Good thing about activitypub is the power of mods and admins is always checked by the ability of others to enter the scene and create competitor communities and servers.

Yeah, i think this is right. I know a few people i worked with in customer service who were wankers before, during and after.

Downvoted, because i hate the mental image you gave me.

Why do you say threadiverse, not fediverse? Have i missed some nomenclature change? Wouldn’t surprise me if I have, i’m usually buried down my own little holes around here.

In a suburb about half an hours drive from me theres a pink house, like an almost barbie-pink. Its eye-catching, i love it for them. I bet theres a real character in that household!

In Western Australia we’ve been rolling out FOGO bins (Food and Garden organics waste), last summer i didn’t tie off one of the bags properly and there were maggots everywhere, spilling out of the bin.

I guess this could happen with general waste bins as well, so i suppose i’ve changed my attitude on the wrapping up waste to go in your bin idea. The only way i see around it is more home composting.

Its been two or three years now since i dipped out, the way you describe using the ‘don’t recommend’ and ‘not interested’ options seems to have a clearer result than when i last used them. If they’ve changed that functionality in the meantime i’m glad.

Yeah, some of peoples suggestions here are good. I liked that user who only looks at their subscribed channels tab, if i ever go back maybe i’d try that. Though the only youtuber i miss is adamsomething, one day i might jump onto his patreon.

Oh cool, reminds me of the C&C underground missions in Red Alert, taking Tanya through the base. I always took so long with those missions, but i’m a natural turtler.

What are the two communities?

I only ask out of general interest as its such a specific number, if you’re not comfortable sharing, don’t feel obliged.

Ha, cheese addiction has gotta be a thing with dogs.

My dog knows the sound the cheese container makes very well. That fuckers come in from outside when we’ve got that container out in the past.

I’ve stopped giving him cheese now, (i think i read its toxic for dogs), so he doesn’t care so much about when we get it out. I wonder if the sound gives him happy reminiscences though?

Its gettin put through the crusher as soon as posession is taken.

Earth Abides

Its mostly slow. Apocalypse genre, without the insanely selfish caricature of the personal relationships between people.

Yeah, but they need to be sneakier as they steal away through the grocery store doors. Those doors are a funnel for awkward moments.

What i hate is when someone gets offended i don’t initially recognise them when they’ve got half their face covered.

Take the fucken glasses off and say hi properly you awkward ass bastards! I got shit to do, and i don’t need to feel bad for the next half hour because you made me squint to recognise who the fuck you are!

What matters for an economy, and therefore the value of its currency, is the value they create–simply put, how much resources they exploit and how efficiently

Yeah, thats the way it ought to be, its actually slightly different, and is very important in the context of what a country does to undermine it’s own currency, or even a companies director does to the value of their company.

Value is a question of perception. How much are people/investors willing to tolerate and still perceive the value in a good or service or currency.

Its the reason the massive quantitative easing ended up spreading so widely as a tool in the last 15 years. In the beginning it was assumed that the massive ‘money printing’ would lead to massive devaluations, which didn’t really happen as expected. Thats because the reaction in value percieptions in those currencies ended being more flexible than central bankers and economists initially feared.

The perception of value played a role in how long it took for people in the US to recognise the real estate bubble exploding in 07-08. It plays a role in really any bubble, and is why prices drastically plummet instead of taper. The value perception changes en masse, and bang, everybody runs for the door.

One more interesting example is the value perception comparison of essential workers in the COVID19 Pandemic compared to normal times.

It can sometimes grow to quite a large fund for people.

Damian Gordon saved $46,000. He described it as a hobby for him. What a legend!

Lot of good advice here about curation, thats definitely an option to leverage your subscribed feed.

Another option, is to remove yourself from the largest server (lemmy world), look at your options on other instances, theres hundreds. The label to the right of usernames should denote what instance people are connecting from.

Some examples are blahaj, midwest.social, sopuli, feddit…

The links below have lists of a lot of the available instances,

Lemmyverse.net

Fedidb

Advantages of Choosing a Smaller Server

The experience of the ‘Local’ tab seems to be genuinely different from Lemmy World.

Lemmy World probably doesn’t look too different whether you sort by the ‘all’ tab or ‘local’ tab, so you really only have the ‘subscribe’ tab to find and hone your niche on the network.

Going for a smaller, but active in its own right, instance means you suddenly have a ‘local’ tab that is highly differentiated from the wider lemmy network, andgoing along with that its often a bit less political.

I’d use my own as an example here, but we’ve just had a major election in Australia, so its been pretty political lately, i’m expecting that to subside now that the chooks are counted.

So no Jewish peoples lived there before the State of Israel you reckon?.. hmm

Leaving the above aside, because its a dead end for both of us. The removal of any peoples, just like Israel is trying to do to the Palestinians now, won’t lead to a peaceful future.

Take it from a person whose a product of colonisations, invasions, and genocides. The marks aren’t erased by moving the opposing people on. History is always remembered, something Israel is going to learn the hard way.

The only options for the future are a form of historical pragmatism, or a continuing series of violent crimes against each other, with the turns of history favouring one population with more strength over the other at different times.

Colour me shocked, public transport? A thing? Gadzooks! /j

There is a weird internet cult about him, true. But the things he said were important, adding greatly to the body of thought that makes the world we live in today.

Its pretty flippant to disregard his words on the control of resources, just because he never sat behind the wheel of the 20th Century cart.

Not really a fan of allowing corporations ‘control over the means of transportation’.

I bet Marx could come up with a great explanation of why its a bad idea.

But i’m not him so i’m just gona go with Dennis Denuto’s, “its the vibe”.

The Castle, The Vibe - Youtube