Diamonds seem very much a part of the Relationship Escalator in the US. The fact that marketing has managed to insert it there doesn’t mean that it is meaningful to you though.

I often think about how some random person’s decision that many years ago created my entire family line.

I mean that doesn’t really require your grandpa to die for your family line not to happen. In many cases something as simple as taking an earlier bus or leaving a little early so your grandpa doesn’t meet your grandma would also do. In fact it is sort of freaky how a little one minute change in your schedule could potentially change the lives of dozens or hundreds of people. Looking left instead of right just as someone sneezes might put you in bed for a few days, stepping on something at the wrong angle might screw your ankle for days,… and those changes quickly spiral out of control in everyone’s future timeline for all the people you might interact with.

Are you talking about BGP or the big DNS-, CDN- or cloud hosters?

A lot of those community forks on Reddit were more related to the original communities growing too fast and then losing the original feeling than to powermods too (not all though).

I don’t think Reddit refugees in particular will be used to a search function that works.

Agreed. But part of the reason why they never report the numbers is that most of the readers don’t understand them anyway.

And a lot of the time it is not even just complex studies people don’t understand. There are also those who can’t even judge the magnitude of numbers, e.g. when it comes to spending or the magnitude of percentages (e.g. that 25000 occurrences of a minor crime in a year is not a lot if the country has dozens of millions of inhabitants)

The ability to set and enforce personal boundaries.

Basic arithmetic to the point where you can e.g. calculate things like a budget when money is tight.

Enough understanding of statistics and probability to be able to understand what numbers reported in news stories about events and politics mean.

Sometimes for me when I struggle with making progress e.g. programming it helps to just step away from the PC and just think through what the smallest possible thing is that will let me make progress, even a suboptimal solution can help as improving that iteratively later is much easier than trying to make something perfect from the start.

Ruby is used in some large, older existing projects (e.g. GitLab, Redmine, Puppet) but my impression is that a lot of them do not have very much active development of the Ruby parts going on any more.

After breakfast and before i go to bed.

Why not just build your animal sanctuary next to a beach and laugh at derpy land and sea animals? :-)

What do you mean by leaving your server if you don’t mean deleting your account?

Account deletion should be possible with the button at the bottom of your settings.

, that are not Federated by the instance my account is logged into.

How do you imagine that would work? Federation is what enables you to interact with anything on other instances in the first place.

Or do you just mean “add all communities on a remote instance to the list of communities you can search for locally at once”?

They probably mean that you can’t just scroll through and say “okay, I have seen everything created up to the point when I loaded this page” because some posts created earlier might only appear in your feed later.

You could try learning a programming language and helping with some open source software projects (or start your own). I would recommend Rust since it has very good tooling which cuts down on the tedious bits and it is a very well liked and used language (Lemmy is written in Rust as well).

Oh yeah, I completely forgot to mention the way the advertising industry has basically ignored every feedback from users for two decades or more by making ads ever more intrusive and obnoxious. They reap what they sow.

If you, as a creator, choose to use advertising to monetize your content you don’t respect the limited lifetime of the people consuming your content or their security or about the way the marketing and advertising industry is destroying our society, such as (not exhaustive, just off the top of my head right now)

• building a surveillance economy, destroying privacy in the process
• manipulating people into voting in certain ways that are harmful to them and others
• protecting harmful products from scrutiny (e.g. tobacco, alcohol, products with too much sugar or fat or low quality ingredients, the car and oil industries, corporate climate change denial,…)
• encouraging overconsumption both in terms of quantity and in terms of items or services they don’t really need
• destroying content platforms with their mantra “not advertiser friendly”, leading to dystopian self-censorship on e.g. Youtube

And then there is the way internet advertising can spread malware and compromise the security of websites in general.

If you do want to monetize content in other ways there are models such as subscriptions or Patreon-style that are a lot more respectful of the user.

Your post is a bit confusing. You seem to be using Lemmy to refer to lemmy.ml? and just .world to refer to lemmy.world? Or do you mean Lemmy as in all instances? Or Lemmy the software? Or the threadiverse in general?

No shit, Sherlock.