It also underlines what the OP is saying. The average user doesn't need to do anything or think about anything special to use the platform. Simply making an account and interacting with whatever is on front of you will work.
It's only complicated if you're constantly comparing it to reddit in your head and trying to recreate the exact experience here.
Yes but that's only relevant if you're aware of a specific community on a specific instance and expect to be interacting with it on purpose.
It's completely irrelevant if someone just gives you the name of an instance, tells you to make an account on it and start using. You'll be perfectly fine reading and commenting whatever's in your feed.
The only way this breaks is if you're in an instance that is too small to have local traffic while having technical difficulties with federation. If the instance is active enough or it's federating normally, someone completely unaware of the concept of federation will be perfectly fine as long as they understand the interface.
Mods made a poll to ask whether to extend the blackout or re-open. After accusations of brigading, mods created a second, more secure poll. The option to extend the blackout wins by a 18% margin. However, the top mod changes his mind, unilaterally decides that the sub should open, and threatens the rest of the mods with...
I keep running into comments where users are arguing for avoiding Lemmy, claiming that Lemmy supports authoritarian governments, supports the CCP, sides with Russia in their invasion of Ukraine, denies genocides committed by nominal communist governments, and other similar political claims. I know there are communist instances...
A legal campaign against universities and think tanks seeks to undermine the fight against false claims about elections, vaccines and other hot political topics.
Great idea. Give scientists studying how political bullshitting works fresh material to study. I'm sure they are trembling in their shorts in fear of this very specific research data coming their way.
I see many communities that got started in the last ten days. Sadly, some that I'm most interested in are not that active. Some are not active at all....
If Neuralink can prove its device is safe in humans, it would still potentially take more than a decade for the start-up to secure commercial use approval
I don't want any current human to have anything to do with it. The average human's comprehension of life, consciousness, what it is to be human etc are so far behind ideal, I wouldn't trust anyone currently alive to start testing a direct brain-computer interface.
In several hundred years when we have Trek style space communism, sure!
Sadly, language is a bit iffy when it comes to internalizing.
Unless you learn a language when you're a child, and ideally starting before you're ten, you won't get instinctive enough to match a native speaker's. That's just how our brain development works.
There's a special linguistic plasticity which is the language learning instinct that's fully active until we're ten or so and gradually declines and pretty much stops when we're in our early twenties.
What you learn until then is used by the language centers of your brain and is more or less reflexive. You don't need to think about it to use it, like walking.
After that, we can only learn languages intellectuality, which means we do have to think about it and deliberately listen and speak (or read and write obviously) using our prefrontal cortex.
Maybe one day we'll invent a technology or some medical treatment to turn it back on in later life.
One captured Russian soldier says he worries about what will happen if he is returned to Russia in a prisoner swap. “If I have the opportunity, I’ll refuse to be exchanged." Another fighter reported that a doctor declared him unfit for combat after he was wounded in March, but his commander ordered him back to the front.
I legit started studying social psychology to understand this and similar phenomena. It's going slow but I hope to have a working understanding in a few years.
They will drown us out even if they don't want in that case. Them just using the service normally will flood all our feeds with posts from their service based on the sheer number of them.
It definitely is the root cause of this problem. There's no maybe. The faster the political center accepts this fact, the more of a hope we have of surviving this shit show.
Don't get me wrong, I don't have any hope of this happening.
I'm just absolutely sure that we're not getting out of this mess unless the average centrist voter in the west stops being protective of capitalism as a knee jerk reaction.
Unchecked capitalism is the cause of all this. As long as we put money first, there's no mitigating this. To go from a money first to a people first mindset, the average person needs to understand and accept the root cause, and reconcile with the fact that they are a large part of the problem not through their carbon footprint or waste management skills but through their political stances and voting habits.
Andrew Tate charged with rape and human trafficking (www.bbc.com)
Andrew Tate charged with rape, human trafficking and forming organised crime group to sexually exploit women
Remove one letter from the title of a video game; what is the plot now?
Final Fantas - people fighting over the last cans of Fanta in the world....
The what now? (lemmy.world)
y'all ever frolic before????
[rant] Why is this so hard for people?
Can I just rant a little to you all?...
I've felt more compelled to contribute to the "Fediverse" than I ever did on Reddit.
Over the last week or so I have noticed that I have a lot more fun engaging in discussions on here as opposed to reddit....
The immediate future of the subreddit [r/chess] is in question after our latest subreddit poll. Results and the situation so far (www.reddit.com)
Mods made a poll to ask whether to extend the blackout or re-open. After accusations of brigading, mods created a second, more secure poll. The option to extend the blackout wins by a 18% margin. However, the top mod changes his mind, unilaterally decides that the sub should open, and threatens the rest of the mods with...
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OotL: What's the deal with people claiming Lemmy as a whole supports the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), dictatorships, denies genocides, etc?
I keep running into comments where users are arguing for avoiding Lemmy, claiming that Lemmy supports authoritarian governments, supports the CCP, sides with Russia in their invasion of Ukraine, denies genocides committed by nominal communist governments, and other similar political claims. I know there are communist instances...
G.O.P. Targets Researchers Who Study Disinformation Ahead of 2024 Election (archive.ph)
What are some good names to call Lemmy users?
Title....
Are you doing your part?
I see many communities that got started in the last ten days. Sadly, some that I'm most interested in are not that active. Some are not active at all....
Brain chips to be tested on humans this year, Elon Musk says (www.jpost.com)
If Neuralink can prove its device is safe in humans, it would still potentially take more than a decade for the start-up to secure commercial use approval
Who even uses Celsius (programming.dev)
"I’m beginning to understand that we’re not on the right side" - Russian soldiers who surrendered say morale on the Russian side is very low (web.archive.org)
One captured Russian soldier says he worries about what will happen if he is returned to Russia in a prisoner swap. “If I have the opportunity, I’ll refuse to be exchanged." Another fighter reported that a doctor declared him unfit for combat after he was wounded in March, but his commander ordered him back to the front.
Meta's decentralized social plans confirmed. Is Embrace-Extend-Extinguish of the Fediverse next? (reb00ted.org)
Crazy Coincidence (lemmy.world)
Global temperatures briefly spike above key climate threshold, scientists warn of more extremes (www.pbs.org)