It relates to Lemmy’s roots among self-hosters - the idea being that, as a user of Arch btw, someone could simply subscribe to whatever content they wanted, and then not have to pull down and retain stuff that they did not want (which could also be a bit dangerous, e.g. child pornography).
But if you want to contribute to the codebase the functionality that you are talking about, that’s awesome.
It won’t solve the major problems though: lack of overall content, lack of organization of content (though here the Lemmy alternative PieFed has an amazing start in its Topics feature - one day not too far distant I expect PieFed will overtake Lemmy), and contentious users that will troll and make fun of ESPECIALLY people from a Western nation (do an experiment: using GOOGLE, not Duck Duck Go or Kagi or anything other than what a non-technical normie would do, and look at the top instance that it recommends, and maybe count the number of posts that make fun of the USA, which btw is where the vast majority of Reddit users are from). Trying to avoid the trolls here on Lemmy takes an EXTREME amount of effort, which to me explains why literally 100% of the people that I’ve told irl about Lemmy have actually chided me for having recommended it to them (and when you do that experiment, you should see it first-hand yourself, although tbf now that the USA election season is over perhaps the rhetoric has been toned down? I haven’t tried lately).
Edit: here is a prior example that occurred just prior to the election, informing us how Biden and Trump were exactly tHe SaMe ThO:
I believe the lesson attempted to be imparted here is how despite the fact that Russia and China and North Korea are “not” doing genocide (any attempts to say otherwise result in site-wide bans), it is the USA that is bad, and more generally capitalism and the West (here, it helps to realize that Russia and China are “not” capitalist, in this formulation).
Anyway, the most important bits are how: (1) Google searches directs people to this instance, among all of them, bc it was one of the first and most popular, and (2) it has its feed set to show only Local posts by default for new users. They will see such anti-Western propaganda, and will miss all the other great content on other instances across the Fediverse. And then go back to Reddit complaining that Lemmy is the place made by tankies who got kicked out of Reddit for being too extreme. Which, tbf, is the actual truth.
It relates to Lemmy’s roots among self-hosters - the idea being that, as a user of Arch btw, someone could simply subscribe to whatever content they wanted, and then not have to pull down and retain stuff that they did not want (which could also be a bit dangerous, e.g. child pornography).
But if you want to contribute to the codebase the functionality that you are talking about, that’s awesome.
It won’t solve the major problems though: lack of overall content, lack of organization of content (though here the Lemmy alternative PieFed has an amazing start in its Topics feature - one day not too far distant I expect PieFed will overtake Lemmy), and contentious users that will troll and make fun of ESPECIALLY people from a Western nation (do an experiment: using GOOGLE, not Duck Duck Go or Kagi or anything other than what a non-technical normie would do, and look at the top instance that it recommends, and maybe count the number of posts that make fun of the USA, which btw is where the vast majority of Reddit users are from). Trying to avoid the trolls here on Lemmy takes an EXTREME amount of effort, which to me explains why literally 100% of the people that I’ve told irl about Lemmy have actually chided me for having recommended it to them (and when you do that experiment, you should see it first-hand yourself, although tbf now that the USA election season is over perhaps the rhetoric has been toned down? I haven’t tried lately).
Edit: here is a prior example that occurred just prior to the election, informing us how Biden and Trump were exactly tHe SaMe ThO:
I believe the lesson attempted to be imparted here is how despite the fact that Russia and China and North Korea are “not” doing genocide (any attempts to say otherwise result in site-wide bans), it is the USA that is bad, and more generally capitalism and the West (here, it helps to realize that Russia and China are “not” capitalist, in this formulation).
Anyway, the most important bits are how: (1) Google searches directs people to this instance, among all of them, bc it was one of the first and most popular, and (2) it has its feed set to show only Local posts by default for new users. They will see such anti-Western propaganda, and will miss all the other great content on other instances across the Fediverse. And then go back to Reddit complaining that Lemmy is the place made by tankies who got kicked out of Reddit for being too extreme. Which, tbf, is the actual truth.