Captain Aggravated

Okay, I’ve found the Battletech and Satisfactory communities to be nearly deserted.

Yeah it’s clearly a D-Sub connector, I’ll allow the meme, the joke’s funny.

I remember being in like 4th grade and the teacher showing us a video about the tricks they use in advertising, how they carefully craft cheeseburgers, use spray deodorant on beverage glasses to make them look frosty. The thing that stuck in my mind was fake ice cream. Because ice cream would melt under the lights they actually use a substance similar to cookie dough, like shortening, flour, sugar etc. which is completely edible so you can film actors eating it, and I remember thinking “that doesn’t sound half bad, actually.”

somebody make a fortune cookie cow for cowsay.

1. I think there’s a minor quirk of Lemmy’s UI partially responsible for this, at least as far as I can tell from my one user account on one instance. By default, I am shown communities on my local instance only. I have to click “all” every time to leave my home town and travel the rest of the fediverse. There does seem to be an option to change this in my account settings menu. It’s labeled “Type.” You first hear about Lemmy, “It’s like Reddit, but federated, which means…one account on one instance gets you access to the whole network.” you log in, play around a bit, and at some point you ask “I get access to the whole network…how?”

2. I’ve seen people bring up the worry that because each instance has its own namespace, the Fediverse will be even more fractured and dispersed than Reddit. “How am I supposed to have time to browse 100 different r/technology’s?” Well, some of them are going to gain popularity and become the de facto standard, and the others will wither and die.

3. Might be a ramification of the idea of “general purpose” instances. I’ve seen a couple instances so far that try to focus on a broad topic and only allow communities within that topic. Which, if your sole interest is in that topic, that’s where you should put your account. I figure it’ll sort itself out, though.