Reddit for good around the time of the protests. Fortunately I had Kbin (a now-defunct alternative to Lemmy, the project carried forward by Mbin and somewhat in spirit by PieFed which I am on now) to jump to, but seriously I was going to leave all that trash regardless. I did not enjoy what it was doing to me - like how argumentative and defensive I was having to become upon saying ANYTHING at all, and more often choosing not to respond in places like r/pop(ular) bc of the feedback that would inevitably come.

The Threadiverse (threaded-style defederated forum software, currently Lemmy + Mbin + PieFed) isn’t perfect, but is so much better! It requires a ton more effort to set up than Reddit did (well, Lemmy does - check out PieFed’s setup wizard and you’ll never look back!:-P), yet unlike corporate enshittified Reddit is worth it. Breathe the free air here!

Also an interesting article to read about the addictive effects that such platforms engender in their unwitting participants: https://medium.com/@max.p.schlienger/the-cargo-cult-of-the-ennui-engine-890c541cebcb .

Plus there’s a bit of a toxicity problem.

Reddit shares that but fair has nothing to do with it: people are grandfathered into existing Reddit subs and for them to switch, they want it to be painless. Also, niche subs with fantastic mods are particularly where Reddit’s toxicity problem is least apparent, as compared to coming to Lemmy and browsing by All. Otherwise new visitors go back to Reddit and complain in e.g. r/RedditAlternatives about what meanies we have over here… which is a true statement, as Lemmy was literally created by the same people who were kicked out of Reddit for being too toxic, and created this Reddit 2.0 (but decentralized, making it worthwhile).

Being told that e.g. having a bank account makes them equivalent to supporting genocide does NOT endear people to us. Take a look at Lemmy.ml, and/or hexbear.net, if you don’t believe me - tbf there were far more of such BoTh SiDeS sAmE posts back prior to the USA election, and pretty much every election in a Western nation, but they still persist today. We are a Nazi bar here, by federating that content everywhere. Also, the last time I checked out that join-lemmy website, it literally gave me the advice to join… wait for it… Hexbear.net, making even defederation from such instances as Lemmy.world insufficient so long as people are being told to come here via that website.

People do not enjoy being made fun of - should they though? - hence Lemmy will never gain a mainstream audience of non-technical users from the primarily centrist or even right-leaning userbases of Reddit or X/Twitter. We can be okay with that, or do something about it, but either way those are the options, not the middle ground of just hoping that people will ignore the trolling that is far too often allowed here.

On Reddit though, mostly what they offer is arguments with robots? 🤖😜

For Lemmy that’s what I used to do yeah, bc there was no better option.

PieFed offers numerous additional options though, most especially categories of communities, including user customizable and shareable Feeds. You can even have your cake and eat it too - like subscribe to no political communities to avoid them showing up in your Subscribed, but then it’s a click away in the News and Politics Topic area. Or, the keywords filter options (for e.g. “Trump”, “Musk”, or whatever you want) include All, None, and Some, allowing you to refine your Subscribed feed to meet your interest level in a particular subject.

And then for very low-volume communities, you can even set up Notification triggers upon every new post (I also use this for a community I mod using a Lemmy alt) - e.g. poetry tends to not be highly upvoted so super difficult to catch organically on either All or Subscribed (you might have more luck there sorting by New, but this requires blocking a TON of communities like for sports and individual locations and such).

PieFed really is an entirely different experience than Lemmy! Maybe as it becomes successful, the Lemmy devs may start to port the features over? But it’s doubtful, as existing requests have languished for like 5 years already - PieFed’s being written in Python rather than Rust really makes a difference in such matters.

Are you one?

I am 🤖BEEP🤖 definitely not one!

A lot of Redditors are lazy consumers though, not wanting to put forth any effort to making their spaces better.

Oh well, guess they’ll just have to stay on Reddit then… 😉

There is a noticeable lack of niche content though, so Redditors saying that aren’t willing to see how the style of interactions on the Threadiverse is different.

Not only there, but the little bell icon next to… well… everything. i.e. not only at the time of posting, but at any time you can click, unclick, click again, etc.

And you can do it for other people’s content as well as your own.

You can also do it for other people too, or for communities (both of those work best for low-volume entities, obviously:-P). Like poetry tends to get swamped out in Hot, and is still fairly rare in New, so the notifications is one way to make sure to receive all of them. Or posts for a community that you moderate, even if using an account on a different instance.

PieFed is fantastic! 😍

That is 💯% exhaustion, readily attainable by anyone but requires much effort:-)

Then get to work!