Apparently it makes a good RSS feed aggregator if nothing else.

Here’s a link you can use to share this post with your friends. The default share link makes you have to click to see the picture and many users will be confused and not click it.

https://photon.lemmy.world/post/lemmy.world/24984716

Yes it’s excellent! Also noting for those that aren’t aware: Goodreads is owned by Amazon.

Matrix?

The decentralisation of the fediverse works well.

Ie. taking my previous example of lemmy.ml censoring any criticism of Russian and Chinese imperialism, under instance rule 1 which is basically “no bigotry”.

Well I’m not on lemmy.ml, and if I talk about it in non-lemmy.ml communities, lemmy.ml admins probably won’t bother banning me — that would be too much effort, so if a lemmy.ml user ventures to communities on other instances, they can learn about this censorship.

(sidenote: I wonder if !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works is blocked by ML admins, afaik it isn’t)

You only have the freedom to choose if you have the freedom to be fully informed. If the instance you are on has “unofficial” rules they enforce, and they remove any comments of anyone discussing those “unofficial” rules. Then it is not moderation — but censorship.

Thank god voyager previews image links.

Yeah but there are a few notorious large instances that censor things that aren’t stated in their rules at all.

Like criticising china or russia will get you banned from the ML instances but their rules don’t mention that.

I can’t believe I still have it but I’m going to start actively changing emails on all my old accounts on services I had registered with gmail before I switched.

There are many useful blocklists. But the average user isn’t informed enough to seek them.

Ios: https://apps.apple.com/app/id1007331679 https://apps.apple.com/app/id934850257

Also fun fact the official apple maps app is mostly based on OSM.

Have to agree with Blaze here.

Even though growthefediverse and fedigrow have similar names, they are about quite different things.

Ie. maintaining a lemmy community, vs getting the word out about lemmy.

I wish this was the case but the average user is uninformed and can’t be bothered leaving.

Otherwise the bigger service would be lemmy, not reddit.

the market of the fediverse will balance itself out to what the users want.

Just like classical macroeconomics, you make the deadly (false) assumption that users are rational and will make the choice that’s best for them.