There should be a kind of “sorting hat” personality test to attract the interest of prospective Lemmy joiners. People who love solarpunk stuff, for example, would easily find their home in slrpnk.net. Set a link to it on sites like join-lemmy.org to make the fediverse more approachable to casuals.
I’m Hufflepuff or I’m NOTHING
i saw a bird once
I completely agree on principal.
But also think that the rule of Lemmy is that all algorithms end at porn.
But it’s our porn and has unique surroundings of anime, politics, and Dutch.
But also think that the rule of Lemmy is that all algorithms end at porn.
Huh? I don’t see any porn, regardless of what sort I choose. Ah, that’s because there’s a checkbox in your settings to let you choose whether to see NSFW posts or not. I guess turning that off works really well.
Turning it on doesn’t work well either. I have enabled NSFW and never see any of it. Yes, I have subbed to everything on lemmnsfw, and none of it shows up in any feed
Weird. Then either our instances are secretly blocking it, not through defederation, or there’s some other mysterious technical reason for it.
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And Marge Simpson, don’t forget her!
already said “porn”
I literally just saw a merge sort meme with marge
Yes, I study sort algorithms as well…
I don’t rlly wanna see straight porn (no hate, just not my thing xd) and honestly, I was in a pretty good spot. Then someone told me I was scrolling active instead of hot and OH MY- that’s a lot of porn
that’s a lot of porn
You’re sorting by hot, shouldn’t it be only porn? /s
Hey listen, that c++ code do be looking kind of sexy.
All good in the hood.
I live in /All sorted by New.
Many reasons, but I just like… seeing the whole gooey blob and sticking my hand in it.
That’s how I do it too, but after reading your “hand in the blob” comment, perhaps I’ll start wearing gloves.
I feel like the functional differences between instances are:
- Interface and mobile apps (Lemmy vs mbin vs Piefed vs other)
- More populated instances are going to have more “extra-instance” content federated to them, because more users means more subscriptions to comms/mags/whatevers at foreign instances
- Instance uptime and reliability (which depends heavily on the number and attentiveness of instance admins)
- Different instances will choose to defederate with other instances in different ways
When I first immigrated here, the most popular platforms were Lemmy and kbin. I liked the kbin interface more, so I started on kbin.social - which folded after a while. So I switched to fedia.io, which runs mbin, a kbin fork.
None of this has anything to do with “aligning a personal identity with an instance.”
None of this has anything to do with “aligning a personal identity with an instance.”
well… yes and no. you want an instance whose federation and moderation policy aligns with your personal philosophy on those things (and may require you to run your own). so when people see your username, they see the server you’re on, which communicates to them your philosophies on those things.
Doesn’t join-lemmy.org have that?
When you click to join a server, it asks about interests and language and suggests servers.
They list lemmygrad under general purpose lmao
