So the “journalist” Wes Davis is a liar and the Verge is a slop factory run by idiots.

I’ll shorten it to wars.

lemmy.ca is alright.

And I’m not saying the other instances shouldn’t be like they are with their weird, esoteric names. But I am saying they’re generally a poor introduction.

Personally, after having spent some time on lemmy, while I like lemm.ee I feel like I could be fine to move to mander.xyz or sh.itjust.works. If I was on lemmy.world and not lemm.ee, I might’ve done it. But I’d have to start fresh, I wouldn’t be able to move my user there. And personally, I get kind of attached to my account. I don’t really like making a new one and leaving the old one. I wouldn’t like to keep logging into two different accounts, either.

I feel like if it were feasible, it could potentially be very good to allow users to just press a “Move user to another instance” button. Might be a terrible idea, but hear me out.

The function being, I guess, to either fully move its data to another instance with their full history. Or alternatively, to effectively just remake the account with the same login besides instance, and keeping access to their user’s “legacy” history accessible from the old instance within the profile. Maybe with legacy history as a separate thing if necessary, ideally it would be displayed in the same list as native history but with a marker or something. Either solution sounds potentially messy, but maybe it could be done elegantly. I would guess the latter with the new account linking to the old account would be better, not messing with where the old comments and posts and messages and votes are stored. Maybe it could effectively be generated as just a simple separate text file to refer to, to link to the legacy part of the profile’s history from the other instance. Not sure about any of that. Maybe it would make sense to just allow one move per year.

Either way, if this could work well, it could make many users much more willing to switch to one of the smaller instances after initially joining lemmy.world. Especially if lemmy.world does something many users don’t like.

I know I’d personally prefer this kind of solution if lemm.ee were to turn into an extremist trekkie instance that started mandating “Live long and prosper, to all except Lucasfilms.” at the end of every post and top level comment. I’d want to bring my profile and history and block lists and whatever over.

As many others did, and many others will in the future.

Referring new users to a poorly named instance is a generally bad idea. Many of our instances do look very similar to the nonsense links you’re taught you’re not supposed to not click on if you get them in an email or see them on the internet in the wild.

What you’re saying is “reddit is fine, it can stay the front page of the internet, I don’t mind”

Yeah, this is just stupid. I wish a significant amount of redditors would go to lemmy.world

I mean, what do you want to tell them to join? Something called “mander.xyz”? “sopuli.xyz”? Maybe something like sh.itjust.works, jlai.lu or yall.theatl.social? I’d feel awkward enough telling them to join “Lemmy” then linking to lemm.ee. Sending them to lemmy.ml would just be cruel.

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Next war plan is going to happen in an X thread. They’re gonna @ eachother about seizing Toronto and nuking Vancouver.

They’ll launch the nuke from a submarine, They’ll trigger their own warning system, they’ll panic, they’ll think it’s a Japanese nuke, they’ll launch retaliatory strikes, the Philippines will be unrecognizable.

The Toronto invasion force won’t have crossed the border before the entire admin is in bunkers and not communicating. They’ll be an army on standby to invade an ally, and they’ll hear the admin atomically spooked itself into giving China their sea claims in the worst way, a way nobody is happy with.

Democrats will respond by suggesting that other Democrats should consider launching an investigation on an accelerated timeline, with only 3 short months (~0.903 Metric months) to be completed and brought before a committee hearing that already has three notices that members will be absent, unable to attend due to family functions and vacation plans.

Streaming revenues will be stable, Call of Duty MAUs will not fluctuate notably, Starbucks will close 8 locations, most celebrities will be done tweeting/blueskying about how it’s fucked up. JD Vance will call someone the N word on live TV to thunderous applause.

Reddit has taken a side.

“Think of the kings and nobility! You frighten them! Please just come to us with your concerns and we’ll discuss it in a civilized manner! Pick your representatives, send them in to us and stay outside, our court can’t handle you all at once. And please, dismantle the guillotine, would you?”

Lemmy isn’t about making you personally cozy.

Lemmy and the Fediverse is only truly successful if it changes the internet completely, to no longer be a space where the majority socialize according to the terms of corporations.

Anything short of that, and we might as well go back to Reddit and just let the rich have the internet.

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Commies always have huge block lists. It’s like their own private little gulag for thought crimes.

I’m glad you’re not the majority.

Guess I’m the 3rd. Jerboa has been flawless for me, I feel like.

Idk, maybe Voyager is good to, looks fine. I might check it out if I run into a reason to try it.

This is kinda like a kid saying he and his friends are gonna beat up the bad man and save the world and stop the wars.

Like it’s cute or whatever, but wtf are you going to do? You want me to actually believe you?

Just another sub-million-user wildflower service that will bloom and wither and die and be forgotten at the end of the season.

No the script kiddies got infected, thus rendering them hackless normies, and the problem is solved.

Nope, a lot of us have issues with Putin defending Tienanmen Square Massacre loving Stalin stans.

As a Norwegian I’ve always hated Americans who see our country and our neighbors and think “We’d rather go Soviet, go farther, be stricter, be more violent. We’d rather learn from Marx than you. We don’t want socialism unless it feels like a cult, and disowns questioning heretics like a cult”

You’re not exactly speaking to the right crowd here, what kinda shorts do you imagine we’d make?

You wanna see dancing nerds? Little 15 second lectures from awkward people who only sort of know what they’re talking about?

It doesn’t matter, they’re a 21st century commie. If it doesn’t have Putin or Xi’s blessing, it’s bad.