thats a pretty astute observation. still, narrowly missing a "state-level charlie kirk" because the fascists are just fucking bad at the job is not the type of comfort I hope for.
agreed. a tad snarky, but it was an honest opinion. lemmy will grow and communities will fill out.
one thing that may help are clients that allow community aggregation into meta communities. this would allow users to be presented with a themed superfeed of similar communities across many instances. easiest done at the client level (no protocol changes needed), but could be extended to communities using meta tags or moderator inclusion into meta communities with protocol help. protocol support would also allow meta communities to be presented via the web interface.
perhaps this has already been done in some clients. if implemented thoughtfully it could be interesting and perhaps even useful.
as someone who appears to respond very, very well to training and hard sparring in a carb deprived state, I can honestly say its a seriously decent option if your body is so inclined.
BCAAs before any hard activity have been the go-to for me and, as long as my aerobic conditioning is where it needs to be, I actually perform better - faster reactions, more predictable round to round power endurance.
this is, of course, only my anecdotal reporting here, so mountains of salt required.
the latest colonization of prior human effort. I am not absolutely against LLMs and a push towards actual AI, but all financial proceeds from this effort must be shared equally and globally.
however, human nature being what it is, we will almost certainly empower the very worst outcome - because... of course!
not a professional programmer, by any means - but PR's (for me) slow development down to a point where code matches the philosophical/algorithmical goal. when code development is at the proper pace, it dramatically reduces the need for refactoring.
edit: upvoing this post, because the comments are particularly interesting - as with any "good" post :-)
federation certainly allows the bubble to close - {dot}world is an example; zero hate, people can absolutely choose to ensmollen their PoV if that makes their world safer. the nice thing is, interesting, thriving alter-views are only a federated instance away :-)
I tend towards the democratic socialist point of view as a default, but damn-me if hexbear isn't both entertaining and informative, even if I disagree with some of their more... spicy(?) positions (sometimes vehemently).
lemmy{dot}ml is one of the most widely federated instances around, primarily because its a pretty diverse mix of lefty and lefty-ish ideas. lemmygrad{dot} hexbear{dot}net and blahaj{dot}zone and others equality as infuriating/interesting are all accessible from lemmy{dot}ml. its a pretty ideal instance, for me at least.
one thing I do try to make a point of doing is preferentially interacting on non {dot}world posts and comments. many peeps will post across community instances to encourage engagent diversity. keeping things active on non-{dot}world communities helps everyone.
this is an important observation. lemmy users are pretty damn protective of our signature drive-by commentary and federation makes it easier to enforce "small world graph" etiquette.
holistically, I have never seen any situations where federation, on net, did not make things objectively better.
spaghetti is delicious for a reason.