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I honestly don’t remember. I think I was actively looking for a federated reddit-like site, because I really liked the concept of a federated platform as an alternative to the monopolistic social media giants, and I stumbled upon a link to lemmy somewhere. The project seemed great and I stayed.


So, let me get this straight, you’re saying this chaos is good for the US and that’s why Russia escalated it into actual full blown war chaos? That makes as much sense as me saying cats are dogs. Is everything in your world the US’s fault?

Us naval superiority is also in no way choking global trade, China is the EU’s largest total trade partner. Also, 90% of non-bulk cargo worldwide is moved by container shipping, and that’s how Chinese goods enter Europe, Ukraine has nothing to do with it. Russia and EU were trading gas just fine before this war, did the US somehow force Russia to invade?

It’s like, I get it, I hate the US’s global imperialism too, and their hypocrisy, but can you be at least a little bit more objective? This tunnel-visioned blind attitude isn’t helpful.


Kubuntu. KDE Plasma is as Windows like as Mint’s Cinnamon but looks more modern and fresh, imo. And Kubuntu is Ubuntu so you get all the support from the large Ubuntu community.

I wish there was a Mint KDE distro.


She can test out different distros in her browser on https://distrotest.net/index.php

Really though, if she’s just gonna use it for text processing, web browsing and emailing it’s more about the DE than the distro.

Mint, Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Elementary, Fedora… should all be good choices.

I think it’s most important to teach her about the differences, no more exes, but instead repo, debs, appimages, flatpaks, and stuff like that. Watching those recent Linus videos might give you good insight in what differences might confuse her.



I have ideas on how this can be addressed, but I think I’ve rambled enough for now.

Please do, even if it’s a very rough draft kind of an idea, I wanna hear.


Latinx is a term created and imposed by American anglophones on hispanophones and lusophones and doesn’t make sense in these languages. Both Spanish and Portuguese are gendered languages (even words like chair, or bottle, or whatever, have a gender), and on top of it if you want a gender neutral term there are better ones that work better in these languages, like Latine or just simply Latin American. Less than 5℅ of Latin Americans have even heard of the term, and even less approve of it. It’s not adopted by the community it’s imposed onto to, to “represent”. It’s patronizing and a bit ironic. Also, there’s the whole linguistic activism side to the whole thing. Latin Americans are perfectly aware of inequalities between the genders, without having this term externally forced upon them in a misguided attempt at inclusion.

That’s at least how I understand it as an outsider from a different continent.


  1. Custom multi-communities akin to multireddits, and also, cross-instance multi-communities.

  2. If you log into your account on a post, I’d prefer to be taken back to the post, instead of the front page, as it is now.

  3. MoAr federation (for example, the ability to follow mastodon accounts from Lemmy.


Makes sense. I guess I was subconsciously going off of how linking to just r/subreddit works on reddit. The URL version is sufficiently noob friendly tho, I think.


Oh, I see, the ”https://” part is necessary, I tried it without before and it didn’t work.


I don’t know if this has been discussed already, my apologies if it has, but I feel that specific search syntax for communities discovery isn’t very noob friendly. I don’t know if most people would know they have to do it in that email format, let alone they should add an exclamation point before it. Maybe either a small syntax notice should be added next to the search bar or maybe just have additional syntax in the form of ”community@instance.tld” and ”instance.tld/c/community” do the job as well? I’m aware this would return regular results as well (preferably below the community), but no harm in that as far as I can tell. If the search would add unnecessary load on the infrastructure just add a small prompt below the community ”Did you mean to search for ”instance.tld/c/community” in the content (posts and comments)? Click here." Certainly far more intuitive for new users. Just my 2 cents.


You can think of Lemmy and federation like email. You can receive and read yahoo mail on your gmail account, but you obviously can’t login to yahoo with your gmail account. Lemmy works the same way more or less except these "emails” (posts and comments and upvotes etc… ) aren’t private but public. You can see and interact with lemmy.ca’s posts from here on lemmy.ml by clicking on "all” as opposed to ”local” on the front-page. That’s where the posts from lemmy.ca get ”pulled” to lemmy.ml, and if you comment the comment gets sent to lemmy.ca.