Exactly!

“You can’t out run a bad diet”.

Exercise helps, but once you do the math and see how many calories hard exercise consumes vs how easy it is to eat more calories, it becomes very clear.

Huh?

You’re here aren’t you? I think that says you consider the tradeoffs worth it.

Good points/explanation about the fragmentation breaking the communication.

Hmm, not sure if we can take any active position toward “fixing”, since it’s really hard to predict the outcome of our actions. Perhaps this is something that will continue to mature as communities coalesce.

I think I’d still like the ability to build my own in-app filters that aggregate communities. Like you’d do with a podcast app. Then at least (for an individual) you’d see all the posts that you consider related in a single feed/folder/view.

It’s definitely not a simple problem.

From the US. Communist was tired 40 years ago. I saw it first hand, by the 70’s kids were already getting tired of it, by the 80’s the next generation just said “sure gramps”.

Yea, you still hear it a little today, but nothing like it used to be.

Tradeoffs.

If we want the flexibility of not being beholden to a monolith of mods like reddit, then we have to accept the consequence that anyone can create a community anywhere.

It’s not hard to search the fediverse, just takes effort to filter. In fact, the great overwhelming volume we get from it is testament to how much better this is than reddit.

Seems to me you’re tilting at windmills.

Couldn’t we do collections within an app on a per-user basis?

Like I could create a collection of different communities that I see as having some commonality, then it’s only a view for me.

But I’m no dev, so take that into consideration.

The news communities are just terrible. I keep having to just block anything with “news” in it

Hopefully we see it mature this way, and eventually we some primary communities (per subject), with some smaller communities, and the tiny ones just being subsumed by the others.

I think the idea was to get some data into lemmy, to seed it from reddit. Seems to have run its course.

The communist pejorative has been dead for… Decades and decades. Like 4, at least. By the 80’s it had lost its charm, and young adults would roll their eyes when gramps used it.

There are plenty of other similar, (now-meaningless) pejoratives tossed about all the time. It’s old and tiresome to hear/see.

I’ve searched before, do you know why “tankie”? I can’t get a good etymology on it, like how it would reference single-party communist states?

Edit: hmm, Guess I missed the Wikipedia entry on it, though I could swear I’d read it before. Thanks Habiscus!