"bigger piece of garbage" is a strong word. However I do think that Lemmy is too homogenous politically, making it an echo chamber, which is objectively a bad thing.
You can see how eager the vegans brigade you when you say anything bad about PETA.
The same goes to the militant atheists (an irony by itself) commenting all the news of Pope's death with insults.
To these people, there's no nuance. Capitalism is nothing but greed. All religions are a bunch of pedophile rings. Meat industry should be abolished. Everything is black and white, there's no in-between.
Honestly, I'm sick of this myself. Everything has to align with their political view as if that political view defines their whole identity and they'd be nobody without it.
To the cowards who are about to downvote this, I dare you to actually comment. Come on, throw shit at me and get it out of your system.
Currently, credibility is verified in centralized manner for good reasons. One of them is to keep the shams out of the game. Sadly, such system has been abused rampantly.
Such issue wouldn't be as prevalent on Lemmy due to the casual nature of things, but if the stakes are to be raised, then it would really become a problem. Just look at how people have tried to abuse the very system we're using.
The voting manipulation comes to mind, with rogue instances being created just for the purpose of mobilizing an army of bot in the form of users. Since the very people doing the exploits were the ones running the instances, and the bot users were created in these rogue instances, the good instances (such as the one you're using and the one I'm using) had no control. The could create millions of users if they want to and if the resource allows it, and there's nothing any of us can do about it. They could the use these bot users to either raise a post to the front of your feed, or downvote it to oblivion. The one thing that can be done is to defederate from these rogue instances one way or another.
This is just one example. I'm sure there are many more vulnerabilities out there. Maybe in time, the fediverse would become more and more mature against such thread model. Switching to instance whitelisting for federation policy has proved to be effective against the one I just mentioned.
One thing that we can probably start with instead is to have independent journals, and maybe they can support one and another. The question would then be: how would they earn the credibility that our community can trust?
I used something like that back when I had scheduled medication. It's really convenient, especially if you have to be outside when you're taking the med. Tho sitting unused most of the time now, I still have mine, made of brass with brushed finish, smells metalic but looks dope.
Perhaps just have it there and then have spotify & jellyfin outside of that? Can the xmb ui have custom menu or something?