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Pros / cons of riding a bike?
apparently my city literally literally banned public rail funding, and people online love jerking off about how good biking is, so i figured might as well try. I have come up with:...
Is it just me or do Lemmy communities tend to skew left wing? Why might this be?
I can’t say I’ve been using Lemmy for long, but from the get-go it seems that the communities, memes, opinions that get upvoted seem to reflect left-wing ideas....
Why is End of Life of an OS bad for an average user?
I get that there won’t be any security updates. So any problem found can be exploited. But how high is the chance for problems for an average user if you say, only browse some safe websites? If you have a pc you don’t really care much about, without any personal information? It feels like the danger is more theoretical than...
Following the other post, which lemmy.ml communities don't have alternatives on other instances?
Following the other thread (550 upvotes and 366 comments at the moment: lemmy.world/post/16211417), one of the complaints that people had what that some communities only exist on lemmy.ml and don’t have alternatives on other instances....
Don't you all get tired of the constant negativity?
Despite not subscribing to political communities and having a large number of content filters based on keywords, my feed here is still for a large part all negative articles and ragebait. Elon Musk this and Israel that. Microsoft ruining windows, AI ruining internet, right wingers and capitalism ruining the world, police being...
Over 1 million new users and over 600 new servers added in one month across the fediverse. (fedidb.org)
Number of monthly active Lemmy users rising again
lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats...
How am I supposed to decide who to vote for in local elections?
I’ve never heard of these candidates, they have no party affiliation, and there’s almost no information about them online that I can find....
thank you google maps, very bikeable trail (lemmy.world)
Last Week in Fediverse – ep 69\70 | fediversereport.com [Blog Article] (lemmy.world)
fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-69/...
Why publishers are preparing to federate their sites - Digiday (digiday.com)
The Verge and 404 Media are building out new functions that would allow them to distribute posts on their sites and on federated platforms – like Threads, Mastodon and Bluesky – at the same time. Replies to those posts on those platforms become comments on their sites.
Where can I find the rules for Lemmy.world?
I don’t know if I’m blind or getting too old or what, but I cannot find the instance rules anywhere. Can someone help me?...
Can anyone recommend a lightweight, stable distro for a thinkpad?
I’m looking to mainly use it for school and was wondering if there’s any recommended distros out there for thinkpads....
DuckDuckGo is down. Is there any info about it?? [EDIT: IS BACK] (lemmy.world)
Update: bleepingcomputer.com/…/microsoft-outage-affects-b…...
In our post-AI era, is job security strictly mythical? Or How to believe in careers as a concept worth doing?
With the lastest news of AI layoffs, I’m struggling to understand how the idea of a career still holds. If careers themselves effectively become gambles like lottery tickets, how do we maintain drive and hopes in the longterm endgame of our struggles?...
Norway, Ireland and Spain recognize a Palestinian state in a historic move (apnews.com)
Norway, Ireland and Spain recognized a Palestinian state on Wednesday in a historic move that drew condemnation from Israel and jubilation from the Palestinians. Israel ordered back its ambassadors from Norway and Ireland....
Tom Waits - "Road To Peace" (2006, alternative folk rock) (yewtu.be)
Tom Waits is not afraid of going dark places with his song writing, but it hardly gets darker than this....
For discussing Fediverse accessibility, where would you recommend me to go? Or stay here?
I’m asking because it is really difficult to find a place for discussing accessibility in Fediverse posts beyond the limits of any one Fediverse server application....
Will I ever be seen as truly British?
My family immigrated to the UK from Poland when I was six. I’m 20 now, speak much better English than Polish and feel like this is my land/culture. However I have a Polish first and last name, Polish passport and “unique” accent everyone picks up on, so despite this I’m usually perceived as an outsider. It makes me...
The Trouble with Forking Mastodon (wedistribute.org)
A lot of people have talked about the possibility of forking Mastodon to get the many improvements their communities need. Making such an effort successful is another discussion entirely.
Arrest of journalist Olga Fedorova (Alex Kent, New York, May 8 2024) (kbin.earth)
How come liberals dont hate conservatives the way conservatives hate liberals
I constantly see angry mobs of people decrying “woke”, “critical race theory”, ““grooming””, and whatever other nonsense they made up this week. They march around with guns, constantly appending lib as a prefix to any word they can use to denigrate. They actively plot violence and spew hatred in the open....
Why does the government of the USA stand by the country of Israel?
That’s the question.
[Serious] Any high-quality right-wing media, books, explainers?
I know Lemmy isn’t normally the best place to search for this, but are there any high-quality right-wing explainers, or modern books, or media outlets?...
If you or somebody you know ever fell for a romance scam, how did you or the person fall for it?
And when did you / the person you know realize he was scammed?...
Is anyone using PixelFed? How is your experience so far?
An update regarding the future of m/AskKbin (where we are headed towards) - AskKbin - kbin.social (kbin.social)
Hello everyone, check out my announcement post linked above and if you don’t know who I am, check out my past post to learn more about me and It would mean a lot of you show your support for my future iniatives inside the fediverse!...
Mastodon forms new U.S. non-profit (blog.joinmastodon.org)
The Slow Fedi Movement: Toward a Green, Independent, and Equitable Fediverse (thedabbler.patatas.ca)
The Fediverse - especially the microblogging side of it - has deep issues when it comes to environmental sustainability....
Bluesky backs a project that would let Mastodon apps, like Ivory, work with its network (techcrunch.com)
Happy 10 million! According to FediDB, we have hit 10 million users across the Fediverse! (lemmy.world)
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