I'm splitting hairs a lil bit - you're pretty much correct. Minors are not citizens, so they don't have rights. Minors are wards of the State. They under State protection, and as such don't have the ability to forgo that protection, until they turn 18.
Thanks so much! Great info. I had a question - can I group communities together into a custom feed? I can currently view all subscribed on my Home feed. But if I have , for example, 6 news communities, can I group them into a single “MyNews” style feed?
Ohh! Right on! I'm rocking EndeavourOS. Been my desktop go-to for a while. And just started the community here. Love me some debian though, it powers all the servers in my homelab.
I'm an iOS guy, and have been sideloading Apollo. But even then, reddit has been slowly coming after that. So grateful I found lemmy before they completely pull the plug there.
No you're absolutely correct. I vividly remember reddit 18 years ago. Pretty much every post on every subreddit was intentional. Early on, even the concept of comments on posts was disputed as a good feature or not. Now its entirely different. The big reddits now are ones like poursTea, sipsTea, different variations of infuriating, and WhitePeopleTwitter, etc. They're all basically rage bait holes, designed to get an emotional reaction out of you, and the comments are people arguing with bots, or bots arguing with bots. And with the scale on reddit now, you can effectively doomscroll /r/all, as more and more posts flood in. It's not far off from Instagram and TikTok.
Lemmy has less posts, less upvotes, but they are all [presumably, hell I'm sure there's an exception] real.
It's feels like trading in a giant box of cheese balls for a small, but very nicely cooked steak. Smaller but actually filling.
Ty so much for the tips! I'll look into all of those. To start, I sat down with my subreddit list, found correlating communities here, subscribed. Now my subscription feed here looks very similar to my legacy reddit home feed.
I wanted to ask about starting a community. As I understand it, you have to be an admin (or a privileged user of some kind) in order to create a community on a given domain/federation. Is there a process to go about doing that, or is it more correct to start your own federation?
The reason I ask is that my favorite linux distro doesn't have a lemmy. I think it'd be awesome to start it up. I'm not against going through the labor of spinning up a lemmy if that's most correct, but would prefer leverage what already exists, if that's a possiblity.
I'm splitting hairs a lil bit - you're pretty much correct. Minors are not citizens, so they don't have rights. Minors are wards of the State. They under State protection, and as such don't have the ability to forgo that protection, until they turn 18.