MentalEdge
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- Comment on Recommend that new users join geographically local instances 13 minutes ago:
I don’t agree.
You present two things as if they are mutually exclusive, when they are not.
The very starting point of your argument seems to be that current niche communities can only exist at the expense of local geographic communities.
As such, you seem to suggest sacrificing existing communities in favor of hypothetical “better” communities based on physical proximity.
Such communities are useful in terms of political mobilization, but they aren’t very fun. People don’t bond over tax rates, they bond over tabletop rpgs, cats, music, movies, etc. And you can’t engage in those bonding activities in local communities until they themselves are big enough to contain such niches within them.
And all of these things can exist simultaneously. In fact I completely reject your view that niche online communities do more harm than good.
Boiled down, your view seems to equate to seeing a bunch of people having fun, and telling them ro go do something useful, while completely dismissing that it doesn’t matter whether I learn empathy from my neighbour, or someone on the other side of the world.
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.
TikTok is even worse about it. The one time I gave it a chance, it was 90% content local to me. But it was mindless trash. At worst, it was xenophobic rhethoric. Local, doesn’t mean meaningful or good.
You saw it on reddit all the time, how people from the US often didn’t even realize they were talking to people across the world. Because it’s a foreign concept to them. Say what you will but it is the one corporate platform that dosn’t care where you are from, and everyone discussing something gets pooled into the same communities and threads, regardles of age, sex, or even timezone.
That is a good thing. We need more of that, not less. Because online and real-world communities DO overlap. But you seem to be asking them to match. That would isolate them, not empower them.
Online communities today are the one way that authentically bridges communities of people across the world. If online communities matched offline communities, why would I ever develop a desire to understand not just my neighbour, but also people across the world?
How would I ever go and find out for myself, how people across the world think and feel? Whether my government speaks true about the threats around us, or if there is more to it?
If you overlap a bunch of circles, they all become connected. If you match them, you get bubbles.
Echo chambers.
- Comment on Recommend that new users join geographically local instances 4 hours ago:
That issue being two years, I’m not sure what the current state of things is.
But servers did move towards EU to combat the problem, and haven’t moved back for what I know.
- Comment on Recommend that new users join geographically local instances 4 hours ago:
It wasn’t just a problem. It was literally impossible for them to keep up.
Re-locating the server was the only option, as opposed to skipping events or shutting down until the problem was fixed.
- Comment on Recommend that new users join geographically local instances 4 hours ago:
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- Comment on Recommend that new users join geographically local instances 4 hours ago:
Was not aware of the latency issue. But that’s something that can surely be overcome.
I haven’t checked. I may have been already.
As a support structure providing more open communication, the fediverse might help with that. It in itself is not, and is not supposed to be, democratic. It’s its own wierd mix of dictatorship with the option for the community at large to wrest control away from current leaders, should they want to.
As of now, preferring “going local” would hinder more than help with irl democracy. There just aren’t enough users. If you divided them you’d end up with a ton of tiny incentive communities, rather thana big pretty lively one.
Smaller communities is also something that happens naturally, and is already happening naturally. The reddit exodus was the spark for a ton of new niches on lemmy hitting critical mass.
There is also plenty of non-english, more local activity already. You just might not be seeing it due to your language settings.
- Comment on Recommend that new users join geographically local instances 6 hours ago:
Agreed. And it’s not a zero-sum game.
The fact I’m on english speaking fediverse doesn’t mean I’m not on the finnish speaking fediverse.
- Comment on Recommend that new users join geographically local instances 6 hours ago:
There currently aren’t many of those.
Due to the rate of federation being limited by latency, instances have actually been re-locating to mostly Europe, so they can more easily keep up with each other.
Basically, every federated event needs to propagate, but the next one can’t be sent out before the last one is received and an aknowledgement comes back.
That means a higher latency makes an instance federate at a lower rate, causing it to fall behind. Eventually, some instances were having activity from .world show up with days of delay due to being on the other side of the world.
But since your point is mostly ideological/cultural, that doesn’t really matter. You’re talking about identity, not infrastructure.
Which kinda defeats your point. Geography doesn’t matter. You can set up a finnish community on a swedish instance and vice versa.
And I’m not sure what you means by “reviving democracy”.
The fediverse is explicitly NOT democratic. It’s run by large group of benevolent dictators (admins and mods) who maintain the environment they and the users of their respective instances and communities desire.
They are kept in line not by votes, but by the fact that any one of them can be defederated by the rest, and they can all be supplanted by any one user with the desire to set up their own instance or community.
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- Comment on Please no, just stop 1 day ago:
They’re literally using ranbow coloring and sparklies to try and catch your attention.
That you should tell you everything you need to know.
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- Comment on [Discussion] What is your most 'comfy' anime? 2 days ago:
I I have many.
The top spot is probsbly shared by Interviews with Monster Girls and Machikado Mazoku.
But then:
Bofuri. Bocchi the Rock. Hinamatsuri. Girls und Panzer. Gabriel Dropout. Sakura Quest. Patlabor. Mitsuboshi Colors.
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- Comment on Over 47% of Stop Killing Games Signatures Have Already Been Verified 5 days ago:
No you aren’t.
There is absolutely nothing here indicating the people who care about this, don’t care about other issues.
If anything, this was so successful because it might actually work.
A bunch of EU citizen signatures wishing a war to end wouldn’t do shit.
- Comment on Over 47% of Stop Killing Games Signatures Have Already Been Verified 5 days ago:
And your solution is put down the one that did?
The EU citizens initiative objectively improves our chances of having a slightly better society in the future.
And that does not happen at the expense of some other arbitrary more important potential improvement.
So you are literally just complaining about something getting better.
- Comment on GOG asking for more donations from gamers with the new GOG Patrons program 6 days ago:
It’d be enough even if they just contributed to Heroic, the way Valve started contributing to wine/proton.
It’s mind boggling to me that they remained completely silent on linux, even as SteamDeck took off.
- Comment on Relatable. 1 week ago:
One Pace is certainly the best way to watch it.
But the pacing isn’t the only issue that crops up over the series.
- Comment on Your ancestors are proud of you. 1 week ago:
That’s a yikes.
- Comment on Relatable. 1 week ago:
One Piece
I love the universe and characters to bits, and still keep up with the manga.
But at some point the anime became utterly unwatchable for me.
Even the admittedly amazing recent improvement in animation, is ruined by the sfx work.
- Comment on They need to bring you in to feel their power over you 1 week ago:
Good news everyone (bad news for most of you)! In order to meet production targets (satisfy investors), we are optimizing workflows and cutting unneeded redundancies (firing most of you).
- Comment on Banana 1 week ago:
It’s just that most of the time they aren’t feasible for export.
I didn’t know that.
Maybe it would be more accurate to say we won’t have an edible banana that is suitable for large-scale industrial production.
- Comment on Banana 1 week ago:
Well.
We wont have bananas that taste any good. The ones we eat are selectively bred to become seedless, and are thereby infertile, and must be cloned to be propagated.
The species would still exist, but we’d have to start over with developing a plant that produces something edible.
- Comment on Banana 1 week ago:
Being monocultures, (genetic clones) commercially grown edible bananas are extremely vulnerable to disease.
The currently most popular variant is the Cavendish, replacing the earlier and now extinct Gros Michel, wiped out by the Panama Disease (a fungus).
While the Gros Michel isn’t coming back, people are apparently trying to create and grow new variants, as what happened before can happen again.
- Comment on Holy moly 1 week ago:
Neat. But can you steal the cars?
- Comment on They need to bring you in to feel their power over you 1 week ago:
Also we’re making more than ever and projects are launching with thundering success.
Unfortunately we’ve hit on some hard times and are going to have to let some of you go.
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