Maybe it’s an accident but you left out your fellow students and the teacher, in my eyes the most useful resources

Can I blame the tech for using massive amounts of electricity, making e.g. Ireland use more fossil fuels again?

Pointlessly snarky comments are one of the worst parts of Reddit and Lemmy and I fully support mods putting a stop to that. I guess the important part is to be transparent about it

Why are we using his first name

Mastodon also has the benefit that other platforms try their best to federate with it

What I think would be cool is following hashtags from Lemmy, or a.gup.pe groups

Is Tumblr still planning on joining? That would be huge

The culture’s a bit too reddit-like for my taste, but it’s alright and some communities are better about it

I don’t even see footnotes in the documentation^[1], but they can be pretty useful. It’s ^[text], in case others are curious.

At least on Lemmy, defederating is also a way of banning all the instance’s users from your communities. If you’re constantly banning one instance’s users and their admins seem fine with it, there’s really no other way.

If you’re defederating a lot, most of it will be tiny instances you got from some blocklists, so I don’t know if this really says much

If I remember right, the game The Talos Principle calls that the Talos principle

That + mostly sticking to my subscriptions (coincidentally, none of them tech or politics) makes it feel like I’m on a completely different Lemmy

Anecdotally, the communities I’m interested in are getting more active in a way that seems sustainable (as opposed to last year, when it was a always a single person posting some, getting no responses, and leaving). I’m pretty positive about the state of Lemmy and the wider threadiverse.

Similarly, it looks like a.gup.pe groups don’t work here even though they’re basically just communities

Would make sense too, they don’t use default Gmail either. Some other governments have Mastodon instances

Instead of defederating all of lemmy.ml, just blocking that one comm could be an option

It’s like the darkest pattern. Making it so that quitting has to be a conscious choice. I see why amoral companies would use it, don’t know why FOSS would too.

That easily accessible list exists, at least. For you it’s part of lemm.ee/instances

Or because the other instance’s users keep breaking rules. I guess even then there could be an option to ban them from all your comms but still show their comms.