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That's cool but I think that's too technical for the average social media user

Simply put your Mastodon profile URL into the search.

Eg. https://europe.pub/u/luislavena@mastodon.social

But it works better the other way around

No perfect solution for this currently, unfortunately.

But let the information flow. Create a post and look for feedback if people would be interested in a specific community on the topic of the textbook. There are a lot of scientists here, so there is surely a space for your topic.

Not right now, unfortunately. But it looks like tags like on Reddit are planned in the future. Right now I'd just create a post with the specific question. There are helpful people, for sure. :)

Proposed solution 3: Communities following communities

Really, really like that idea!

Is this real??

Probably in Grok already

Maybe !math@lemmy.world ?

No I mean the big social Networks with centralized management. Like Reddit, Facebook,...

Net neutrality

To my knowledge net neutrality only covers internet providers and not search engines or other platforms.

That's sad

So let's repost all of the popular Reddit content here ;D

Would your friends stay exclusively on Discord if they would ban you?

I'd imagine they would be ready to join another platform to stay in touch with you. And I don't mean that they'll immediately stop using Discord completely but use both simultaneously.

Something being free and open source doesn't mean it's good

True. But it's verifiable.

It's FOSS and you've looked at the code and found it to live up to its claims of being secure?

Popular FOSS projects get audited all the time. Heck, there is even automated software to detect anomalies in code changes.

Auditability is the only reason why you can only really trust open source but not closed source. With proprietary software you'll always have to trust the developers to not do something shady and are competent enough. With open source you can simply verify it.

Also being open source is what usually makes popular FOSS more stable and secure than most closed counterparts. A LOT of people donate their work and since it's completely public, most want their contributions to be in good shape. If only a few or no other people see your code, you are tempted to write bad code a lot more. This of course is not always the case but more often than not.

Also in most developed countries it's illegal to purposefully introduce manipulated code. And I don't think most people would risk punishment for that if literally anybody could find it.

I'm trying to show that the particulars of why you like or prefer something matter.

Sure. But most people don't care about the details, unfortunately. In the case of messaging they just want to communicate. And if someone asks me, which platform I'd recommend I will always start with the most secure and private.

That's why I specifically wrote "completely public" not "private".

I think most people know that a discord server with a few hundred or thousand members can hardly be considered private. But I can imagine that there are people who don't want to put it directly online for everybody to find on Google. Not that I like that.

How about crossposting stuff from reddit there to get the engagement up?

Lemmy communities are basically forums. So let's post and interact more here. :)

Is this the comment or just the mod message? If it's just the mod message what was the comment?

why anyone would use it as a forum

That's what I also would like to know. It's such a bad platform for it.

Let's hope so