This is partly why I've chosen a different instance other than .world. I can control what is and isn't in my feed, and it's not like contemporary American centrist liberals have the best ideas when it comes to the current political landscape.
Resonosity
joined 1 year ago
What the fuck man...............
You do realize that in German culture, the horrific actions of the Nazis are taught from an early age, and Germans are highly dismissive of the movement?
Just because Nazis were primarily German in ethnicity doesn't mean that the contemporary movement's biggest proponents are also German. That honor falls to Americans.
And for fuck sakes. There were German Jews leading up to WWII. You're monolithizing an ethnostate, which makes you look more than a tad ignorant.
Let's stop this rabble, and focus on the point at hand: intolerating Nazis, wherever they come from.
Gah, America as an empire is past its prime. Look what we had!!!
Hell yeah! Consider sticking around for a bit. Don't forget that you have the power to block individuals, communities, and even entire instances if you're having a bad time. Not sure if reddit gives you all that power, but it has its uses!
See, I learned this in Spanish class in my American high school, and I don't think that linguistic fact stuck with me! Thanks
Having the ability to export your account data (say to a CSV) might be useful for this reason.
If you want to move to a new instance, you can pack your bags and head out.
You can probably imagine how this won't be a 1:1 transition, however, because the new instance might not have the same communities as the old instance. I commented on another thread about how it would be cool if Lemmy took your communities list, looked at how those communities federate for instance (or just do a word search on the new instance with names of the communities of the old instance), and serve you suggested new communities to subscribe to.
And if you can export your data, then there's no need to store it in a centralized way to make these types of actions doable, which favors privacy.
And it's not like exporting your subs to a CSV file or something to then upload to your new account on your new instance will work. Different instances will have different communities, so it won't be a 1:1 transition.
I can definitely see the friction for new users if this happens.
We all know people are lazy, so if the friction proposed by Lemmy is more of a burden compared to the inconvenience proposed by Reddit or another social media platform, then people won't change.
It would be interesting if there could be some tool that proposes similar communities on the instance you're joining based on the communities you were subscribed to in your previous instance. Community federation could allow for that linked list that could be reverse searched and served to a user, precluded by uploading a CSV file of your previous communities so you don't have to keep track of individual users in a server somewhere (which is anti-privacy anyways, and Lemmy imho is pro-privacy).
I love this meme
Welcome to Lemmy where, in theory, you have much more control over who censors your opinions!
It's funny that the lemming above you is downvoted, while you're upvoted lmao