honestly it destroys lemmy experience for me because it makes lemmy look like a bot-cloned reddit. i barely ever see genuine posts at all.

dude… have you been printing with steel cable instead of filament?

i hope it’s not a plug that"s going to be pulled often because in this case a complete defederation of everything from everything is just a matter of time.

doesn’t it all have that old fidonet vibe… you also could participate in anything as long as your uplinks agreed on what echoconferences they subscribe to.

i’m new to this so please excuse me if it’s something obvious. the linked page says it doesn’t matter which instance i’m registered with, just pick one. i followed this advice and i’m here now. i’m subscribed to a bunch of communities from other instances too. so what difference does it make that i’m at sdf and not somewhere else, where is the lesser drama to be found in all this?