The article is nice, but I’m not sure if I’d send it to friends that aren’t familiar with the fediverse. It seems to gloss over some problems and focus less relevant ones

It doesn’t touch on the issues with Blueskys protocol and makes it sound like an equivalent choice (or worse, a better choice). In the downsides section it touches on racism in badly moderated instances, and the difficulty of setting up an instance. Those issues aren’t relevant to the vast majority of users who will join a large instance that has defederated from the bad stuff.

It’s a nice article for those who are already somewhat familiar, but a bad first impression

Definitely this one, the products are sometimes placed right next to legitimate ones and worse:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/marketplace-homeopathic-products-1.6254025

Hidden camera reveals some pharmacists recommend homeopathic products to treat kids’ cold and flu

I sometimes come across influencers pushing chrio “treatments” on pets or newborns, saying it makes them “breathe better” or be “more energetic”

It’s infuriating

My guess is that it’s a simpler word that is more memorable and ‘biological’ sounding. So people are more likely to remember it over mutualism

Looks cool, I like the lists of games in the sidebar

Feel free to promote on !communitypromo@lemmy.ca as well

There were a few episodes I didn’t like (first one, explovid19, space king), but that’s the case with any season

I like !privacyguides@lemmy.one because the project is behind it

Whenever friends ask about resources, I always link them to the privacyguides website. I should use their community more as well

Yea it’s really about what people have as the mental model for the platform they are on. It might take time for people to internalize what the network is doing.

Mastodon and Lemmy do mix as it is, but it could be better. Two big areas I’ve heard are

• Lemmy users need the ability to follow mastodon users (kbin has this I believe)

• Mastodon users have a hard time following Lemmy communities and seeing posts, because they end up getting a waterfall of every post/comment at once overwhelming their feeds

That’s a good point, even the platforms may change over time (either by name, or entire projects migrating).

People here say “lemmy” way too much when they really should consider the Fediverse as a whole.

Part of it is that we don’t federate that nicely to the rest of the fediverse yet. I expect that to change over time though

I’m fuzzy on the details, but I do get reports from users on another instance as long as it’s “relevant” (ex. in one of our communities, one of our users)

Banning a foreign user on our instance will fix the problem for our instance, but they need to be banned on the home instance too in order to stop the spam from continuing

Somehow I never tried looking at Digg

It reminds me of the original “Your doctor doesn’t want you to know these 8 tricks for belly fat” ads, only that’s the actual content?

One thing I noticed the other day, while banning one such bot, is that the same network has been posting on Reddit as well.

Turns out the Reddit ones have been posting the spam for months, while the Lemmy ones get banned within hours.

Part of that is the lower volume of content here, but part of it is also the great people that take the time to report bad content ♥️

Good shower thought nonetheless

I’d start with ublock origin for browser extensions, and then add more things based on what you’re looking to do :)

You’ve already mentioned a few, but another might be to explore alternatives to the bad services and start a process to migrate over. That can look like anything from reducing your dependence on a service to moving over entirely.

ex. unfollow people and things you don’t care about

Maybe it could be specific to each user?

Few ideas

• a community for people to post in on their cake day, where they can comment on some aspect of their life that’s improved in the last year / something they’re grateful for

• if you come across a cake day account, pop into their history and comment on something you find interesting

Yea the part I found weird was that it went “mother’s sibling” but also “father’s sister”, rather than “X’s sibling” or “X’s sister”

Why is there an “or” in there, how does that help?

Some more variants if a workout isn’t your thing

• take photos on your phone when you see something nice
• contribute to OpenStreetMap by doing quests on StreetComplete (you answer questions about things you walk past)
• Geocaching, if you live somewhere with things to find

Your link might have broken with the edit

https://lemmy.ml/post/15052665

The version from your instance: https://lemm.ee/post/30737742

Beehaw is still Lemmy (unless anything has changed recently), but the instance is run a particular way. There should be a link somewhere about their philosophy and what the differences are.

In terms of vibe / community, I would think that there are more differences between the individual instances than the software that they run. That’s something which is easier to get an idea of as you use it more.

When I was starting out, Kbin didn’t have as much third party support, so there wasn’t a good way to use it on mobile. That may have changed since then