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The process described and shown by the screenshots does seem a bit much for a cancellation. Suing feels disproportionate when I first hear it, but are there many other recourses to force it to become more user friendly?

The decentralization is good if you can get the numbers high enough for the individual communities to be useful, but having them concentrated creates a mini network effect, where each user is automatically exposed to all of the local communities, which would be harder to seek out and find individually. So I think there's tradeoffs, and mostly-centralized and mostly-decentralized community-instance pairing both have pros and cons.

Afaik lemmyverse gets the descriptions from the instances themselves? Publishing any "curated" description and having everyone agree on it would be.. challenging for some instances.

Instance does affect moderation policy though. For example, someone who likes the vibe of specific "controversial" instances like hexbear would likely find many instances to be dissatisfactory because many instances are defederated with it. Someone may also have strong preferences about "free speech vs safe space" kind of moderation.

General-purpose medium-sized instance is probably "good enough" (especially if picking your first instance, with a willingness to migrate later if needed), but someone will feel more at home if their preferences more closely align with the instance they're on. For example, beehaw users generally seem to love being on there from what I've seen, and I think they would feel less at home on most other instances.

There's also value in making use of an instance's local feed in some cases (less so for most general-purpose instances though!). I participate in aussie.zone regularly, and at times it's a pain to use from a remote instance. For example, if I want to submit a new post, I have to manually check several loosely-related communities to make sure it hasn't already been posted to the instance (cross-posting intra-instance is not ideal imo). If I were a local instance user, I could just check the local feed, which most of the time I just end up doing anyway because it's faster than checking several communities manually. It would definitely be easier for me in that regard if I just migrated there or had started there to begin with.

Did we read the same article?

In areas where three or four of the major supermarkets have a presence, Coles or Woolies (or both) are still dominant.

In other words, there are options but consumers aren't taking them.

There is no protesting in Ba Sing Se Melbourne.

organic food for your brain

High quality, positive content boosts mental health

Browsing shallow memes and political outrage here is basically just home-made junk food instead of store-bought junk food. Likely less unhealthy, but that's not exactly eating a bowl of vegetables lol - that would perhaps be reading a book or something. Not a great fit for the comparison imo.

(as an aside, it seems plausible that junk food in small quantities as part of a balanced diet might boost mental health vs strictly never indulging)

I imagine protests will continue until morale improves lol

There's certainly an irony in commenting on it, seemingly without first reading it 🫠

Dictator-Dan memes aside, I'm not thrilled about the ongoing trend of increasingly harsh protest suppression.

I see the "FTP" and just think of File Transfer Protocol lmao

Every time this situation comes up, I think of this comic: https://www.instagram.com/p/B7g51mwgGbU/

(image link for lemmy users)

Apparently the recorded all time high is 50.7 (tied between SA and WA), so 45 is rookie numbers - gotta pump that up! Tell Dutton to get on the coal! /s

Surprised you're feeling the heat already! Seemed a pretty comfortable temperature to me 😅

"Delusional Dutton" could've been part of some nice headlines. The details of the plan come across as basically gish gallop.

Is it a legal liability thing to avoid using specific words? It's hard to imagine it being bad PR to "properly" apologize (at least compared to releasing a non-apology apology statement).

The Shovel, a month ago: Teens facing social media ban relieved they’ll still be able to watch gambling ads

Other than you (if you have notifications turned on) there's gotta be close to 0 people who'll ever see this, but here's a link to the comic: https://falseknees.com/comics/247.html

Hope to see you around again in the future if/when you feel up to it - will miss you a little in the meantime!

I feel like your preference makes sense when aligned from the perspective of a conventional forum-like platform. However I'd argue that that's missing a core part of what kbin is/was -- and by extension what Mbin is -- which is the microblog integration alongside the forum-like stuff. With that context in mind, boosts (or whatever term you want to use for "retweet") make sense to integrate imo.

Whether or not you think Mbin should try to integrate the microblog side of things is of course a subjective - I personally think it's a cool idea to try at least, but with how dominant lemmy has become it can be difficult to reconcile differences and incompatibilities between it and other software like Mbin.