well what did you expect? it’s the option that makes most money

hahah that happened to me once, it was so awkward xD

I have made a habit of writing down somebody’s name immediately after i met them on a notes app on my phone. This way i remember it better but also i can look it up in case i do end up forgetting it anyways.

Maybe turning mastodon and pixelfed tags into communities and figuring out how to better integrate there would provide more and interesting content

yeah, i’ve been thinking about the same thing. how to properly embed mastodon content into Lemmy? Maybe one community for each poster? Is that the right approach?

Or should one Mastodon hashtag turn into one Lemmy community?

mostly these

Reddit’s algo

in fact i have been asking for a better Lemmy content recommendation system here

i never said i support the democrats. in fact i don’t. sorry if it came across that way.

my take is that 1. you don’t need equal supply year-through because big consumers should be able to sleep and reduce their energy intake in the winter. yes i know that is complicated, but sleep is also complicated in nature and evolution still pulled through with it because it does pay off in the long term.

secondly, storage can also be renewable biomass. i have some napkin math sitting around somewhere on my disk that says that about 5% of the yearly energy demand can be covered with basically non-cost “waste” biomass that’s basically being burned to get rid of it today. I actually wanted to write a longer post about it in the [email protected] community, i just couldn’t figure out how to properly present my calculations yet.

o7

i am still surprised that 800 people commented. i never saw 800 people under a single post so it must be pretty dang important to people

It was never about not having gatekeepers, it’s about being able to choose who the gatekeeper(s) is/are.

I really feel you. I recently started aggressively blocking all politics-related communities. It does help a lot. Feed is much emptier, obviously, but it’s still the right move i guess.

i don’t know

ooh, SoftestSapphic, i remember seeing your memes :) i liked them

somehow needs this meme in it:

no graceful transition is opted for

transition to what, exactly? i think people might have vastly different opinions about this, so it’s not easy to just go to a new thing

Instead they follow the same route as all the empires of old, increasing violence and desperation practically guaranteeing hatred and reprisal when they are crippled and broken.

When you are about to die yourself, do you just let it happen or do you struggle and try to fight against it?

I have thought the same thing but i don’t think the distinctions will be so clear after all because even today, there’s people from China connecting to western internet via VPN. i have some in a chat group i’m in btw.

So yeah, i think some proximity metric would help people to find stuff “near them” - either geographically or content-wise. Like, i’d actually like there to be an easy way to find communities and people near me geographically. It would probably help me make friends and find people that i can be in contact with IRL.

That’s why i run the [email protected] community. It’s a very niche interest topic but i found no other good-quality community discussing martian settlement so i made my own. And i figure if the quality is good enough, it might be enough to bring in other users from other platforms simply to have good discussions.

I have checked the mars subreddit on Reddit but it’s full of idiots and people who are just generic naysayers or people who saw 1 youtube video and now think they’re experts or sth.

Maybe you could share a screenshot that includes the address bar instead? 🤣️

What do you think of a content filter setup when you register the account like this:

Effectively, when you click “no politics”, it blocks the [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] communities and such.