This looks good, I just found an old (3 year old post - I didn’t even know Lemmy was around back then!) and commented on it. There were also funnily two other recent comments (one from 2 months ago and another 3 months old).

They timed it right so that they fucked up both ways, in the browser and in the low end web-connected phone market. They are clowns.

It’s worked excellently. Very easy to use.

Quote I heard very recently: Don’t do things that would not achieve the goal you wanted if everybody did it.

It’s got too many caveats, but it’s certainly food for thought.

Block memes and politics if you must - I blocked the latter and my experience is superb.

If you comment on posts you think are under-rated and upvote, you’ll push them up the activity queue and it’ll reach more people.

I’ve been posting on the HP and Tolkien communities and begun modding them too. I’d encourage people to post, and if necessary take up a little responsibility too.

I suspect doing this on posts with less upvotes will push them up the queue, so if you see any under-rated posts go upvote and comment on them.

I’m moving to lemm.ee personally for similar reasons. I’m keeping the dotworld account as backup and may be creating communities here.

I’ll personally post as long as it’s relevant. Ideally it’s an interesting comment but not always. I stay away from reddit-type inane comments with no substance, though I’m sure they have their place here as well.

Some people might have made multiple accounts and chosen one possibly?

For now if you want another account, you just make another (with any username you want, I have an account with the same username on lemm.ee). It’s possible to port subscriptions and blocked users and communities to a new account using some software. While that is useful, it’s not a proper account migration.

However keep in mind you can mostly access most other instances from your home instance. In that case your username (and instance) ‘carry over’.

On the off chance lemmy.world has defederated from an instance, and you can’t access it, you can join another general, neutral instance like lemm.ee

Feel free to make an account on another instance like lemm.ee (a general sensible instance) or lemmy.cafe (run by a guy, new) or a country-based instance where people of that country congregate. You might do this to keep your interests or purposes for the accounts separate or in case the lemmy.world server is down (even for a short while), or to potentially access defederated instances and their communities.

OP should possibly check out lemmy.ml’s worldbuilding community which is slow but has had more posts in total.

These were weeks where decades happened.

Because your comment was related to what I had to say, and I also agreed with you. I did see a comment that echoed my criticism of the BBC lower down, but I hadn’t seen it before I posted my comment.

I’m glad there’s nuance to the discussion, I was worried by the 95+% glazing going on.

I ignore all the politics from the BBC, though general news and entertainment, documentaries are all broadly fine. But they’re *politically *compromised by state-funding and imo are blatantly corrupt.

The same people fund both the government (through elections) and the news media. I guarantee you Murdoch is friends with many of his fellow billionaires.

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If there’s to be regulation on this, it has to be universal and has to apply to all states including the US, and all social media platforms equally.

Otherwise leave it to people to decide what they want to watch. Louis Rossman’s view on the matter (guy on YT who complains about Apple and other bad behaviour by big companies) changed recently. Video: I was WRONG about banning tiktok - here’s why I changed my mind