A lot of people get ants in their pants over the idea of people talking about the same or similar things in different places, for some reason. Decentralization's just a buzz word, I guess.
Kichae
joined 2 years ago
Well, they're on different websites, for one. That context, despite what many here want to believe, is meaningful.
Carney has a reputation for being a Keynesian, as far as I know, which means we should hope to see a new wave of federal investment in infrastructure and a topping up of social programs. The wave of painting him as "every CEO's best buddy" seems really weird in that context, because the CEO's mantra since Regan has been "austerity and tax cuts".
Like, yes, he's not going to overthrow the system, but maybe Loretto should spend more time talking smack about the NDP's choices in the last eight years rather than complaining that the party of the system isn't radical enough to upend it.
I'm so tired of the leftist obsession with the Liberals, and how our constant attempts to be "right" do more to empower the far right at the expense of the centre than they do to bolster the left in any meaningful way.
It's like the whole movement is built on being a wet blanket.
Hey b'y! How she goin'? Originally from Sydney Forks, currently living in Halifax. Welcome to Lemmy!
It totally depends on how many people one needs in a community, and how much content they're posting to feel served, doesn't it?
The persistent FOMO that has floated around Lemmy for the past two years has not been a positive for the space.
It's not "instance tribalism", it's making sure the website you're using isn't just some dumb terminal, and preventing the network from collapsing down to "lemmy.world and some empty tributes".
It's creating a space that is resilient to network splits, and accepting the fact that, at some point down the road, network splits will happen.
It's seeing the fediverse through a "Local+" lens, and encouraging people to treat their local site as meaningful. And rejecting the illusion that this is centralized social media.
Look for what you want on other sites. But there's no reason to look off-site first, if what serves you is already hosted locally.
Welcome, new neighbours!
While checking out this wacky new space, I'd like to emcourage everyone to check out the Local tab, either at the top of your feed, or in your app menu. That's where yoi'll find posts from "communitues" (Lemmy's "subreddits") that are hosted on lemm.ee!
A lot of communities are on different sites, and are ported (tarriff free!) for your enjoyment, but as with most things, it seems, the most sustainable way forward is to support Local!
One thing that many people new to Lemmy and the wider "fediverse" (because it's not just people on Lemmy-based websites that you'll find posting in the communities here, surprisingly enough) struggle with is that each website on the network has its own "name space", meaning that each community name can be used on each site. So, you can have, say, [email protected], [email protected], and [email protected]. People often fret over "having to follow all of them", and wanting ways to collapse them into a single forum. And for a really niche topic, that might make sense (the thing to do, though, is just pick the one that best serves you and don't worry about what's going on on the other side of the fence). But for bigger topics, this "splintering" is often a godsend, since we can all have real discussions about the topic in smaller spaces. And, of course, !politics is going to just be meanibgfully different on .ca vs .ee vs .world.
If you look to local first, it becomes much easier to stop worrying and love the ~~bomb~~ distributed network.
Welcome from Halifax! I hope you guys can get a good little community going here!
There are solutions for the far arctic that aren't high density mesh networks polluting low earth orbit.
It's very similar to RSS in concept, just two way!
We do not need a constellation. We do not need more space junk.
We need fibre everywhere.
You should understand the rules of the places you are posting to, yes.
This is why "let's pretend this is centralized social media and ignore the fact that we're all on different websites" is a bad idea, actually. You don't get to parachute into someone else's house and expect the rules of your own home apply.