For me, I hate the influencer culture around many of these things. On paper, loops, and the like, are good ideas, but when you fill it with people with MBAs trying to sell you things, it feels fake and goes to shit. My experience so far with the fediverse is that it feels generally organic and I have no reason to believe loops would be any different.

Lemmy

I highly recommend waterfox

Thank you for your service

Sorry, I stopped playing factorio on my work Linux computer. I will play next month to get us back up.

Watch out, you might upset the emacs crowd.

I back a running trainer on Kickstarter called Vi. When I got it is was insanely uncomfortable, drained my phone battery on an hour via the companion app and did not work for runs longer than 10 minutes. It was absolutely dog shit.

Studies find that the vast majority of users on a platform are passive participants, the vast majority only look, a smaller group looks and comments and finally an even smaller group looks, comment and post. The key to growing any community is to find or be an active poster. It’s also an investment, if you post and get only 1 to 2 reactions, that’s okay, it takes time. It also means that more people see it and didn’t react.

In your example the NBA sub, I am on it and comment from time to time, but don’t have the sources or time to post, but if someone took, at least, the links from reddit and posted them here, it’s a start. I know NBA reddit has a lot of good discussions which you can’t replicate here without more people, but the posting of articles and links is a start.

I look forward to meeting 45 year old male Linux nerd and 23 year old femboy Linux nerds.

Gamer glasses

That will get him, changing the logo of an app that relies on monthly users for revenue. You showed him by doing nothing.

Broken clock.

X gon give it to ya

Mono color t shirt and pants or shorts depending on the weather. WFT now, but also the same in the office.

It really whips the llamas ass.

Andrew WK

Until you listen harder.

If you are wondering where you are on the curve, you likely aren’t too bad. Simply recognizing that you may not know everything is a bit step along the curve

20-30 is too old for Leo to be concerned with.

Socialist countries are not, the entire Scandinavian block are super socialist, and not authoritarian.

As for Communist countries, no one has actually implemented communism, only in name. Communism means the workers, not the state, control the means of production. The state controlling them allows for bad actors to seize control.

The printing press. It allowed us for the first time to share knowledge at a scale we only dreamed of.