Jes

“You guys had electricity”? (/s)

Wait, this wouldn’t by any chance have been late 2024 would it? SO YOU ARE THE ONE WHO BROUGHT THIS UPON US ALL!?!?

I wonder which one you summoned…

Not me, I did more than 10% better! (meaning that i did 24.5%💪🤪)

Thank you for sharing that story.

Depending on your method of access (like app or webpage) often there is a way to browse without an account. Though you won’t be able to comment, vote, or save anything (like settings). So really, to sign up on a new instance, you pretty much need an account to do all this - otherwise abusers would send so much spam everywhere, this is why accounts are mandatory.

Although once you have an account on one instance, you automatically get to see content from all of them. Make sure you are looking at “All” rather than just “Local” content.

When you are ready to switch, go to account settings, scroll to the bottom and choose Export, then in the new place choose Import and it will port over all your subscriptions, block lists, etc.

The world is what you make of it. It’s definitely not fair. One tip: narrow your experiences until you can stand them?

Honestly PieFed helps so much with that, it’s like night and day. Maybe switch to PieFed.World (or something) and check how those categories of communities change your experience completely. You don’t even need to make an account to start with that.

You don’t ever have to scroll your main feed again, until and unless you want to… there are whole entire days when I have not done so, and a wealth of content to be seen if only the right tool helps connect you to what you are looking for. Drop the largest communities and embrace the niche, if you are looking for quality over quantity. Blaze managed it on Lemmy but it took having twenty different accounts, whereas PieFed lets you do it with just one.

Nowadays you need the apostrophe, and a mix of capital and small letters. #IDon’tKnow⁉️

And never will

Literally… yes. Those are all that are allowed iirc.

This comment should win Lemmy for the day:-).

Both wrong. The disease lab itself is infectious.

I found him!

Do I dare ask what “touchy” is in that case? (Heisenberg says I cannot know the answer to all three.)

It might be pong 🏓, for giraffes? 🦒

Trump himself looks absolutely miserable in that photo (probably trying to project strength), while everyone around him is smiling (subservience indicator).

Asked if he has any concerns that it will cost the GOP seats in the 2026 midterm elections, Johnson responded, “No concerns at all. In fact, it’s going to gain seats for us. We’re that confident.”

We will have the outcome that we deserve.

Well actually that is a png file…

Random thought: I love how you offered all three links here, in that order. It is so friendly.

All the more so for a topic such as this that transcends normal standards - i.e. the need to get the word out is (far) more dire than usual.

I don’t think the Lemmy software can do anything about it, as it places too much emphasis on manual labor on behalf of the moderators to keep up.

PieFed has some really neat ideas though, on democratization of moderation where users can set software preferences, thereby taking a substantial burden off the shoulders of the mods.

e.g. instead of relying on mods to remove posts, keyword filtering allows individual users to reduce exposure to topics such as “Musk” or “Trump” or “USA”. Or user icons are really cool - e.g. new user account with age <2 weeks, or highly contentious user with >10x more downvotes than upvotes, or potential unregistered bot account that posts >10x more often than they reply in comments. None of those cause “removal” of content except in the recipient’s personal feed.

Probably it depends which corners you look at.

A tiny niche subreddit I would presume would be more civil than a politics community here.

It’s also a lot easier to dox people IRL here. e.g. self-host something, get someone to click, and there you go.