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A community dedicated to fediverse news and discussion.

Fediverse is a portmanteau of "federation" and "universe".

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I like this significantly better than Mastodon (lemmy.one)
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My experience with the Fediverse has only been through Mastodon, through which I struggled to find a community I really gelled with. Either it was supper overwhelming with meme posts or NSFW, or it was too chill to the point of nothing. Or, it was hyperfocused like FOSS/Linux and became uninteresting after awhile. May try again, but I think I will explore the other fedisites like Plemora or Calckey to see if I like it better.

I love the pace of a forum. I grew up primarily with GameFAQS and some lucid dreaming forum, and honestly it was very formative in teaching me how to write and use critical thinking skills, as well as how to respond to a variety of temperaments. I stopped participating in online forums awhile ago, and while I loved Reddit as a resource, I never felt inspired to participate. In the same way, there are an incredible number of forums dedicated to a certain topic, and are extremely valuable, it would be annoying to make an account for all the things I am interested in.

I like what lemmy is becoming. Glad to find system that makes interacting with people enjoyable.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm from Mastodon and trying Lemmy to explore more of the fediverse, liking it so far too ๐Ÿ˜ƒ. My Mastodon feed is almost all politics so I'm liking the different content on here.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

Ug. Yes. Politics is important and inevitable but ultimately exhausting to look at. Just impotent yelling across the ether.

An analogy that I have been using is that politics is like linguistics. It is useful to study language in a granular way from morphemes to phonetics to syntax to discourse analyses, and everything in between. The structure of a language is fascinating, it helps to discover its relationship to other languages, and it can reveal profound things about the cultures that would otherwise be lost.

Yet, studying linguistics does not make anyone better at learning to speak, read, write, and understand other language. It does nothing for fluency. Nobody learns a language to only talk about the language, they do it to connect to other people or to experience art and media in its original form.

Political discussion is not action, by itself it does nothing to improve the world, it only serves to bias us and disort reality.A person can only hope to be inspirational and change the minds of the prejudiced.

... sorry for rant there. I have way too many opinion about politics for someone who does not care to see it either.