Not sure if social media in general has failed. That particular point can be solved at the community level.
Create or join a community which by it’s guidelines restricts posting paywalled or otherwise bad content. Which explicitly encourages posting “liberated” content. Have moderation. Problem solved. Moderators will remove all which you dislike. All that remains is the solution you want.
Many Lemmy users wish their niche communities would become more populated. For goals like that, the reputation of the platform is important. I also don’t want to get into defensive debates when revealing to someone that I use Lemmy.
Please try to form coherent sentences so I don’t have to guess what you might have meant. Or don’t. After all, it’s you who wants something here.
im talking about the 7 downvotes i have
i didn’t get 7 negative replies
Sounds as if you think you should get a reply for each vote.
Is that an attitude of expectation? No one is obliged to explain their voting behavior to you.
We can suggest to voters to also leave a comment, explaining how that would lead to an overall more pleasant experience. But you cannot demand replies.
I can imagine some of the downvotes of this comment come from this attitude, which can seem entitled and inappropriate.
Started smoking cigarettes.
Good idea! Checked and found: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3042
Add a “disable inbox replies” option of posts and comments #3042
You can support the issue by leaving a thumbs up or a comment.
Copy thread url, paste it into an incognoto mode browser that’s not logged into the instance.
I think you get the same result using the colorful button, which each post and comment has:
Ah, thank you.
No, grouping by tag is currently not supported.
The feature request pops up frequently, and there are corresponding open issues on GitHub.
I would also like to have this. I’m not sure how soon if ever it gets implemented.
I understand this is not your intent, but the question might help clarify your intent:
Why don’t you visit a specific community which is dedicated to your keyword of interest? How would that be different from what you want?
there’s something in our consciousness that gives you identity and defines who you are
Identity, personality, soul … I feel these terms are somewhat synonymous, if we exclude the spiritual connation, which I’d like to.
why you perceive the flow of time and the sequence of events that happens to a specific person (you).
Not sure what that means or wether that question makes sense. As I see it, all the above mentioned synonyms emerge from the brain doing it’s thing. A human brain working under normal condition creates a ‘you perceive the flow’.
I think a system like that would be perfectly fine here too. You don’t really need to bring all your posts over to a new profile, they’ll still be there and accessible on your old one if you need them.
Unless the old instance goes offline forever. Your posts and comments would still exist on remote instances, but the user profile they point to is no longer accessible.
Yes, copying subscriptions is probably the most important step, but ultimately I hope to see the ability to move everything, including history and notifications to old stuff.
you will likely need to work on it yourself, or find someone who can.
This is the feature in question:
Moving user profile to a new instance #1985: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/1985
I’m wondering if a DIY middle ground can be reached with the API and some scripting
There is a script somewhere which allows people to export/import their subscriptions. It did not work for me, hence I did not save it. But in theory, workarounds should be possible.
You won’t be able to move your posts, but you could link to your old profile in your bio.
You can already do that, or do I get you wrong? Probably does not help when your old instance ceases to exist.
There’s no general answer, it depends on your personal preference.
If you want to have most content available, register on an instance which has an according policy; which federates with anybody and is federated by everybody (both directions can make a difference).
The downside however is, this also opens the door to all sorts of bad actors, including bots and spam.
So I personally tried to strike a balance and am so far quite happy on lemm.ee.
This tool is pretty handy to make informed decisions: https://fba.ryona.agency/ It allows you to check federation status both ways.
There should be a place to document all the nuance around hosting an instance plus some tips and tricks.
The Wiki: https://joinfediverse.wiki/What_is_Lemmy%3F
Hopefully it gets new contributors and maintainers from all the new users.
A wishlist for two categories, in each sorted from very important to less important:
Technical:
View:
This was meant with the web/browser in mind. I expect apps and clients to work similarly, unless a characteristic necessitates exceptions (screen size, touch, …).
he “site:” operator won’t work when searching for topics discussed e.g. on Lemmy since there is no common, general domain name.
Agreed, that’s the problem.
Maybe that would be a great next step for a search-engine provider to be better: Add a new, flexible operator, like scope, and index the data of the fediverse or other distributed services for search.
Also agreed, that would be a solution. I’m doubtful wether they deem a particular network important enough to justify the extra effort on their part.
Is it possible to pipe search queries through a website? If yes, then let’s make a fedi-search! In which you can find any publicly available fediverse content.
Would it then be possible to google for site:fedi-search?
Because religion evolved to thrive in us.
It’s like a parasite, and our mind is the host. It competes with other mind-parasites like other religions, or even scientific ideas. They compete for explanatory niches, for feeling relevant and important, and maybe most of all for attention.
Religions evolved traits which support their survival. Because all the other variants which didn’t have these beneficial traits went extinct.
Like religions who have the idea of being super-important, and that it’s necessary to spread your belief to others, are ‘somehow’ more spread out than religions who don’t convey that need.
This thread is a nice collection of traits and techniques which religions have collected to support their survival.
This perspective is based on what Dawkins called memetics. It’s funny that this idea is reciprocally just another mind-parasite, which attempted to replicate in this comment.