Rottcodd

Well... sort of.

Trump never has held and never will hold any coherent political views of any sort. His entire focus is on himself, and the rest of the world only matters to the degree that he might manipulate people and things to feed his own ego, greed and lust.

So what'll likely actually happen is that his mindless supporters will rage, the psychopaths who want the world that having him in power will bring will fan the flames of that rage while whispering in his ear, and yes - he'll go full fascist. But not because of anything to do with fascism specifically - I doubt he can even grasp the broadest concept of it. It's simply that that will be, and to some notable degree will be contrived into being, the thing that he will believe will lead him to what he really wants - simply to feed his bottomless ego, greed and lust.

It's like a 15 year old got ahold of his mom's credit card and bought a social media corporation, and now he's up in his room, all juiced up on Doritos and Mountain Dew, banging away at his keyboard and giggling to himself.

Those third party search tools already exist. I expect that apps will begin linking to them or even including their own version of the same function.

And really, it's vanishingly unlikely that somebody so dull-witted that they couldn't even find the most notable instance on a given topic if it wasn't already on their instance's All is going to end up on such an obscure instance in the first place.

Again, I don't think it's a usability problem at all - I think it's just people expecting the fediverse to be essentially identical to the monolithic corporate social media to which they're accustomed, then faulting it for not being so.

I block every one I see, without exception.

Right, but exactly because that's a thing that people value, the "problem" will be solved organically. Community searches already default to sorting by activity, so over time, one community will come to be seen as the de facto "main" community for that topic. Just as is the case on other forums, except over time and by consensus instead of from the start and by decree.

I'm not sure that most wouldn't, but yeah - I don't doubt that some wouldn't subscribe to multiple instances.

I had a whole section here about the notion that quantity equals quality and the benefits of barriers to entry and so on, but it felt digressive at best, so I'll just say that (with multiple provisos) I do at least see how it might be legitimately believed that redundant communities are an actual problem, so that's something.

Thanks for the responses.

See though, I still don't see the issue.

you probably still have the downside of the users — and therefore the content & comments — being spread too thin

How are they spread too thin?

This thread and the OP are on lemmy.ml. I'm on kbin.social. You're on lemmy.world. And the only reason I know all of that is because I checked each one. Until I checked each one, it was just a thread and I responded to it and you responded to me and it all just worked and there was no way to even notice that three different instances were involved, since it made zero difference.

If the mods of the communities had a tool to federate/merge at the community level, that gives the benefit of the network effect.

What benefit is that?

Right now, I can go into the list of communities on any instance and search for a subject and get all the communities that are about it. And yes, as I already noted, if I want all of them, then that means I have to click on more than one subscribe button - a few seconds of extra effort.

So the only "benefit" I see is saving myself that few seconds of extra effort, which hardly seems worth caring about.

I genuinely don't see a real problem.

For all the times I've seen people complain about this, I still don't see what the supposed problem is.

Yeah - it's just a tiny bit more effort to subscribe to three communities instead of one, but then that's it. It doesn't matter in the slightest from that point on, since all three of them are going to come up just the same in my feed.

I honestly think that there really isn't a problem - that really, there's no notable way in which anyone is actually negatively affected. It's just that it's different, and different is bad.

Of course they did.

The days in which businesses competed by trying to make the best possible product for the best possible price are dead and gone - sacrificed on the altar of shortsighted greed.

The current strategy is to make the shittiest possible product for the highest possible price, then try to manipulate things so that it sells anyway.

And that's been Tesla's strategy since day one.

You can make one and post it

Caught up with one I just stumbled across - Himegasaki Sakurako wa Kyoumo Fubin Kawaii! (Sakurako Himegasaki is Still Pitiably Cute Today).

It's basically a deconstruction of every romcom/harem trope in existence, all mashed together into one great big ball of stupidly funny craziness, and lots of fun.

And of course a bunch of updates to ongoing things, most notably the final chapter of Tugeneko's glorious Ueno-san wa Bukiyou.

It's not better than png.

It's smaller than png, but png is lossless and webp is very much not.