Why? One of the candidates is standing on the platform of bringing back the monarchy. It’s fitting to use British iconography.
Why? One of the candidates is standing on the platform of bringing back the monarchy. It’s fitting to use British iconography.
Am I reading correctly? Are you saying you cook pancakes in your rice cooker?
How do you do that?
To be fair, what do you expect people to talk about?
5-12 comments covers most topics for a given article/meme. Any more than that, and it starts to just become a repeat of what someone else said.
Do you want to read 10 copies of “lol that meme is so me!”
I always thought it was wild that your average thread on Reddit could garner thousands upon thousands of comments, with the vast majority of them being repeats of something someone already said.
Then factor in that those same comments are in the next thread, and the next one. That’s not engagement, that’s insane!
The comments here are far more sparse, but they still cover all your bases. You still get the interesting info dump from some expert or hyperfocused individual who’s done a bunch of reading, you still get a humorous pun or joke, and you still get the “well, actually, this is wrong because…” just, now, it’s like 1 of each type instead of a thousand people all trying to crack the same joke in one thread.
Edit: to clarify, I mean 5-12 top level comments
Welcome to the Internet. There’s Western propaganda here, too. We got all kinds.
Lemmy isn’t Reddit. It’s not owned by one entity. You’re not in a bubble that a corporation is going to keep you safe in. Anybody anywhere can create a Lemmy instance. They may be Chinese, they may be European, they may be Russian, it doesn’t matter. What matters is using your critical thinking to sort the wheat from the chaff. Join and federate with those you think are good and block those you think are bad.
Practice critical thinking and encourage your friends and family to do the same when they’re looking at information online. There’s free courses out there that can help with that kind of thing if you’re unsure.
But really, that’s your only defense because every company wants your attention, every government wants you on their side, and everyone is trying to manipulate you with propaganda somehow. Lemmy is no better or worse than Reddit, Facebook, or Twitter in that regard. That’s just the Internet.
Join both?
I like alcohol. That doesn’t mean every bar should merge into one big bar. Sometimes, despite two identical themed bars serving the same drinks and having similar clientele, you can have a cracking time in one and a shit time in the other.
Sometimes, that’s due to the staff (or mods in terms of Lemmy), sometimes, that’s due to particularly fun customers being in that day, and sometimes it’s just your mood on the day.
Having multiple communities for the same topic is a feature, not a bug. It also prevents a community from being strangled by 1 or 2 bad mods as another community can be made in response. Unlike the Reddit model, where there is 1 community for 1 topic, and if it has bad mods, well, you’re shit out of luck.
Ah, good old broken YouTube app. I don’t know if this is true for everyone, but on my phone at least that link just took me to the beginning of the video.
Your comment reminded me of the fun fact that there’s more water in Loch Ness alone than all of England and Wales’ lakes and rivers combined!
Add in all the other Scottish rivers and lakes, and you can see why Westminster is loathe to let Scotland have independence.
Some places just have a fuckton of water, and the Australian outback is not where Mad Max will take place irl in the future, but in these places.