Personally, I'm tunning it out. The only time I dive into it is around elections so I can make an informed vote. But, after that it seems like I'm utterly powerless to change anything.
I used to think being informed would come in handy to change people's minds, but that never happens. People have to change their own minds.
See also: https://lemmy.today/post/22524765
My grampa made it to 104. I think running his store helped.
Shortcut: use Tailscale to create your own private network and avoid hosting on the big, bad Internet. Otherwise, you really have to be careful on how you protect your services.
Minor downside (or upside) is that you'll have to install the Tailscale app on each device you want to make part of the network.
This made hosting at home a lot easier for me.
Update: Ah! I misread the post. Tailscale doesn't make sense for this use case. My bad! 😅
7 years of updates is nice
True actually. Browsing Subscribed is better than All. Although, you have to venture out into All to find new communities to subscribe to.
I also found switching between Hot and Active sorts mixes things up.
You have to block A LOT of communities. In fact, blocking communities is more important than subscribing to them!
Also: https://lemmy.today/post/22524765
Also: Voyager (or other apps) with filters for keywords.
Fucking noice, dude. 👏 Honestly, yeah, why even diamonds. They brainwashed us good.
Lab-grown rocks
When I was getting married a few years ago, I remember thinking fuck real diamonds lab-grown are literally the same thing. I remember getting some push back from some weirdos about how "real" diamonds are some how better or how people will think I'm a cheapskate or how people will feel bad for my wife...
Well, fast forward a few years and literally nobody cares, thinks about, or has said anything negative about my wife's ring. We are both 1000000% happy and satisfied with the decision to buy lab grown.
Well, that was disappointing. I guess that explains why he deleted his Mastadon account recently.
Forgejo
I believe https://codeberg.org/ is a hosted Forgejo instance. It has a more familiar UI, similar to GitHub.
Although, they have restrictions on the types of projects they're willing to host.
Hell yes. lemmy.world has always been slow for me. That's why I switched!
Yeah, you're right. Bad advice actually. Oops.