For mine and a lot of niches there is :).

I don’t know.

I use microblogging platforms to connect with people who have my disability, which includes lots of cognitive problems.

So the current customisation and exploration effort it takes to set up a working mastodon account is too much for most people with my illness.

An optional algorithm would help.

It’s similar in JP.

The discover feed isn’t anywhere near the “for you feed” on X, so the experience isn’t super personalised and gravitates towards us politics, as that’s the most popular thing on the platform (similarly to lemmy).

Cuz believe it or not, people tend to use microblogging platforms to connect with others in a specific niche, and mastodon currently doesnt have the userbase to host an account focused on most niches.

Despite the predictable dumpster fire of a comment section sharing this would inevitably lead too, I’m glad you shared it, it was a pleasant read.

Europe should sell ukraine energy at discounted prices.

I know the conversation is a media outlet that lets researchers publish articles, but any title that says

“researchers say…” when it’s like two academics out of a field with thousands is kind of disingenuous

On many UI’s like voyager this is a setting

To be honest brilliant seemed so cool to me like 7 years ago and I got a subscription and found that I basically learnt nothing from it even though I spent hundreds of hours.

It’s good at making you “feel” like you’re learning but it’s pretty bad at actually teaching things.

A textbook will go so much further.

read my post, not just the title.

While those are cool books you’re not going to turn a facist kid leftist by gifting them anarchist books they aren’t ever going to want to read.

Especially when their radicalisation likely came from the instant gratification of social media.

They probably feel like the odd one out. Feelings of loneliness can often lead to this kind of radicalisation. You want to make the kid feel loved. Gifting them books from your ideology is pretty much the worst thing you could do (unless it’s some sort of “side gift”). Because it’s basically screaming “I’m not going to get you anything you want unless you change for me” — aka. I do not love you unconditionally, which a kid never wants to hear

The more you try to overtly meddle the more the kid will be convinced of their beliefs, reactionaries thrive off disagreement and arguments.

Get them something normal, perhaps something the connects with nature. Your goal should be to get them to connect with you and the rest of the family, you want them too feel like they are part of the in-group.

Honestly for some specific use cases where the computer being very light is needed, this is great, but the fact every mac has this now is a little crazy.

To add to this using these two features has really helped remove a lot of the threads that were taking a toll on my mental health from my feed.

FWIW the “die” is probably more coming from german and dutch posts than english

Basic empathy idk?

I will still feel bad for someone dying if their errors lead to their death…

Yep I just tried and got “people, good, people, good, good, good, die”

An app that only lets you view, like RDX, because what usually keeps people addicted is the replies and notifications

4 $ Final Offer

The two main reasons people attack LW is:

1. people who criticise it because it is by far the largest instance, and thereby means lemmy isn’t as decentralised as it could be, I think this is a fair point, because it has caused federation issues with for example aussie.zone in the past.

2. Tankies who get mad the average lemmy.world user does not share their admiration for China, Russia, North Korea, Stalin, and Mao. Thereby accusing the whole instance of being “libs” and “bigots”.