I just banned like 6 of them, dead or no-content accounts.

Liberals using bot accounts to try to manipulate public opinion (as they do on reddit and the rest of the western internet), is gonna be one of the bigger problems in the fediverse for the foreseeable future, so we have to stay ahead of it.

At this point they’re just targeting specific ppl like @Cowbee@lemmy.ml, but they’ll eventually start doing it en masse.

The core function of lemmy, is following communities, either built around a topic, region, or anything else.

The core function of mastodon, is following people.

The only way to make microblogging tolerable, IMO is to follow “topic-based” accounts. I might be interested in what a person thinks about a topic, but I’m not interested in what food they ate that day.

There’s also the issue of overwhelming feeds: not everyone can be a celebrity, and there’s a limit to the number of people we can hold in our heads and follow, before our entire day is wrecked. I can’t use most microblogging because its just too overwhelming, and I don’t care about celebrities outside of a few writers or academics.

Zenz-maxxing

This will be in lemmy 1.0

Yes, you can block users, communities, or use the subscribed view and don’t subscribe to them.

Such good soundtracks, like almost every one of them puts you in that era.

Liberalism is the ideology of the ruling capitalist class, and supports their “freedom” to extract surplus value from wage workers.

It has many defenders (a few even among the working class!), just like feudalism / monarchism had some peasant-class defenders.

Anyways the class contradictions between workers and capitalists are irreconcilable, are there is no sense trying to “unite” with our exploiters and class enemies.

The U.S. Did Not Defeat Fascism in WWII, It Discreetly Internationalized It

Gottem

Same, I use endeavorOS. Its just arch with a nice installer.

😯 why is this not a thing yet.

Nope, peaceful protests have never worked at any point in history, and you are sold that they do, because it serves the interest of those in power who do not want to be challenged.

• Red Phoenix - Pacifism - How to do the enemy’s job for them. Youtube Audiobook

Bullies target the defenseless, and always pick weak targets. So unarmed protestors who pose no threat, are going to get attacked far quicker than an armed and disciplined group.

But unfortunately US cops can kill anyone with impunity so no one is safe even if they do defend themselves.

Depends on the instance. A lot of instances let themselves be overrun by US reddit reposters, filling every community, and they moderate none of it.

At least on lemmy.ml we try to keep US content quarantined to US-specific communities.

That’s a really long AI post that I’m not reading.

Most of these concerns are being alleviated by all the work @nutomic@lemmy.ml is putting into join-lemmy.org , which is our centralized onboarding site.

If you have suggestions there, you can open up issues on https://github.com/LemmyNet/joinlemmy-site

No, other apps like matrix and XMPP suit this need better, and have already put thousands of hours of work into perfecting secure group chats.

Mods / admins can link those groups, or email addresses in their community sidebars.

@nutomic@lemmy.ml brought up https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/5871 , which would at least be a way for communities to explicitly link to each other, and we could possibly create a superset of Subscribed.

In 1.0 there is the Suggested filter, where admins have a preset / chosen list of curated communities they like, and a way to view all the posts from them.

I’d rather not do complicated algorithms to try to figure out interest / community adjacency based on user activity, as this could get really complicated and also probably show things people don’t want to see.

I totally agree that content discovery could be better, but I’d like it to be explicitly chosen by the user, rather than generated. So I think the best way is still just to go to the communities page, and click subscribe on anything that might potentially interest you.

We will have community-created post tags in 1.0, but its not possible to filter by these yet.

Specific content filtering can get incredibly convoluted though, and I’d like to keep it as simple as possible.

Use the lemmy github, and have the developer reach out directly, not by proxy. We can help them there.

Vote manipulation from certain instances is one of the biggest problems on lemmy currently. Its why we’ve allowed admins only to view votes.