I just want to say thanks for such an honest and comprehensive explanation. I don't think I have much to offer, but I feel very welcomed (is that a word?) here. The choices you made and the ethos you hold yourself and the instance against seem very well intentioned and a good way to circumvent some of the nastiest things social networks brought to this world. There are lots of places in the internet to get ethically subjective content, for those who want it. This doesn't need to be a place for it.

The "growing" part of the network project it's very subjective. Of course that a network needs a good amount of users to generate enough content and discussion, but at the same time, crowds usually don't add much to the niceness of any place.

Thanks once again for creating this.

Oh no no no. Sorry, it was probably my fault since english is not my native language. I was referring to theirs instances! in your example, the neo-nazis instances.

In other words, I was trying to say that I agree with instances (like beehaw) being able to block what they consider to be toxic instances, but I'm against removing instances from the lemmy fediverse if that's even possible. Like, removing them from the network.

Sorry, I didn't understood what you meant. Especially the parenthesis part.

Take my reply with a grain of salt because I'm also very new to this. From what I understood, although you can create instances and interact with everyone, other instances can choose to cut ties (blocking) with your instance. For example, beehaw blocked lemmygrad.ml which can be seen at https://beehaw.org/instances (on the bottom of this page there's a link in "Instances"). So, if your Lemmy account is on Beehaw, you won't be seeing lemmygrad.ml posts. I don't even know if it's possible to comment on them (maybe someone can elaborate on this).

I wish the fediverse is able to contain all the ideas, all the political positions and that disconnecting/blocking an instance is only used for behaviors like spamming. Not giving every political stance the opportunity to be a part of the same world fuels extremists.

Beehaw and other instances can kick all the users with far-right beliefs. That's fair. But Lemmy users shouldn't be blocked to listen to or even interact with them, in their own instances, if they wanted. Don't help creating political ghettos.

I'm not familiar with a lot of the stuff you just explained :) so I'll just compliment you on the great work! It looks great.

Yeah, I guess you're right.

That is very cool, thanks!

You may need to select multiple languages (CTRL+). In my case that was the problem. I now have "undetermined, english and portuguese".

I just saw the video and was impressed by the amount of detail Apple puts in their "apple way of doing what already exists" but at the same time really discouraged to even try this stuff. Can't explain much better than saying: everything seems dystopian. Like Marques says: who would be at their child birthday party with a headset on their head? I just think it's another step in the long stair of individualism.

No. I didn't even tried Agricola, because I started exploring boardgames a bit late in life, so Caverna was already out by that time and I read that it gathers the best parts of Agricola and Le Havre.

Olá. O outro lado do rio é sempre relativo :)

Caverna is missing!

Great Post, really inspiring. But I'm mesmerised by the design. How did you achieve this? Is it a template or did you built it from scratch? I'm returning to blog after leaving ten years ago and this is exactly the kind of look I was looking for. Congratulations.

That makes everything clearer. I see now that instances can be created with completely different rules (i had already noticed the "no downvotes" option) Thank you for that.

It's great to have all this different flavours in the save universe.

My next inquiry will be about clicking that colored symbol (maybe a fediverse icon?!) and being taken to a mastodon page. That really confused me. Especially because I'm also on mastodon, with the same username but the two accounts (lemmy/beehaw and mastodon) are not connected... It's really confusing for me.

It's going pretty good because I think I'm finally making some progress towards being more focused. Although I need to confess that was pretty thrilled with the onboarding on lemmy and checked it a lot during the weekend.

Apart from that I'm cutting ties with general stuff and news and focusing on: books (reading The Stranger right now), one single magazine about current issues in the world, hearing good music and starting to play an old RPG after great advice I received on c/gaming. I'll workout after work and then start a campaign.

Cool. Probably because of saving also, right? Since it's a game you can play for a long time...

Lisbon, Portugal.

Thanks. Do people play Dwarf Fortress Classic or the Steam version more?

I didn't knew the game and a couple of replies mentioned it. Must say that it looks like something extremely fun and addicting but also very daunting!