I think that part was pretty defensible. If they had caved to the original footage, they'd have a team of five dudes and one girl. It made sense to rebalance the ratio slightly to make it 2:1 instead of 5:1.
vaguerant
joined 11 months ago
And welcome to the jam.
If I wanted the government in my uterus, I'd fill it with oil and Hispanic voters.
chinese.lol does seem to be a real instance from a quick glance, albeit one which is clearly being weaponized thanks to lax moderation.
lemmy.doesnotexist.club is weird, there are literally zero posts or comments in the Local tab, so it may specifically exist for this purpose.
Now we know who dropped the bombs.
!theyknew@lemmy.sdf.org
I looked it up, real property is the stuff you own that is not movable; you can't move a piece of land, it's just gonna be where it is. It's also property that is affected by the environment around it in a way that other property isn't. If your neighbor uses a cheap phone, your phone does not depreciate in value as a result.
The opposite of real property isn't fake property, it's personal property. That covers your stuff and also things that aren't physical but you own anyway, like intellectual property.
It's not so much that they object to hearing those opinions, it's that major news organizations' opinion sections have a noticeable impact on the opinions of the wider public. Jeff Bezos probably doesn't care that much about his staff's opinion of him, but he would sure like it if they would make it their job to push 340 million people toward sharing his opinions.
Another OG kbinaut here (remember when we were all trying to figure out an appropriate demonym?). Ernest seems to be quite well! He's got a relatively active blog. He recently moved closer to family in the Netherlands and has been enjoying seeing the sights. The about page of the blog also expresses a similar sentiment to yours:
Unfortunately, due to personal circumstances, I had to step away from actively working on Kbin and leave its further development to the community. Nevertheless, I am happy to see the project thriving, with a dedicated group of users and contributors who continue to push its vision forward.
This doesn't seem uncontroversial enough to state so definitively. You're essentially arguing that centralization is a binary state where there is centralization or decentralization and anything between those two points is just "centralization but less". These types of networks are sometimes split into three groupings, where there's centralized, decentralized and distributed networks, with the third one being what you describe here. In that understanding, decentralized is the grouping the fediverse falls under.
I have no horse in this fight (I'm from fedia.io which runs on Mbin, a different platform entirely to Lemmy), but lemm.ee seems like a pretty good general-purpose instance to me. Although, switching to that is not really the most useful way to increase decentralization, as they're currently the #2 Lemmy instance by active users. But every little bit helps.
I think the most important thing to understand about lemm.ee is their policy on defederation. Broadly, they try to avoid using defederation whenever possible, preferring to handle moderation with finer-precision tools. In theory, this might lead to you seeing more things you don't like, because they don't defederate some instances which others do, but it also means you interact with a greater number/variety of people.
If your goal is just to "see all of Lemmy", lemm.ee seems like a pretty good starting place. Of course, you might have more specific desires or needs and prefer to join an instance that is more heavily defederated from instances with content you might object to, etc.
In terms of the Lemmy software staying up to date, you might want to check out FediDB. It can't really tell you how quick after an update the various instances upgrade their server software, but you can see that a lot of instances haven't upgraded to the current version yet. The stable right now is 0.19.10, released 3 weeks ago, so anybody who hasn't updated yet you can probably assume takes ... more than three weeks to update.
Oh wow, I just checked my old messages and none of the actual nicole accounts come from that instance, but one of the images was hosted there. Definitely sketchy.