That's actually pretty funny

You don't need more than one account. You just decide which instance you want an account on, then subscribe to all the topics you care about across multiple instances. I just think that generalist instances with thousands of local topics are unnecessary.

I think part of the issue is that all the different Lemmy and kbin instances are trying to be Reddit themselves. By which I mean there are a bunch of instances with no focus. They're all "kitchen sink" instances, each with their own Politics, Tech, Cats, etc.

Lemmy.world, lemmy.ml, kbin.social, fedia.io. All of them are generic reddit alternatives, but the real reddit alternative is the amalgamation of subscriptions from multiple more focused instances.

Startrek.website is a great example of the opposite: it's an instance focused on one topic, where some people will want to sign up as a user and others will want to just subscribe to one of their three (!) boards from their own instance. They don't need their own Politics topic, users on the site that care about it will subscribe to a politics topic from another instance. The startrek admins and mods only have to care about their one focus.

My ideal fediverse feed would be pulling individual topics from a few dozen more focused instances instead of one generalist instance. I think that's what's going to end up happening.

Known bug

This place already feels like home

corgial

I think I like this word better than the original

I love democracy

Don't worry too much about it. There's still going to be people using Reddit. You're never going to convince everybody about everything. My parents still use Facebook.

Canada has a huge Ukrainian population, we're staunch allies with the US (who is firmly on Ukraine's side now that the Manchurian Candidate is out of office), and Russia is obviously the aggressor in this war. Of course we're going to side with Ukraine.

Russia's only hope was to convince the world that apathy was easier than getting involved. But they did a shit job of it

There's a possible future where major fediverse sites switch to whitelisted federation to deal with spam etc. At that point, your small instance would have to petition all the major players to be let in. That would probably kill off most small instances.

I think it's totally fine for instances that want to be small and community-focused to not be federated with the greater pool of the internet. Especially when, as they've said, the moderation manpower and tooling isn't there to handle the extra users.

Personally, I wouldn't want to join a place like that (I've never been a fan of message boards or other niche communities), but it's their place and their rules.

Each Lemmy instance (or kbin 👋) is like its own Reddit, all connected together. So you're seeing 'subreddits' from multiple instances right now.

That's a great point -- by making public places the only places you can exist while poor, you push all the homeless there and everyone else ends up avoiding it and going to places they have to spend money at. Enforced consumption.

Picnic in the park? Sorry, tent city there. Better go to a restaurant instead.

Baseball at the diamond? Needles and excrement, let's go bowling instead.

Grab some books from the library? Someone's smoking crack in the bathroom, I'll just buy the book from a store. Or Amazon.

Ideally these public spaces would be for everyone, but more and more they're repurposed for social services.