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I don’t like seeing Bluesky next to Mastodon in such context, but at least they’re calling out that Bluesky is not decentralized, and I’m happy Mastodon is mentioned in larger outlet’s articles.

I think you are underestimating the effect. I’ve learned a whole lot in my year and a half here. Enough to develop a decent understanding of what’s going on and what concrete actions I could take in my corner of the world. I think we can’t expect action without understanding of why act and what action. I think discussions here help with that. For all the people who post and comment, there are many who read, learn go find out more, and so on. Some of those would take action that they wouldn’t have otherwise. If we don’t platform that do this, if all there is are corporate platforms that keep people unaware of even the basics of what’s happening beyond the reporting, then the number of people who’d act in some productive way would be even lower.

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Oof, heavy shade. Well done! Makes the Fediverse sound cooler.

Since the project is already okay with Github, perhaps a set of polls in Github with this feature, linked far and wide in Lemmy.

That’s a great point and a really low hanging fruit that would likely help with adoption and retention. The defaults weren’t great for me either.

If people went as far as registering in a Lemmy instance, they clearly have some affinity towards the Fediverse. Getting through Fediverse to work nicely for them is what bridges the gap. It’s the same with anything people do. Better defaults is a trivial low hanging fruit that can help perhaps significantly.

There’s faster ways to get data. We can do a few surveys on existing users. We’ll get hundreds of responses easily. Perhaps multiple surveys, one for each setting.

Thank your for your service. 🙏 Building a community takes work. Let’s hope this one is more resilient to corpo-lobotomize than Reddit, Digg and Slashdot.

Yes

Keep us updated as you get more working.

The Fediverse is the great equalizer. You’ll have to do with upvotes, words and emojis. 😂

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I apologize for centrist-slandering you. 😂

People bash centrism because centrism has allowed ever increasing wealth inequality that’s creating the material conditions for the fascism we see descending around us. Centrism is unsustainable. Many of us have realized how the process works and why the downward spiral can only be reversed by moving away from centrism. I’m not here to argue or discuss so please don’t reply defending it, it’ll be waste of time. 🥹 I’m explaining why you see centrism bashing comics.

Yes. I don’t remember which instance did this but I remember I encountered it some time ago.

Can vouch for this. I learned a thing or two from people who had the patience to explain. Including some ML people. @Cowbee@lemmy.ml for example has nerves of steel. Permanent snark isn’t useful but it’s understandable, especially coming from people who are being actively harmed. Repeating the same things over and over without frustration isn’t something everyone can do.

Are you aware that when they use the term liberalism, they likely mean economic liberalism?

And the harm reduction comes in the form of removing parts of the economy from capitalist control, which is … anti-capitalist.

Mainstream leftist parties aren’t necessarily leftist, especially economically leftist. E.g. the Democratic party in the US.