My hope is that this is a shift back to a more decentralized internet.

Ragebait like noahgettheboat, idiotsincars, publicfreakout. It’s the Jerry Springer of the 2020’s.

• nuclear fusion power
• male birth control
• Metroid Prime 4
• native accessibility features for Reddit

More than particular subreddits, there are some general things I hope don't make it here. I don't miss dumb joke comments being voted to the top of threads, burying the comments that actually attempt to answer OPs comments. Maybe Lemmy could implement a feature for OP to pin the most helpful response.

My hope is that federation will be a good solution to these issues. Users can choose a home instance based on the types of content they do or don’t want to see. Instances with conflicting focuses or policies can defederate from one another.

The Chicago Boys’ role in Chile’s Pinochet dictatorship really puts the lie to the whole “freedom” angle of neoliberalism. Allying with a guy who rounded up thousands of dissidents and summarily executed them shows their freedom is only for the select few.

The lesson from GeoCities, MySpace, Yahoo Groups, etc. and now Reddit is that you can’t depend on a large corporation to host your content indefinitely.

Looks pretty crisp on dark mode at these dimensions. I wonder if it’s enough contrast at a much smaller size.

I’m going through all time top subreddit posts to seed content here. I’m mostly grabbing links to other websites. Unfortunately there are a lot of subreddits that strategy doesn’t work for, though, if the top are all self or image posts.

Several (attempted) murderers have owned copies of The Catcher in the Rye.

From what I’ve seen they’re not so much trending as new.

Documentary on him worth checking out: http://www.takepart.com/internets-own-boy

A truly phenomenal individual who worked on so much of what makes the modern Internet run: RSS, Markdown, Creative Commons, and of course was instrumental in the early days of Reddit.

I tried to look up Tumblr’s present and past Alexa rankings, but it turns out that Alexa was closed last year.

Right-wing libertarians (this is another term with two very different meanings) are neoliberal absolutists. Center-right and center-left politicians usually have to compromise with other sets of ideals. Marijuana decriminalization and legalization is one area where right-wing politicians typically preference the social conservative side over the neoliberal/libertarian side. For a center-left example look at the Affordable Care Act. From the beginning Obama was never going to favor a true nationalized health care plan. He offered compromises within the existing framework like state exchanges.

A lot of places in the US have (had?) small, weekly, free newspapers that are actually pretty good. They get by by being full of ads, often the kinds of ads more family-friendly outlets wouldn’t publish.

The subreddits I moderate are all quite small (about 2-5k subscribers) and on relatively obscure topics. For now the Lemmy communities I've started are on pretty broad, general topics. I'll consider official moves for them if the Lemmy userbase gets big enough or if Reddit really does die.

非常好

That society was completely built around men’s prerogatives and therefore anything bad about society should be blamed on men.

It's so bizarre to me that in 2023 we're still stuck in this unproductive nature vs. nurture debate, and worse, this notion that these positions must be tied to certain political positions. It should be pretty obvious at this point that it's not an either/or. The debate should be to what degree in given specific situations.

I haven't checked it out yet, but you might be interested in Tody Hemenway's "Permaculture City" https://tobyhemenway.com/book/the-permaculture-city/