Can you explain what the issue is? I think it's all but inevitable that one server will become the "default" server that most people will create an account on first. As they learn more about how everything works, they may choose to create another account on a server with different rules that suite them better. That flow seems much easier to me than putting pressure on new users to pick the "right" server from them off the bat.
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Fried rice. It takes a good bit of technique, but I was able to practice a lot and get good at it while living somewhere where I had a high temperature wok burner. Now that I have the technique down, I can manage pretty well in an ordinary skillet on an electric stove, and it's super easy and quick once you know what' you're doing.
Streaky bacon is just "bacon" to us Americans, right? I'm surprised none of the bacon goes in the loaf. Does the fat from the bacon penetrate into the loaf while baking? I would expect a 95% lean meatloaf to be quite dry.
It will happen over time. Lemmy and Beehaw are still infinitesimally small compared to reddit. Trying to push people onto other servers right now is extreme premature optimization.
Maybe it's just because I never really "got" Twitter, but this seems like a boring tautological argument to me. A more interesting question would be whether we even care? Platforms come and go. For some reason people seem to have decided that platforms have gotten "too big to fail", but it's clearly not the case.
Your "hard currency" is inherently deflationary. This may seem good to you since it means your dollar is worth more tomorrow than it is today, but the same is true for everyone else's dollars too. The net result is to discourage spending across the entire economy and that leads to much worst outcomes. There is a good reason that central banks aim for a small amount of inflation rather than zero or negative inflation.
There's good reason for setting a maximum bound on the width though. It's much harder on the eyes to read long lines of text. That said, I do think Lemmy goes a bit overboard, and I would really like to see all of the non-post content on the right side anchored to the right edge rather than centered.
Why not? Granted I only get through 1 or 2 books a month, but it's a minuscule part of my budget. I can't say I've looked into it, but I assume it's also the best way to actually support the author.
I use KUbutu at work and have tinkered with Arch (and recently the arch-based Manjaro) for many years on personal computers.
In my opinion, setting up a desktop Arch install is more work than it's worth, but wrapping it behind Manjaro makes the experience much better and the Arch wiki is a treasure trove of information about all thinks Linux.
Ubuntu, regardless of flavor, is the boring white bread of Linux distros IMO. There's nothing really wrong with it, but it sure doesn't excite me in any way shape or form.
Slightly off topic, but is there a proper way to link communities across nodes? If I click that link, it (obviously) takes me to lemmy.ca, but what I really want is to go to that community on my home node.
That's actually a really good point. There's an optimum number of users that's obviously orders of magnitude higher than where Lemmy is at right now, but it's probably an order of magnitude lower than reddit's current position. If reddit's changes could drive the most technologically literate 10-20% of reddit's user base over here, that might be a very good thing indeed.
I've seen this come up a ton, but what do you want instead? Pretty much every website limits line lengths on comments (for good reason) and it makes a lot more sense for the text to go in the middle of the screen than on the left IMO.
I do wish that the stuff to the right of the comments would anchor to the right side of the screen instead of the right side of the content area though.