Reputation, word of mouth, history, etc. Same way you decide anything else you consume.

How do you pick where you go shopping? You pick the closest one. Then if it turns out to be bad, you go elsewhere.

How does any of this matter when Trump won the popular vote? You can’t get around the fact that more than 50% of voters voted for Trump.

I totally agree that your political system is fucked, but let’s not fool ourselves into thinking that Trump won because he cheated the system or the election was rigged. Trump won because he convinced people to vote on him, and that’s the real problem.

Why are you worried about admin abuse? If you are worried that your admin will abuse you, you should switch to an instance you trust more.

On a gaming PC, what arch distro would you use?

So what distro do you use? I definitely am also including gaming in the considerations.

Speaking of debian - anyone here running debian testing as a daily driver? I really enjoy debian as a kind of “default” Linux but the rare updates and the need to upgrade the whole system when a major update hits annoys me, so rolling release feels better, but I’m worried Debian Testing is unstable? But I’ve heard it’s not so bad? Anyone got any opinion on that?

Oh yea absolutely. The point of going elsewhere is not for more privacy. The point is to make the content here neutral and in a sense unsellable. Nobody can buy your data on the fediverse, cause it’s just there, freely given. Anyone can access it, so nobody can sell it.

Yea my big problem is also that I need way more storage than what I have on my phone.

I’ve never personally had these issues. Sent large files without problem and never had discovery issues.

I’d love to use this but I just mostly don’t use multiple devices at the same time, so I don’t see how the sync would ever happen.

Been using it for a long time, it’s great!

How are you supposed to pronounce it?

I have used KeePass for many, many years and have never run into this. Besides, I usually have a copy of the database on some other device so I’m not too worried

I don’t think this is a problem. If the communities are similar enough, one will eventually win and be the bigger and main one. If they are different enough, they can continue coexisting.

I personally still feel like this brings the communities too close.

the Lemmy devs are very much against merged comments

For good reason perhaps? It merges distinct communities together, making communities less distinct. Different communities can have different moderation and participation standards and norms. Merging them I feel is a bad idea.

Tbf a substantial amount of voters did see the comment - at the time of writing, 297 upvotes on the comment vs 483 upvotes on the post, or ~61%. So actually most people do dig through the comments, if the upvote count is something to go by at least.

Anyone who doesn’t read comments is unlikely to read reader added context, so you’re probably not getting a large amount of the remaining 39% of people to get the context just because you add some extra UI feature.

Besides, explaining the context is a much longer affair than a title and just wouldn’t fit. It’s not like I would even say that the title of this post is misleading in the first place, it’s actually pretty to-the-point.

There’s also a chance that people will get the wrong idea about posts without the context - i.e. that posts without reader added context are super truthful somehow. I feel that people should rather accept that all titles of a few sentences are missing context. That is after all the point of a title - to summarize and bring only the most important information, which inevitably leads to a loss of context.

It is implemented. It’s known as “comments”. You are looking at it. There’s no need for any particular UI feature for this stuff.

We ought to moderate well and do better than elsewhere though. Well, at least I would hope that users would gravitate towards instances that moderate their users better, so we get more civil behavior.

Well, what is it then?