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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the difference between lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works?⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  The two main reasons people attack LW is:

  1. people who criticise it because it is by far the largest instance, and thereby means lemmy is as decentralised as it could be, I think this is a fair point, because it has caused federation issues with for example aussie.zone in the past.

  2. Tankies who get mad the average lemmy.world user does not share their admiration for China, Russia, North Korea, Stalin, and Mao.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you create?⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Philosophical ramblings to justify my existence, which according to capitalism has no value because I don’t have the ability to work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there any truth to this?⁩ ⁨⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a good shout. I think I’ll do that in the coming weeks :).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there any truth to this?⁩ ⁨⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I am bridged, but I prefer not to share my handle as my Mastodon and Bluesky accounts are have full name, while I want to keep the lemmy ones anonymous.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there any truth to this?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  perhaps. but the open source moderation list feature seems pretty cool, hopefully it’ll help.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there any truth to this?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Also they only follow a single person??

  Like how do they expect their feed to be customised and filled with stuff they enjoy, when all they do is follow 1 person and make political posts and posts such as “bluesky sucks, mastodon is best”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there any truth to this?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly I want to believe this but I’ve had 0 bigoted accounts ever come into my bluesky replies, when on twitter this would be a daily occurrence.

  I’ve met one tankie, and blocked them, but that’s it, and I have 1.7k bluesky posts and 8k followers.

  In my time in mastodon, I didn’t experience bigots either, but neither have I in bluesky, and I’m an easy target, I’m disabled and my face looks deformed, it’s my profile picture, while on twitter I’d get snide remarks every day, it’s never been the case on bluesky, and I had one mastodon user make a joke (but that’s just one user).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple's controversial iPhone accessory may have been discontinued⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean if you’re buying the apple version sold on their website a 5x market value instead of an off brand one I kinda get it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨First Look: Loops, by Pixelfed⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  the bottleneck to peertube seems to be populating and having more viewers, not hosting costs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨First Look: Loops, by Pixelfed⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Signed up on loops.video a couple weeks ago

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨First Look: Loops, by Pixelfed⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah since there is little content I can’t tell if there is an algorithm or not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨First Look: Loops, by Pixelfed⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  not having it be littered by bigots and have an add every 4 scrolls, along with better privacy, is probably the reason why.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Petition calls to ban Elon Musk's X in Europe⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  FYI a lot of people on Lemmy use the fact Jack Dorsey was involved in Bluesky as a way to attack it, but that’s not super accurate.

  He completely left bluesky a year ago and even deleted his account, he has no involvement with it whatsoever anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Petition calls to ban Elon Musk's X in Europe⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Bsky has 20 million users, which is great, basically doubled in a month, but twitter has hundreds of millions of users. We talking a different order of magnitude.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Niche Communities won't be able to reach their true potential until lemmy adds a sort that takes engagement into account.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  When do you start counting it as an algoritm.

  The current sorts (except new) are based on formulas, does suddenly adding a personal engagement variable into the formula make it an algorithm?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Niche Communities won't be able to reach their true potential until lemmy adds a sort that takes engagement into account.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s what I do. As I mentioned in the example in my post.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Niche Communities won't be able to reach their true potential until lemmy adds a sort that takes engagement into account.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  So almost forum like?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Niche Communities won't be able to reach their true potential until lemmy adds a sort that takes engagement into account.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I mentioned scaled sort in my post. Yes it boosts communities with less activity (in practice this tends to be midsized communities as I mentioned in my post), but it does so generally. What my post is advocating for is a sort that boosts the communities you tend to engage with a lot, not every community that is less active.

• Niche Communities won't be able to reach their true potential until lemmy adds a sort that takes engagement into account.
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a Lemmy community for finding Lemmy communities?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  No one mentioned !lemmy411@lemmy.ca which is exactly what you’re asking.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MealtimeVideos@lemmy.cafe - A place to watch interesting videos while you eat⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Cool too see some decentralisation from LW. And Lemmy.cafe is a really cool instance.

  I don’t have the ability to currently watch videos, so I won’t be participating, but good job.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why it’s time for the UK to introduce a new law to allow assisted dying⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  First, PIP payments and disability insurance above the poverty line.

  Don’t become one of those countries where disabled people are financially pressured towards euthanasia. The government benefits from this and will covertly allow it to happen like is currently the case in Canada, unless we make our voices heard.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hate needs justification⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  My view is hate the system, not the people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨whales are the mightiest of fish⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  yeah this is one of my favourite meme formats when done right

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Use 'Bridgy Fed' to connect Mastodon and Bluesky⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  the .bsky.social is the main instance. The bridge acts as another instance.

  For example one of my friends has a bsky account hosted on the fellas.social instance, so his username is johndoe.fellas.social

  it basically works like lemmy and mastodon in that regard

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Use 'Bridgy Fed' to connect Mastodon and Bluesky⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  its opt in and the bridge is only a single instance so you can defederate from the instance

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Use 'Bridgy Fed' to connect Mastodon and Bluesky⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There are tens of thousands of accounts opted into the bridge.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky says it won’t train AI on your posts⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a Public Benefit Corp structure, so legally investors have very little power.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nine in ten honey samples from UK retailers fail authenticity test⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So it’s basically sugar syrup.