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No worries. You’re not the first one who went in this rant, and I ensure you won’t be the last.

I agree with you. Sometimes we all feel like beta users of this fairly new platform. And much can be improved before “mainstream” adoption. But let me see if I can help you wrap your head arround some of your concerns.

About you not be logged on Lemmy.ml, I think it helps if you think of “Lemmy” the same as “Email with votes”. You don’t expect to be logged on you Gmail account when you access Hotmail.com, but you still can read messages from @hotmail.com accounts, even as those two sites are managed by different companies / entities.

Transfer account is something lacking, yes. And I think its a feature on the backlog for lemmy devs, cause other similar services has it, like Mastodon.

UI should not be a different instance, and I don’t think it is. I have an account on sh.itjust.works and I can use the same login and password on oldsh.itjust.works. So if you have problem with old.lemmy.world, you have all the rights to complain with whatever entity is running your instance.

Well… That’s it. I hope that helps. If you have any further questions, I encourage you to send a message to any of lemmy.world’s mod or adm. Different from reddit, the adms of lemmy tend to listen to its users.

Not in the default web app. Lemmy provides an API endpoint, so third party clients can list liked posts.

I use Boost and it shows me on my profile screen.

this is what happened to Linus Tech Tips channel: https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/24/23654996/linus-tech-tips-channel-hack-session-token-elon-musk-crypto-scam

Yes

decimeter is a good measure because one cubic decimeter (1 dm³) equals one liter ( 1L )

That depends if your instance has one or have someone already subscribed to one community with content like that.

I’ve found two instances that specialize in nsfw content: lemmynsfw.com (requires login to see nsfw) and pornlemmy.com

If your instance has no problems with that content, subscribing to communities on those instances may help other cultured people such as yourself in the future.

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Theme: https://youtu.be/BwbHW8MeHDU

Enough said

I used to listen while commuting, but since now I work from home, I tend to listen while doing the dishes.

I’ve just tested it. You just need to tag the community in the text of your Pixelfed post.

See here: https://pixelfed.social/i/web/post/587303441777627505 and here: https://bolha.forum/post/15364

No. Lemmy (and any other FediVerse service) can be targeted for take over from any corporation. But there’s a few things that prevents from thinks like… Idk, Facebook buying Instagram or Musk buying Twitter:

1. The source code of Lemmy is open. Anyone can just take the code and create another “Lemmy alternative” in case of a buy out.
2. The underlying protocol (Activity Pub) is open too, and managed by W3C (which manages other things like the HTTP protocol). So I think would be very hard for it to highjack to only work for one company.
3. You are right, a company can create or buy an instance or another similar service (and probably will, see Threads from Instagram). But they cannot interfere with the other ones. If the instance you’re in was bought and you don’t like the new owners, you can just create another account in another instance and keep following the same communities and content (because of the protocol I mentioned) and having the same experience. Unlike what happened to closed services like reddit that you cannot follow subreddits from here.

Tl;Dr: we are not free of corporate interest, but we have tools to prevent a corporate dominance.

You know, I’ve seen worse than hate here. I’ve seen apathy.

Throwing him in Tartarus

I’m reading The Amber Spyglass, by Philip Pullman