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I lost this belief for myself. Anonymous people usually don't have enough respect towards each other to actually make a change.

Online discussions are mostly either about "winning" or just getting so annoyed that you don't want to continue anymore.

Especially the antisemitic conspiracy crowd have integrated their beliefs so deeply into their identity, that lighthearted conversation will not shake them.

I have empathy or atleast understanding for these people, especially when they talk about their life story and upbringing. In the end tho, it doesn't really matter. Many people are even self-aware to a degree about their mental flaws, but simply are too broken to even seek help.

For many political ideology is simply an escape from reality. Some watch anime, some talk to random people online, some get into weird shit.

Some questions are overasked tho in certain communities. I remember for example on r/AskMiddleEast that people where asking what the people's thoughts on Ataturk were, multiple times a day, sometimes even multiple time in an hour.

I was on that sub for only a month and people were doing this everyday. Some seemed genuinely curious, some played it up for the meme, but it still never stopped. Apparently this has been going even long before I joined.

In the end I left the sub, because the sub always had the same 5 posts on repeat constantly, even the comments and debates played out everytime exactly the same, to the point where people were just giving copy-pasted responses from previous discussions to each other.

I can understand, why someone would perhaps answer with "just google it" in this case.

Though the more healthy thing for this type of person would be to just log off and stop getting annoyed by reading through the same questions again and again and do something entirely new.

The Swiss Alps will protect his online data.

I think that beehaw guy was more against the "DESTROYED by FACTS and LOGIC" culture, that you see among self-proclaimed "rationalists", that use half-baked and deceptive statistics and half-truths to mask their hate and pride behind a facade of fairness and logic to be more appealing to normal people.

"Rationalism" is weird and misguided way to describe this for sure tho.

The moderation aspect is mostly irrelevant imo. Most recommended instances allow any content. NSFW and politics are the two major faultlines here.

For NSFW, make a second account on lemmynsfw. Most people on reddit also typically don't use their main account to watch porn, so this is reasonable I think.

For politics, all general purpose instances are mostly fine, so you probably don't even need a second account for that.

If you have extremely passionate political views tho, then another account specialized towards your brand of politics is probably needed. Normal people don't want to read posts romanticising or denying genocides, concentration camps or gulags after all.

Redditors making political posts are likely no stranger to getting banned anyways, and are used to creating new accounts constantly, so having one more account is probably not a big deal.

I personally got banned so many times on the r/AskMiddleEast sub for believing that democracy and secularism are good things and that war is bad. Someone even made a poll there and almost every user of that sub had been banned at least once (even the mods ban each other). That sub made me realize that online politics is a waste of time, but that's a different topic.

Ich bin ein Amerikaner

How about Metaverse as a new name?

In the long term this will happen tho. If the fediverse becomes more popular, you will definitely have a small handful of powerful instances (either led by foundations or companies) in the center of everything. That's simply how the internet works.

If you don't like the mainstream, you can join a defederated instance, that does not want to play with the big dogs.

The only way to keep the fediverse as federated as possible, would be perhaps forcing every community and every user to create their instance. This would probably keep even more people away from the fediverse tho.

As long as you point towards the easiest way to join the fediverse first, while only "selling" federation as a feature for power users and people who are genuinely interested, then it doesn't really matter how complicated the fediverse really is.

If your mom wants you to make her an email account, you don't explain her how the entire mail system works, along with its history and while reciting a Richard Stallman manifesto about FOSS philosophy. You also don't send her a link with 100 different email service providers, that all have their own small advantages or disadvantages, while also explaining her how to create her own mail service.

No, you just make her a Gmail account.

I think the official Mastodon app does a great job at simplifying on how to join mastodon. You have a big blue button that lets you join mastodon.social by default, while a smaller grey button is for users, that want another instance. I'm sure you could simplify this even more, but this is a great beginning.

I think cheeseburger.social/c/@vlemmy.com would just be a cached copy in this case. Communities founded on dead instances don't get updated across instances anymore (maybe I am wrong tho)

It would be worse than the burning of the library of Alexandria. So much data stored on Youtube, Gdrive, Google Photos, Gmail etc etc etc would be lost forever, without backups for probably most of it.

The Internet Archive and some US agency (I think it was the NSA) have backups for a lot of the public-facing data. But lots of data would simply be lost media forever as well.

I wonder tho, if some artworks that have been saved only on Google servers, will live on solely through AI algorithms, that have included these in their datasets.

Google will never die, at least not all at once. If Google were to die sometime in the future, it would die a very slow death, with all there side-businesses being slowly sold off one by one. Plenty of time to switch to alternatives and to save all your important data (which you should probably do always regardless)

That fact that social media babies have already grown up, horrifies me as well. I feel so old just reading this headline...

Theoretically it shows the communities with the highest subscriber count first.

Right now tho it seems, that Lemmy is bad at fetching the real subscriber counts of other instances. For example I get this result, when searching for Linux on this account right now.

Every sub-count besides the one of my home-instance is terribly outdated, thus it favors the home-instance community. This is probably not the intent of the developers tho.