Np and I can see that you’ve gotten an introduction to the political culture war that’s being waged on lemmy (assuming you weren’t already aware). Lol

One more piece of info that I wished someone had given me when I first started is that a huge majority of lemmings are cool; but there are significantly more center-right users than leftist users so you’ll see more of the vitriol you witnessed in this post coming from the center-right instances like lemmy.world and lem.ee, but the leftists are a scrappy bunch so they’ll respond in kind and mostly from hexbear; hence the defederations.

People frown upon lemmy.world because it’s a politically American center-right instance on a leftist social media platform that bans leftist discourse via defederation.

If your politics align w them and you don’t mind them deciding what you can and can’t see on your behalf, you’ll do fine there.

I switched from lemmy.world because of that and switched to an instance that doesn’t make a habit of defederating from the most active instances (ie hexbear) and there’s also another center-right instance named lemm.ee that also doesn’t defederate.

None of the reddit user diasporas made a dent on reddit’s usage, but people did start using other platforms.

Like tiktok’s ban: it’s not going to move people anywhere else because most people have multiple social media accounts thanks to marketing and that’s what this is.

There’s a strong chance he’d enjoy it; so maybe it’s best not to just to spite him. Lol

do you know where i can find remotes and secrets?

Have you given up on lemmy? Lol

This.

The leftist instances have a good mix of leftists and liberals that are brave enough to do what they’re told not to do.

the former is always confused for the latter; especially on lemmy.

I can speak on immigrants from Central America because we sponsored 7 families (aunts & uncles) growing up and I ended up going to school w my cousins who didn’t speak English.

They did REALLY well in science, math, physics, biology, history & sociology because the schools that they came from had significantly higher standards, so they coasted until the American students caught up to them years later; but did poorly w literature, English, social studies, & civics for obvious reasons. (I grew up in small town USA and the racist teachers tried to fail some of them, but couldn’t since their excellent grades in the hard sciences made up for their failure grades in the soft sciences). (They also got into more fights at school by the racist bullies).

They were young enough so that they were completely fluent in English by the time they graduated high school and I hope that I likewise can become fluent in Spanish when I emigrate after the American fascists ruin everything.

i admire the effort; im their opposite in that i just go with vanilla whatever so it’s nice to see a beautiful & still very functional face every once-and-a-while.

the last time i put this much effort into my workspace, i created a LCARS interface and regretting not code versioning it right away.

greybeards (pardon the sexism) are always either beautiful maximalists/minimalists (like here) or just go w vanilla whatever for some reason.

mastodon is probably following the same path; it’s not very decentralized either and probably the first thing to enshittify on the fediverse. (assuming other fediverse islands haven’t already with things like bots on .world).

you’d think so, like i did; but i’m learning that it’s easy to get caught up in the moment when it comes to social media.

i’ve been learning the lessons of social media enshittification since the day’s of icq & bbs, some like the author described; but there’s always some new thing/feature/enticement to draw you in further and you end up learning that lesson the hard way all over again, but from a different angle/perspective/approach.

the author mentions things related to social-cohesion/group-dynamics so maybe he’s using artwork that represents the lack thereof? since, in aoe2; you can control the way all of your units can work, except for the villagers.

the author might be right about mastodon, but they’re wrong about bluesky; it’s significant financial backing guarantees that it will eventually enshittify in at least one of the ways that the author wrote. so much so that even it’s primary creator, dorsey, left once he realized that me made another mistake in bluesky as he did with twitter.

It is for hexbear since it means that others whose post there aren’t counted if their primary instance isn’t hexbear

and it also doesn’t include the people who aren’t on hexbear; but still posting there.

In the case of “frequently defederated”? Or in General?

both. lol

i think it’s a symptom of the sensibilities of genz clashing with older generations; sort of like millennials clashing with boomers but to a MUCH more significant degree.

Looking at FediDB (which seems a little broken), it seems like Lemmy.World is tripling their monthly posts.

you can see how well above it’s weight hexbear is punching when it comes to active users; communities like slop, badposting, and chapotraphouse in particular.

i suspect that hexbear is the most active instance on lemmy by far; but if it wont be good for you if you can’t handle genz/gena sensibilities or are not atleast vehemently anti-capitalist.

americans like to make up a shit about their past; there never was an old wild west.