Do we actually care about "beating" Reddit? As long as a friendly & knowledgeable community exists on Lemmy, do we really care about also being the largest?

Mastodon has a feature that allows you to migrate from one instance to another within Mastodon. Lemmy does not, and I think this is an important feature to have

Somewhere out there is some very nice animated graphs showing just how big a billionaires wealth is. It's still too big to be properly comprehended...

This is a threat, not capitulation

Consider getting your own domain. That way you own your own name, but you can swap email providers behind the scenes

The "benevolent king" is a persistent myth isn't it? They feature in so, so many works of fiction

Australia has bad wealth inequality and does have a parasitic billionaire problem.

I doubt that the masks had anything to do with it. If someone reacts so violently to being asked to adjust their mask, they will react violently to practically anything.

I want a phone small enough to fit in my pocket with the pocket flap buttoned shut

I am annoyed by those instances that block lemmygrad.ml but link to lemmygrad.com. I feel that those instances' mods are engaging in deception

In Australia in 2007 the Catholic church successfully argued that it was not a legal entity and therefore could not be sued. The "Ellis defence" https://www.concordatwatch.eu/not-a-legal-entity--k38175

Being open source, we can write our own mods, correct? (not that I have the skills...)

Also is there an alternative to Google Docs?

I was lucky enough to join a local club of Linux users. The face to face interaction is awesome

The "less happy" bit is fundamentally "a single income used to be sufficient to support an entire family, but now we need two incomes"

Apparently Firefox can synchronise your bookmarks between your desktop and your mobile app? Does anyone have experience with this?

Yes, we have missed the chance to subject the shooter to questioning in court and expose their prejudice properly. Now there is a danger they will become a martyr

Chokepoint Capitalism by Cory Doctorow. Admittedly it does not describe how to destroy capitalism, but it does highlight some of the ways capitalism negatively impacts the creative arts. A good wake-up call for any creative author out there.

On a small instance, you have greater opportunities to take action to positively support that instance. You can make friends with the administrator, volunteer to become an administrator yourself, donate cash to offset running costs, lodge helpful reports, welcome new users, etc...

My workplace is transitioning a bunch of their data and processing to the cloud. When I look at what software makes the cloud work, there is soooo much open source software there. Big business is quite comfortable with FOSS