You seem to know this person so maybe you won’t be surprised by their posting history, but for anyone else, I recommend checking it out to get an idea of what to expect from that instance and some context to these discussions.

The fact that you even hesitate to defederate from them is reason enough for me to abandon this ship before it turns into an intellectual dark web hub.

https://slrpnk.net may be a reasonable alternative for some of us who are closer to the intersection of nature, science, sustainability, and decentralisation of power and wealth.

This is cool! Typing with it right now. Have been hoping to see an innovation like this for a long time. (Maybe some proprietary products have come and gone but non-free software doesn’t exist to me unless I really can’t afford to abstain)

It hasn’t been updated in like a year and there is no spell correction. Am I missing something or is this just an acceptable tradeoff for you?

It’s “different from”.

“Similar to”; “different from”; “less/greater than”. “Different than” doesn’t make sense.

Different app

I wasn’t implying they got access to unpublished research. I just mean that when they construct such a vivid world with narrative and highly detailed recreations, much of it is inevitably artistic interpretation based on limited evidence. It would be helpful if they had narrated more on what parts of a presented depiction are based on actual findings so that people don’t walk away with misconceptions about what we know vs what might have been.

But instead they took a very immersive approach. Which is fine, they can do that. I personally would just have liked some scientific commentary while watching.

It’s reflected in the recent documentary Prehistoric Planet (I hope I got the name right). It’s a good series, though I feel like they could have been a bit more transparent about how much is creative liberty vs based on solid evidence (but to be fair they usually have a short segment afterwards with a bit of that).

I didn’t watch this video but I suspect the sentiment is similar to Sabine’s (I highly recommend her channel)

The idea is that you browse your feed of subscriptions, not that you literally go to an instance and browse their local feed.

I don’t know if I solved it by disabling and re-enabling the repo but that’s one of the things I tried and later I could see it.

I never used Discord but used google hangouts before switching to Telegram and Matrix (the former for family and the latter for everything else).

It isn’t different and you are rightfully confused about the way they phrased that.

We don’t know if axions are a real thing. This is still highly speculative.

Would if they were sold in the local store. My executive function makes it hard to go hunting for places to buy the things I need on a regular basis.

It’s worth considering the environmental impact of spending a whole plastic bag (even if small) for what often amounts to rabbit-sized poop in case you have a smaller dog. I’m one of those owners that make contextual judgements about when to pick up and when to leave it or flick it into a nearby bush with a stick. I’m not picking up poop off-trail in the forest. Also generally not alongside car roads (talk about pollution).

I know owning pets is not environmentally sound, so all I can do is mitigate.

No, only comments made after they refederate

If this is a reference, I’m not getting it.

I don’t disagree. I want to see topic aggregation as soon as possible too.

My comment was in response to the implication that people who exercise their right to not listen to everyone talking are using defederation as some sort of weapon to fulfil their chaotic, destructive agenda while free-speech instances are merely open to any and all interactions like exemplary participants in a civilised democratic society.

If you actually want to know what my perspective is, I just wrote about it: https://mander.xyz/post/739439

I don’t think of the threadiverse as a link aggregation platform but as a network of communities engaging in threaded discussion. The federated model is an answer to the problem of platform lock-in, the network effect, and the lack of autonomy communities have on proprietary/commercial/centralised platforms.

Each instance separately may fill the role of link aggregator but mainly for that community (instance), with that community’s values and moderation policies. The ability for an instance to federate with other instances with compatible policies is the benefit here.

It may actually help if you view an instance as the community, with its “communities” as its topics.