"plans"
If we are throwing around big words, we have to be precise though.
Echo chambers always existed and we are in them all the time. A few hundreds or thousands years ago, we lived in small groups. Those definitely had different opinions, but overall had the same values. Those were echo chambers. Now, where those bad? No, you want people to be in line on foundational topics.
But if you start to manipulate these opinions on the ground level, you're going to divide people.
Global warming? Is it really that bad? Migrants? Aren't the stealing our jobs? LGBTQ+? Aren't they just harassing our kids and women? Hitler? Was he really that bad?????
Do you get what I mean? Echo chambers aren't the problem. They always existed. It's bad influence that turns everything to shit.
The cool thing is that instances can decide on their own if they want to tolerate that or not
That sounds scary
The anti trust system has failed completely.
Nice to hear. :)
What convinced you to join?
The Name needs changed, you see who shows up when you search Lemmy. The easiest thing to do is switch it to “Lemme” (Sounds like “Let Me”, like just lemme post this) or Lemy.
Good ideas for new names, however, I think this is seen very controversial in the community.
Lemmy needs an app that is just as easy as Reddit to sign up for. It needs to drop on the person’s computer desktop and sign them into a default federation that auto accepts everyone. The initial signup process is confusing to people, with the website listing different federation and having to apply and wait. Some auto accept, people need to be pointed to those.
Some sort of rotation system would be cool that distributes the users across multiple instances. That way no single instance gets too big.
What can we do to get more people to switch over to Lemmy from Reddit?
That's pretty optimistic
tfm
joined 3 months ago
"bearly maintained with AI" now g