Well that’s pretty cool

Is anyone under 40 still on Facebook? I think it’s all old people at this point.

The four-color theorem is pretty cool.

You can take any map of anything and color it in using only four colors so that no adjacent “countries” are the same color. Often it can be done with three!

Maybe not the most mind blowing but it’s neat.

I know he says it’s pronounced “jif”, but I just don’t care. It’s like “gift” without the t

You know it’s just bots right?

This happens to me sometimes too! Very wierd

I’ve seen this comparison many times and it does nothing to help my understanding of the fediverse. I have no idea how email servers work.

That’s kind of the problem I think. I was able to find like 2 people there I want to follow. Lemmy is going to be far more successful at displacing its alternative because all the communities you’d want to subscribe to are here.

No. My other instance is WireBase.org. It’s a smaller one

It’s type 2 fun. You don’t want to do it, but you’re glad you did when you do

Thanks. I think it is possible for users to block communities one at a time! I can do it in Memmy

Glad I don’t reuse passwords.

I always wonder about this though. Are hackers really going to manually test out my password in miscellaneous sites? How would they know what sites to try? And why me along the hundreds of thousands of passwords they would have stolen with mine? Seems like that’s something they would do if they’ve targeted a particular person, not if they’ve stolen a whole dump of credentials

Can a brother get a tl;dr?

Yeah the more I hear counter arguments from people on here, the more I think the best solution is for communities to group together and opt in to cross posting with one another. Are you saying thats a flawed idea too?

I get that. And definitely simpler. But what if a new community pops up? It sounds tedious to keep checking back in the search engine

Yeah there would be plenty of circumstances where you wouldn’t, like politics or local news or something. But I have to imagine there are more circumstances where you do want it. I said this below - what if the community owners grouped themselves with their counterparts, kind of like sub-federations

Or maybe the community owners could do it? Seems like a natural extension of federation is for communities to track their counterparts in the federated servers

It’s funny because Facebook was the original dumpster fire

Thanks for the FYI! I didn’t know it worked like that. How much influence does a single person have over what appears in the All feed? Let’s suppose I find an obscure community and subscribe, and I’m the first person from Lemmy.World to do so. Do posts from that community immediately start showing up in everyone’s All feeds? Or does it take a small army of us subscribing to the same community to make it really show up?

I’m out here digging half-circle holes like an idiot