Ну-ка, я все таки хочу знать: чё?

I plead terrible memory and accept this may be more accurate

It’s a reasonable take, I swear! Most fedi platforms seem to have an English-speaking population that is ~50% Germans speaking English, ~25% the UK and the rest is a smattering of other English speakers. Lemmy, in my experience, is the odd one out with regards to US defaultism.

Fedi: look it’s not that complicated, you just need to understand how decentralization can improve stability and openness by allowing users to…

As I remember it (and I have a terrible memory), the fedi beans memes started pretty early on, like 2018, and came from a place of “we don’t get trending memes from other platforms so let’s start our own.” I think it came to lemmy from other fedi platforms pretty early on, and gets deployed periodically as a kind of palate cleanser. I blame the Brits, but I don’t have evidence to support that.

Sounds like a job for funkwhale

I think probably the most disorienting thing for new users is that you have joined a lemmy instance, lemmy.world, that is federated with a bunch of other social networks. Some of them, like mine (feddit.online) are very similar to yours, and some of them (like pixelfed.social or bookwyrm.social) are very different from what you are used to. Each instance has its own software and distinct culture, which can lead to unexpected interactions, but you should be fine as long as you’re actively kind and remember there is (probably) another human on the other end. The best explainer I know of is https://fedi.tips/ though it is tailored to mastodon users (which is federated with us and you’ll see them around, but have much more Twitter-like software that they’re using).

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You’re thinking of libel. Liable means legally responsible. If you win your libel case, the defendant will be liable for the damages.

In meteorology, clouds are also physical objects with a size and a weight and a limited lifespan that are subject to the vagaries of nature and time? It seems like a fine metaphor?

Many big tech initiatives in the fediverse are funded via nlnet grants. I think they have one open specifically for pairs made up of an artist and technologist to promote content creation currently, but they open fairly regularly.

My city has a crisis team that responds to calls that do not require an armed officer. I would probably call the non-emergency line to request they come out and intervene.

I want All, but not like All, just like Some, but like, I don’t have to tell anyone what Some is and the Some is listed as All and it automatically updates the Some to be the Some that I want in All today based on my mood without telling anyone.

The idea is called a sneakernet. There are a few currently running that I know of, but signup is the trickiest part — you have to know a member of the sneakernet irl to join.

I do. Consolidating my phone and tablet into a single device would be very convenient. Adding support for an external monitor, keyboard and mouse to replace my laptop would be even better. I didn’t buy a Duo not because I don’t want the product, but because I know they won’t work well for another few iterations (at least).

Effective Altruism is a plausible-sounding framework, but the practitioners are literal insane people. Should you donate a fixed part of your earnings every pay period to the most effective charities? Yes! But after that, it basically all falls apart and suddenly you’re in Yudowsky’s weird sex cult donating money to some weird crypto scheme.

I think the fedi project that it most interesting in this regard is Holos, where your fedi server runs on your device. Having an app that runs on your phone that “just works” is probably the best solution long-term, and it feels like Holos has a reasonable chance of achieving it.

Go Bears?

I have no idea what I would do, but I know it would destroy me, either from guilt due to inaction or guilt due to action.

The bad news is: you can already follow accounts bidirectionally between Threads and Mastodon. The good news is: Meta did the bare minimum and seems to have stopped development.