smartwater0897

smartwater0897, 11 months ago

Great work! Can you include the instance description in this list also?

Also i would love to see country but that's doesn't seem to be included in the Lemmy app. I guess you could do a ip lookup on some service to see country if you really wanted to.

smartwater0897, 11 months ago

I'm a little bit confused by the federation thing. How would I let my instance talk to any other instance except the ones I blacklist?

smartwater0897, 11 months ago

I think it's better with less choices for beginners actually. I remember a lot of people didn't get started on mastadon because they were afraid to pick an instance.

It's almost so it would be good if this could just be a checkbox "pick a good instance for me" and it would pick a medium populated instance from the list.

smartwater0897, 11 months ago

Oh I see. I had put Lemmy.ml on the allowed list and never intended other instanced to not be allowed.

Fixed, thank you!

smartwater0897, 11 months ago

Was looking for this, thank you!

smartwater0897, 11 months ago

The fact that they can kill third party apps is exactly why we need something else.

smartwater0897, 11 months ago

I havent been on beehaw, but if you vomit from friendly and good, it says something about your own personality.

One of the most popular Mastadon instances are also lgbt. To me, its a sign that those people have a strong desire to meet others like them, and discuss their situation. Seems perfectly healthy to me.

I dont have to be there if I dont want to engage with them, just like I dont have to go to a football game if I dont like football.

I mean, cant we just all pick our tribe and let others have their tribe?

We do not have to fight eachother online.

Please read that again. The entire traditional social media is built on "engagement", which usually means to throw things that upset people into their feed so they post and react. We must try and be better than that. Its really silly. Its all just people behind all these posts, and you probably have a lot more in common with them than the billionaires owning the social media networks, and who you are literally sponsoring by using their platforms.

smartwater0897, 11 months ago

First day for me too. Seems really good so far, interesting threads and discussions.

smartwater0897, 11 months ago

Firefox. And I even installed Thunderbird again after all these years, since they are going to have a UI refresh this summer. It's a very nice nostalgic feeling to once again use a local email client.

If the new theme is good, it's going to be a keeper. :)

smartwater0897, 11 months ago

Maybe it's OK though. The big majority usually follows what is default, and then you have a minority doing something different. Linux users are like 1% and it's still enough for the community to thrive and enjoy themselves a lot. It's probably the same here, that once we reach enough users to keep things interesting, we don't actually need more users. :)

smartwater0897, 11 months ago

Reddit was also actively discouraging discussions since people would downvote anything they didn't agree with right away. Became a total echo chamber...

smartwater0897, 11 months ago

First thing I read on Lemmy and it's like I've found emotionally intelligent people finally.

I saw the same thing on Mastadon, just normal people capable of handling their emotions.

Western social media (and television) is promoting the worst in people and it can make users believe everyone is insane. So it's very nice to see this being posted.

Thanks!