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It relates to Lemmy's roots among self-hosters - the idea being that, as a user of Arch btw, someone could simply subscribe to whatever content they wanted, and then not have to pull down and retain stuff that they did not want (which could also be a bit dangerous, e.g. child pornography).

But if you want to contribute to the codebase the functionality that you are talking about, that's awesome.

It won't solve the major problems though: lack of overall content, lack of organization of content (though here the Lemmy alternative PieFed has an amazing start in its Topics feature - one day not too far distant I expect PieFed will overtake Lemmy), and contentious users that will troll and make fun of ESPECIALLY people from a Western nation (do an experiment: using GOOGLE, not Duck Duck Go or Kagi or anything other than what a non-technical normie would do, and look at the top instance that it recommends, and maybe count the number of posts that make fun of the USA, which btw is where the vast majority of Reddit users are from). Trying to avoid the trolls here on Lemmy takes an EXTREME amount of effort, which to me explains why literally 100% of the people that I've told irl about Lemmy have actually chided me for having recommended it to them (and when you do that experiment, you should see it first-hand yourself, although tbf now that the USA election season is over perhaps the rhetoric has been toned down? I haven't tried lately).

Edit: here is a prior example that occurred just prior to the election, informing us how Biden and Trump were exactly tHe SaMe ThO:

I believe the lesson attempted to be imparted here is how despite the fact that Russia and China and North Korea are "not" doing genocide (any attempts to say otherwise result in site-wide bans), it is the USA that is bad, and more generally capitalism and the West (here, it helps to realize that Russia and China are "not" capitalist, in this formulation).

Anyway, the most important bits are how: (1) Google searches directs people to this instance, among all of them, bc it was one of the first and most popular, and (2) it has its feed set to show only Local posts by default for new users. They will see such anti-Western propaganda, and will miss all the other great content on other instances across the Fediverse. And then go back to Reddit complaining that Lemmy is the place made by tankies who got kicked out of Reddit for being too extreme. Which, tbf, is the actual truth.

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Well, it really depends on what one wants the fediverse to be. Should it be homogenized? Or heterogeneus? Having new servers auto-synchronize with the "top" (however one defines this) existing sites promotes homogeneity and the simulation of centralized social media. This seems to be what people here today want.

But if you're creating a simulacrum of centralized social media, you have to answer the question: Why wouldn't I just stay on an actually centralized service?

The fesiverse has the chance to be something new, if we just abandon the desire to make believe that it's like what we already have.

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Does anyone have the promo image?

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No one likes ads or people with money influencing what they can see, its all anyone is complaining about on social media especially with the tiktok ban, thats why pixelfed has an influx, every other post I see is "block facebook block musk fix your algorithim bs" they would prefer an owned by the ppl social media id they knew of it and if it was as functional.

I didn't even know lemmy existed til a week before I got banned off reddit, thought voat was still around lol. Thats also because I specifically asked for alts on the alt subreddit.

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Reddit mods suck, reddit karma system sucks for new users so we have that over them (they can barely comment and cant post), reddit censors all the time at least once most ppl have been temp banned or had a comment/post removed that they thought wasn't controversial. The algorithim is forcing controversy, cant avoid negative subreddits, your subscribed feed will show you stuff you arent subscribed to from communities that you downvote.

Reddit just has the ppl that have been there forever and are addicted to answering questions for dopamine hits. Whats annoying is reddit tends to have ppl that are at the intermediate level of each niche so the advice/info they give gets popular and parroted while it may not be the best.

Major issue with reddit is shills and bots, you cant trust reccs on their anymore, gotta look through profile history, might be slightly better here due to them not targetting us.

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Bluesky really swooped in with their marketing, that shift shouldve gone to mastodon.

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Does fediverse have good normie stuff? My friends use x mostly for discussing sports.

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It's available on Wikimedia Commons

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sad no element/matrix icon noises q.q

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Mastodon did it to themselves.

There's a reason Bluesky has a UI that's more or less exactly like old Twitter. It makes for a smooth transfer.

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if the Fediverse is so great (ethical, devoid of advertising or toxic, addictive algorithms, with the goal of genuinely connecting people) why is it that the general public has not heard of it?

Oh for about the same reason big media is suddenly all fine and dandy with Nazis, I'd think. Money talks, and for people with cages, if you can't promote yourself for some reason then at least you promote each other.

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