Tuukka R

Maybe @jsonarray@utter.online can say? :)
(Though, I’m not sure if they read their Mastodon anymore. But maybe yes?)

The only thing this petition can achieve is maybe getting a few people to move their donations to projects such as PieFed.

Beside that… Well, Nutomic and Dessalines are the two people who decide on how to act regarding this petition – if they should remove themselves or not. I find it unlikely that they will look at the finished petition and go “oh, people want us gone. Okay, we’ll do that”.

But yeah: Do not give money to Lemmy. There are other projects that are compatible with Lemmy and have use for your money as well, without being assholes :)

No worries :)

You could just read from sources you have subscribed to and skip the “All”. That way you don’t need to bother with content filters :) You also aren’t really forced to follow the communities that are about US politics.

1. The multiple instances.

You only use one. You don’t need to care too much about this.

2. Multiple communities that are the same name.

This one can be confusing indeed. I hope they will ask if they encounter this. Then you tell them they’re on a different Lemmy, and that the two are interconnected. And that’ll help them understand a bit about federating.

3. What is exactly decentralization.

Not really important for using Lemmy. Nice to know, if you like being tech-savvy, but not necessary for using.

4. Federation

This was already mentioned as “2.” You can read and write posts without understanding this. You’ll get the point of federation at some point.

5. Difference instances can give different results

Different groups have different rules anyway. Some of them are derived from the instance’s rules, but whatever. Same end result. Not necessary to understand for basic usage.

6. How Moderation works is different than the usual platforms.

How is it different, actually?

7. Community discovery is different. Searching for something can be quite difficult on Lemmy.

I’ve never had trouble searching for something. Maybe that’s because before Lemmy I basically used only Facebook and there you cannot really find anything by searching anyway. For me Lemmy’s search works just fine for searching for what communities exist. Haven’t felt a need for something more.

8. Lemmy’s community has a lot of tech-jargon which non-tech savvy people might find difficult to wrap their head around.

You don’t need to understand everything on this planet. If you cannot wrap your head around something, then don’t. You don’t need to participate in every conversation.

9. How the banning system works on Lemmy is different than the usual platforms as well.

They’ll figure this one out if they ever get banned. Otherwise, it’s irrelevant for reading and writing.

All in all… Understanding federating isn’t strictly necessary for reading and writing in communities, but yeah, it is good to understand at some point. Everything else… Meh. Things that are nice to know, but you are able to follow communities and write in them just fine also without understanding those things.

How?

You don’t need to be tech-savvy to use a social media.

Well put!

Why do you not like it here? What can/should be done differently?

This is probably the way that works the best.

What do you mean?

The whole thing with federating is irrelevant to most users.

I tell them it’s a social media built in a way that makes it impossible for any company to take over it in order to make profit. And then I show them to some instance I’ve hand-picked for them, without really telling them there are other instances as well. It’s not something they should worry about at that point. I can explain it later on, anyway.

Why just 400 kV?

At least Ukraine has several 750 kV power lines. Decreases the energy loss quite a bit!

By 20th Sept 2026 the Russia will have lost the war it is waging, or at least it is clear to all sides that the final end of the war will in approximately half a year. USA and China can still change this, but I don’t think they will.

It is any better.

It’s also not okay what DC did, but the transgressions are very different in scale.

Kimmel was faired for saying “MAGA is trying to make it look like the shooter wasn’t a MAGA activist”, while Felker-Martin got fired for saying “it’s a good thing Kirk can no longer take part in podcasts.”

I don’t think either of those is grounds for firing, but it’s not good to bring them to the same level.

I wouldn’t call it “understanding” if you assume a meaning to a word that doesn’t have that meaning.

It’s funny in the same way as native Americans saying “ugh”. If you’re ignorant, you laugh. If you aren’t, you facepalm. A joke that just makes its teller look like an ignorant idiot who is happy to trample other cultures is not a joke that should me made.

I do understand it’s the entire point.

It’s also super annoying when English-speaker make new “languages” which are just English with each word substituted by another. The joke assumes that Latin is just a dialect of English.

So, what I’m trying to hint in a subtle manner between the lines is that the joke is not among the best ones out there. Of course you can go to some meta levels and find something funny about someone being so stupid that they assume that words have 100 % equal meanings across languages. But, meh.

The joke reeks of monolingual ignorance miles away.

What do you mean with this?

I’ll copypaste this thing I wrote under another comment:

This is a bad translation because the English word “to come” has a double meaning (it also means ejaculation or having an orgasm), while in Latin it doesn’t. There’s a big risk of a misunderstanding, so “I arrived” is a much better translation IMO.

Why do you think “I came” would be better? 🙃

This is a bad translation because the English word “to come” has a double meaning (it also means ejaculation or having an orgasm), while in Latin it doesn’t. There’s a big risk of a misunderstanding, so “I arrived” is a much better translation IMO.

Why do you think “I came” would be better? 🙃