That’s a fairly perfect answer imho, ticking all the boxes: (1) choosing to see that content becomes opt-in, rather than have to opt-out, crucially the reason why being that they have failed to abide by the rules of the wider community, and even been caught outright lying to instance admins; and (2) explaining the reasoning behind it, and how to un-do that decision (which can always be reversed later).

Yes PieFed has a ton of features but I agree that it needs some work still on its level of polish, which Lemmy does ever-so-slightly better with, being older. Fwiw rimu@piefed.social has asked the community whether it desires more of the former vs. latter and typically the past answers have leaned towards more features (although I suspect the tide is beginning to turn on that based on posts submitted to !piefed_meta@piefed.social). I do think that PieFed will end up being the future and leave Lemmy behind (e.g. Jeena’s story), though it would be even more ideal if they could both compete in offering fantastic utility as FOSS to everyone world-wide, in efforts to combat against enshittification of the internet!

I have recommended piefed.zip (and also lemmy.zip) in the past to people, but after you explained that I have zero reservations about it being labelled as “Newbie-friendly” and will recommend it all the more as the default go-to instance - with nothing against piefed.social obviously (I am on it myself!:-P) but as a bulwark against centralization I agree with @Blaze@piefed.zip that it would be most ideal to spread people around, which right now means more off of piefed.social.

Thank you for being a MAJOR part of the solution to advance the Threadiverse forward. I don’t care that it’s a week behind, I am so very glad that you responded here:-).

Minor note: the ToS in the instance chooser on piefed.social for Piefed.zip points to https://piefed.social/tos which says “not found”. That is the instance chooser pointed to by https://join.piefed.social/ so even though piefed.zip has its own could be helpful to change for people thinking of joining.

Didn’t you read, they are ginger cunts! (/s)

“You guys are able to retire?” meme

You can have it after you pry it from my cold, dead fingers.

(Soft whisper from behind) “Challenge accepted.”

Still much cute, so wow.

Technically it’s ‘offal’.

Excellent start already!?

we’re still pretty diverse at a region, state, city, and often even small-town scale

I suspect it is mere laziness. Either in writing or far more likely, in the (lack of) thinking behind that. In the same way in which you cannot extract blood from a stone, so too conversations in e.g. memes@lemmmy.ml are not going to reflect deep philosophical insights.

Likewise believing everything you see on TV, or even bothering to watch more than a couple shows before making snap-judgements. I believe the word you are thinking of is stereotype - “A conventional, formulaic, and often oversimplified or exaggerated conception, opinion, or image of (a person or a group of people)”. Again, some may not even believe what they are saying, just using short-cuts in their language, although sadly many seem to have drunk the kool aid there. But, the USA is not the only target there - nearly all forms of argumentation happening across the entire Threadiverse seems biased to me so I’ve given up nearly all hope of truly rational dialog, on any social media platform (it’s possible, it’s just so frustratingly rare that I cannot extend my hopes for it forever, it is simply too draining for me to do so).

Can I get that on a throw pillow or cross-stitch?

If you are an oligarch then you can get whatever you want!!! Otherwise, we can get fucked, it would seem. 😰

Don’t forget also: people are mad, and disappointed. And that is understandable, as we are as well (highly ironically, virtually everyone across the entire USA seems to feel that right now, making it like the ONE THING that we all have in common? both among ourselves and with our European and Global South and Asian and other brethren and sistren and other). It is emotionally a protective measure to “blame someone else”, rather than take even the slightest responsibility for oneself, e.g. for placing too high hopes in the status quo, despite literally all of history, recorded & otherwise. An example could be the mantra “number must go up”, which is literally (not figuratively!!) ridiculous even on its face, and yet almost everyone that I’ve ever met seems to have gone all-in into believing that it would hold out pretty much forever…

(censuring myself here b/c I typed out a political-themed paragraph but according to rule 2 decided against sending it)

It is not just some European users of Lemmy that are stupid - it’s me too, all of us! :-P We all have biases in our thinking, sometimes. It is simply easier to see such in someone else than it is in ourselves.

!leopardsatemyface@lemmy.world, or more apropos here, !leopardsatemyface@lemmy.ca.

I meant that choosing to implement the algorithm to refer to a singular instance is a step towards rather than away from “centralization”. Other algorithms could be envisioned such as pulling from all instances that are federated with the newly created instance - although I don’t know the ordering of steps so that specific solution may not be viable, so I only meant it as a (possibly very bad) illustration of such a concept that would implement a more decentralized ideal.

1. Shelf
2. Screw
3. Drywall

I mean… tbf the USA is a lot more homogenized than Europe. e.g. Spain vs. Catalonia, and both vs. France, and all of those vs. the UK, and so on.

But even if that were not the case, you can see how it would be perceived that way - Television portrays this homogeneity as being fairly uniform, regardless of the fact that it is not.

That is always something that I appreciated with sci-fi, like Star Trek Deep Space Nine revealed that despite how Starfleet members were very similar, there were quite a few willing to break out of the mold and behave VERY differently - like becoming terrorists / criminals or whatever. Or like Battlestar Galactica where lets just say that people on some ships behaved VERY differently than people on other ships… or like Star Wars where culture ranged from humans and aliens being slaves on Hutt-controlled poverty-stricken planets (where those in power had everything and the common man could barely survive), all the way over to aliens and humans being slaves on human-controlled planets (where those in power had everything and the common being could barely survive)… oh wait, bad example there maybe:-P.

What bothers me, and this seems more Eternal September than anything else, is how people treat what is happening in the USA as a uniquely USA-only problem… as if the literal exact same thing is not also happening in MANY other places around the globe, plus also slightly different things are happening yet geared towards the same end-point. After all, literally every mystery I have ever read or watched says to follow the money trail… who benefits from what is going on? Exactly.

It’s actually somewhat funny in a way: whereas on Reddit it was legitimately true, here on Lemmy the American Exceptionalism USA-centeredness effect seems mainly some Europeans being mad at other Europeans, as some want to share e.g. news about the USA (as if somehow that counts as “news” and “relevant” to “what’s happening around the globe”), whereas others do not.

Also, I think you know more than most here just how many bad actors there are across the Threadiverse, spinning up bot accounts or even human ones to amplify some things and decry others. So I am ignoring that here and just focusing on what seems a genuine disagreement.

Funny enough, PieFed provides so very many tools that could help with that - post flairs (e.g. posts in a “politics” community could be forced to be labelled as “USA”, to allow people to filter those out?), hashtags (likewise), keyword filters, multi-community Topic Feeds (so you can combine “usa politics” with “world politics” into a single combined “meta community”) plus combining comments across crost-postings, all of which help combat the fragmentation effect that Lemmy has no solutions for (currently). But as with all of the above concerns, and again remember Eternal September, it is far easier to complain than to work to actually solve any problem.

All 3 are true…

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/alarmed:

Worried; anxious; panicky

Asking the REAL questions here ⁉️

That statement also works either way 😉

He never said what direction it would turn towards! :-P

Nutomic is not in my blocklists - I may not agree with the devs philosophies but I do highly respect them nonetheless (I realize that may not always come across well), for offering their software as FOSS rather than keeping it private. I did block all users from lemmy.ml though, as the VAST majority of the time those comments just waste my time so while that throws out good replies sometimes, I find the balance highly worthwhile, personally. If it were possible to make an exemption to that, I would have done so specifically for Nutomic.

Anyway this is excellent news!! Sorta. It now being configurable, I will stop spreading this as misinformation, particularly against the lemmy.ml instance being authoritarian, and I thank you both for your correction in this matter.

That said, at a quick glance it does still look like the way to replace it is to use a different instance’s community listing? (lemmy.world, lemmy.zip, whatever) Which is still a trend towards “centralization” - even if configurable now as to which source of bias the instance admins chooses?

I agree that it is entirely fair that Lemmy sourcecode development is slow (possibly the constraints of language choice, and/or funding concerns, etc.), and so Lemmy instance admins must make do with things that can be changed more readily while awaiting more difficult solutions to be implemented, with lower prioritization.

So overall still not an ideal situation, but I thank Nutomic and you for pointing out that it is a LOT better now than the earlier choice to hard-code lemmy.ml specifically into the codebase.