Yeah, yeah, it's Chinese government propaganda, but isn't all advertisement basically propaganda? "Everything is rosy in Xinjiang" is a harmful lie, but so is "if you buy a big-ass truck you'll be a manly man" and frankly I think the latter is causing a lot more damage because it's one that people act on.
Taken without credit from The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows by John Koenig. This is a book, but more interesting is the collection of video essays on the YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/@obscuresorrows .
Wow, you're right. We really need to bring back something like USENET, where newsgroups (their "communities") weren't tied to a specific server. We could almost just resurrect NNTP, although the handling of images (and binary data more generally) probably needs some tweaking.
I have accounts on both, and I like the look of kbin better, so I've tried to use it more. However, the functionality you mention has been undiscoverable to me: I have no idea how to get a list of non-local magazines, and I've looked around for that quite a bit. On lemmy, it's as easy as clicking "All" when searching communities.
Is there any document that would help me find those features on kbin? Or, for that matter, a similar sort of documentation for lemmy?
I've been really happy with Ayu Owl
This is textbook phase one of what Cory Doctorow calls "enshittification". Users don't have much of a choice, so make it as shitty as you are able without them leaving? Check. Phase two (which Google is no doubt also doing) is to do give the same treatment to the advertisers.
The pressure to maximize profits ensures that all private entities performing this sort of connection role on the internet will eventually become enshittified. There's no escape (under capitalism).