Comment on Recommend that new users join geographically local instances
JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world 1 day agoSeems to be a misunderstanding. My proposal concerns servers, not communities. It would do no more than responsibilize users (“your virtual home here has people who may be your neighbors”) and encourage them to join local communities where they might discuss local issues (rather than, say, US politics).
What youre asking for, IMO, is for the fediverse to work more like facebook and twitter, which HEAVILY bias their feeds towards local matters. The US would not have been so easy to turn into a xenophobic ball of angry people if their social media were MORE international.
Corporate social media is only biased towards local if you count the whole USA as “local”. Again, seems to be a misunderstanding. In the US case “local” would mean state or town.
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
What’s the difference?
There’s that false dichotomy again.
We must be using different corporate social media. Of course facebook, twitter and tiktok show different content depending on every factor there is. The thing is, they wont connect you to people in your town that have a different opinion. They are tuned towards NOT changing whatever opinion you already have, unless you’re pre-disposed to going down dopamine laced rabbit holes.
Meanwhile, the fediverse does connect people with differing opinions. That it doesn’t necessarily do so locally, is a feature, not a bug.
JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world 1 day ago
You’re an argumentative fellow! I’m still not sure exactly what it is you’re disagreeing with. My proposal is pretty boring and inoffensive. Everything’s in the post. But if you disagree, that’s fine.
No they’re not. Communities have “c/” in front of their name. I’m sure you know that already.
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
You’re confusing my use of the word community in its literal meaning, with its meaning as a term in the context of lemmy as a piece of software.
I do not think that sorting people online by where they are from would help.
In fact I think sorting people online by where they are from could even be harmful, and potentially dangerous.
That the change you would make is small, does not change my opinion that it would be for the worse, nor that your reasoning for wanting to make it, as I understand it, seems faulty.