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Uh... "yes".

It takes a mome-- and done!

Omg ofc there is!:-)

Upvoting bc response but dayum, I am so sorry to hear that.:-( You are a friendly person who is so considerate to others, so I know you will get back on your feet again soon. Though various markets especially tech (I don't know your career but this is Lemmy so that seems to be >=80% likely:-) isn't great so indeed, brace yourself. With effort, and only the tiniest bit of luck, you got this! 😁

Excuse me, I'll just hop on over there...

Edit: hey, good to see you posting again - we missed you! ☺️

Yeah it seems like there's barely anything here for Mexico, which I guess uses just the standard sources. There is !mexico@lemm.ee, but... you see how empty that is. There is https://lemmygrad.ml/c/latinamerica but... fuck no, not on on that instance!:-P

Yeah I see !trees@sh.itjust.works at lemmy.cafe, though I don't see trees@lemmy.world so perhaps nobody there has subscribed to it yet, anyway ymmv. And I see !animepics@reddthat.com, but you may want to check your specific communities.

Damn, lemmy.cafe is somehow even running 0.19.6-beta.9. Is this too good to be true - is this a trap?:-) Or is the instance admin that much on the ball?

Click "Blocked" at https://lemmy.cafe/instances - they barely block anything except those big 3. Unless they do it without it appearing there, which is possible, but highly doubtful. In any case it looks awesome from that perspective.

Also the welcoming messages at the top of the server are amazing - "Have you installed ublock origin?", "check out !newtolemmy@lemmy.ca", etc.

Mbin I think doesn't "block" even places such as Chapotraphouse - or at least Kbin did not - but it uses an entirely alternative voting scheme with "favorites" rather than upvotes and "reduces" rather than downvotes. That means that the popularity of something is only determined by the people on other Mbin/Kbin servers, with the upvote information still visible but not used by the sorting schemes. Also, the identity of people who use "reduces" against you are visible, so you can block them rather than have to suffer in silence, if they are super annoying about it e.g. reducing everything you've done without regards to its content. But yeah, I don't know about actually hiding messages from people from particular instances - that's what we are wanting here, and I imagine that if it is not doable now then it hopefully would be in the works?

I also don't think I want Mastodon... or maybe I do? But anyway I don't think we need it from the same account. Lemmy is topic-based rather than person-centered and that seems to make the most sense to me. Likewise Discord and Slack, but those are more unwieldy e.g. not indexed by search engines (such as DuckDuckGo, what else would I mean by that?:-P).

PieFed sounds the best in theory due to high integration with all those other services. Unless I end up not using or wanting those other services? I haven't so far... then again they're all so brand-new.

Sublinks sounds really exciting - you can even view a working demo - as it has been for the last half year with no updates that I've seen. Perhaps any day now... maybe...

And until my instance upgraded from 0.19.3 to 0.19.5 I enjoyed the Lemmy web UI. Now I dislike it - for a long reply (as I am wont to make myself:-D) up and downvote counts can be multiple (and variable!) screen rolls / pages away from the buttons on the bottom, and sometimes are on the right of the screen while other times on the left, having been wrapped around by a long name - go home UI, u r drunk! 😜

dubvee.org has iirc a single owner, which is usually not a sign of stability - but damn it is impressive! https://dubvee.org/about he did it all, then doesn't even accept donations for it and guides people to give to other projects instead - that's the opposite of capitalism, not just making fun of capitalism as people do on lemmy.ml constantly but rather living one's literal and actual life according to one's principles. Also I think he's stated somewhere that he'll switch to Sublinks rather than Lemmy as the backend when it's ready. So... it's a strong option as well, if a bit outside of the Lemmy ecosphere, and yet fully within the Fediverse and fully compatible with Lemmy, plus like PieFed additional multimedia enhancements of its own.

It's straws on the backs of straws, all the way down...

Tbf, I think a certain minimum amount of intelligence is required to even qualify for that statement, which I suspect disqualifies most... but yeah, underneath that, there do seem to be a few, like Jeff Bezos.

Though Donald Trump himself I see more like a monkey doing its thing, as much a symptom as a feed-forward cause of his own. I ain't saying that he's not "evil" in his own way, just that he lacks sufficient character for his brand of it to have had any effect at all, if it weren't for the fact that the systems were so broken to begin with. Money (his father's in his case) corrupts.

N-n-nuh uh! It was always a guy, I just helped reveal that truth!

(Whoosh)

It doesn't work, bc no matter how many you put on, it always needs more cowbell.

Bold of you to assume that most people even want that. From what I can tell...

Sigh... yup. Much of that has been traced back and shown to not have originated from inside the USA, but it does not matter how it started bc it's endemic now. And regardless of the rhetoric the news itself is pretty violent, with all the reporting of mass shootings - you know, bc they actually happened, except most of the time the for-profit news media doesn't bother anymore, and instead prefers to sell something sexier than all the needless deaths of children.

But you can't wake someone up if they refuse to come into the door in the first place - that is what I meant about labeling content to make it more acceptable to a mainstream audience, so as to boost subscriber counts and thereby increase the overall health of the Fediverse. Being okay with stagnation seems unwise to me, bc it predicates a fall.

Well said.:-)

And younger ones too!

1+1=2... but one WHAT!?

Except then you get quantum mechanics, and math either no longer models reality, or reality itself doesn't follow math, except conversely math is the only thing that it does follow (sometimes). 😜

One of my sentences there was a hypothetical written as if that were the case yes, but I did note that you were not from there, and the rest pertains to people trying to communicate with communities on that instance. Anyway, do whatever you want - I tried to offer an interesting counterexample but I'm not going to try to brow-beat you with anything. This isn't Reddit - we can leave those modes behind us, if we want.

I thought I was left-wing myself, then realized that I may as well be a right-wing nut compared to global standards!:-D

But it takes time for people to learn and change. Mainstream people in the USA may still have valuable contributions to make here, like funny cartoons for us all to laugh at, and thus I decry how they are pushed away due to the extremist content on the Fediverse.

After watching Innuendo Studios' The Alt Right Playbook, I just cannot listen to hexbears anymore. Those attempts to bully people in just about every conversation with "tactics" other than relying on the logical truths of the issues themselves just really turns me away.

Be careful - your circumstances surely differ from mine, with like your family and job and such - but I note that they are far more likely to change you than the reverse. It's just how that works.

!newtolemmy@lemmy.ca! I wish a lot more posts would go there, but sadly it is still the most recent one after all this time.

And then ultimately math, which is somehow both the ultimate unreality, yet simultaneously the only thing that is real.