Working on it! Right now, with this huge influx of new users, is a great time to create content that is very search engine friendly. In an effort to promote such content, I started the dance community here on kbin. Please join!

https://kbin.social/m/dance

Here's my submission!

https://kbin.social/m/Fitness/t/82763/How-to-get-started-in-a-traditional-gym

The way to avoid the fediverse suffering the same fate is not to combat extremism with an equivalent amount of antagonistic political dialogue, but to form meaningful communities around non-political topics.

Instead of bickering in circles about politics, join communities dedicated to your hobbies, career, etc.

My primary concern is for the fediverse to generate content that is search engine friendly. Generally, I don't think that political squabbles serve that end.

I'm doing my best to practice what I preach. Check my profile.

This is how Lemmy wins.

Although I agree with the general sentiment of other comments that are okay with the meta commentary, I do think that it is important for the federalized platforms to build up as much useful and search engine friendly content as possible during this influx of users. Although it doesn't hurt the efforts to do so, necessarily, the meta commentary probably doesn't help.

If the fediverse is to become a replacement for reddit, truly, then rather than simply sharing image macros and commenting about the expatriation, you should find a genuine community and contribute to it in real ways.

@Naminreb I wonder if the comparatively higher quality of comments, etc. on this platform is due, in part, to its smaller audience size, meaning that there is a smaller incentive to develop spam bots targeting it.

"A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic."

I can count on one hand the number of billionaires who have died on an experimental submersible touring the wreck of the Titanic.

Nobody looked at the Titan and thought: ahh well, they signed a waiver saying they accepted death was a possibility, there’s no point saving them.

Yeah, this author has obviously never been on the Internet before.

I actually ceased interacting on Reddit personally some time ago, and was just a lurker, using Relay to stay up to date with tech news. This was the last straw to remove the last vestiges of Reddit from my life. I've made a habit of reading HN and subscribing to RSS feeds, so Reddit was redundant anyways.

Aether and Ruqqus. Descended into extremism pretty quickly.

More like an addiction, than a relationship. No need to resort to baseless personal attacks.

I don't journal or really even take notes by hand anymore. The notebook I have in my bag is mostly for more abstract sketches, mockups, or examples.

However, I make a frequent practice of handwriting postcards to my friends and family, so I keep my handwriting well-maintained for that.

Helps me practice my German. Unfortunately, I don't know any German, so it doesn't help me at all, actually.

I've noticed some similarly weird synchronization issues when posting on japaneselanguage@sopuli.xyz: some of my posts show up on the kbin side, but not on the canonical instance.

(Also, yay for m/dance! Am creator and would love some other contributors!)

Not at all. I think you may be referring to the part where I said "I loathe to even call it dancing." I am referring to when people simply stand on the floor without making any attempt to actually engage.

As I said in the post, even my non-dancer friends would still happily participate in a swing dance night without having any sort of training. It seems that people at weddings don't even attempt to make an effort.

I'm a huge fan of being silly. I am not much of a swing dancer myself, but I will still throw myself on the floor with gusto. It's fun!

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all hail ActivityPub!

I think Reddit is a bit unique in the SNS space, since the primary unit of subscription is community (or topic) rather than user, so I think it serves to depersonalize the platform a little bit, and remove some of the power of "Everybody I know is here!"

It doesn't make the separation any easier, either. A clean break is sometimes necessary!

@pumpkin Thanks! I'd not heard of this one before.