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Most definitely. I’m getting pretty sick and tired of the constant complaining about those Lemmy instances.

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You have really good insights about this, and it’s a great question. I wish it weren’t buried 5 levels deep in this thread, where few people may see it. Maybe you could write it up as a top level post on the Fediverse community?

I agree that the Facebook format is fine. The real problem with them is the algorithms. Oh, and all the data harvesting, advertising, and now bots pretending to be real people? I guess everything else about Facebook is terrible except the format!

Unfortunately, I don’t know. I read that mobile apps for it are few and far between? There may only be one or no app for Friendica on each platform. I think I also read that there are a couple of apps in beta at the moment?

I heard that it was one of the earliest Fediverse projects. It just hadn’t surged in popularity like Mastodon and Lemmy had after the Twitter and Reddit exodus.

Ah, thank you! That’s what I was actually thinking of, but then I thought I was mistaken.

I see that Trump is trying to reduce US carbon output by drastically reducing commercial air traffic, either by simple lack of air traffic controllers or by making the public too scared to fly! Quite the environmentalist! /s

I see. It sounds like it’s deeply ingrained then. I think you’ve more than done your job and it’s all you can do.

Good to know, thanks.

Great to hear! Not sure why it wouldn’t work in the alternative UI.

What I do is paste the entire foreign Lemmy instance post URL (like the ones in your post) into the search on my own instance. Lemmy seems to recognize that and return my local instance’s copy of that post as the first result. Try it out and see if it works for you. I ran into your post while browsing “new” by the way, I wasn’t visiting lemmy.zip.

Sure. The vehicle will under report speed and driven mileage with larger wheels and tires, and over report both with smaller wheels than tires. I’m not if it’s possible to adjust the speedometer and odometer, or if people even bother.

I don’t know anything about loops but I use mastodon fairly regularly. Mastodon only has like two basic algorithms: your main feed shows the individual posts of everyone you follow or which contain hashtags you follow. Then there’s another page that will also show you the top posts of the day - I believe that goes by the posts which received the most “boosts” although I’ve seen some people say that it may take into account the number of “favorites” the post receives. It’s a fairly different concept from Lemmy.

I’m hoping that the Fediverse thrives, even at a smaller scale. I’m so done with major corporate social media. Speaking of which, tomorrow is being called a day to switch from the corporate ones to the independent ones, like Reddit -> Lemmy, Twitter -> Mastodon, Instagram -> Pixelfed, etc.

For sure, I think that this is a good evaluation of the situation. Different instances have different cultures and I wish more people would come to that realization and act accordingly. I think that this has been one of the stumbling blocks of federated group discussions like Lemmy so far.

That’s a possibility too, but we’ll never know for sure until the front page subscribed algorithms are improved.

English pronunciation is completely all over the place, so much so that you frequently cannot predict how a word is supposed to be pronounced. I usually don’t pay too much attention to pronunciation errors because of that.

Ok, I agree with you more now that Trump really fouled the pool, but that still doesn’t excuse Biden essentially saying “fuck it, COVID is over, let 'er rip!”

So this brings up an interesting question: when or when not to point people’s error to them. I’d hate to think that someone would keep repeating their error simply because they’ve never been told the correct way.