Both. Obviously platforms with attention based algorithms are worse.

But platforms like Lemmy, Ao3 and xkcd are plenty addictive. Oh and Wikipedia. Wikipedia is one of the worst offenders! I don’t think the people that developed any of those want to exploit us.

The instance is the part after the @. They host users and communities. Admins manage the instance.

The community is the thing you subscribe to. Moderators manage the community.

I’m pretty new.

Lemmy is great. It doesn’t have as many active hyper specific communities as reddit. But there are still plenty of active communities.
There is no attention based algorithm. But the more basic sortings work well enough. I already spend too much time here.

I tried mastodon and Twitter a few years back. I still have absolutely no idea how that whole microblogging thing is supposed to work. Am I just supposed to scream into the void? Same thing with pixelfed.

If people link peertube videos from Lemmy, peertube works well. But the feed needs work. I don’t really care about the topic of the video. So the filter by topic isn’t that useful. I’d like to filter by language. And then find well researched videos by someone who is enthusiastic about a topic. Any topic. I don’t know if there simply aren’t that many or if I just can’t find them.

I think attention based algorithms could help retain new users. I think there are many who try fediverse platforms and just don’t stay long. And if we get more users that stay longer, we get more content, and then niches can form.

To not lose current users, and just because of mental health, it would probably be better if the attention based feeds could be turned off in the settings.

Exactly. Because the legislative arm of the government did their job in that case.

I don’t think reddit even has an option for alttexts. Lemmy really encourages it.

Social media networks without attention based algorithms also aren’t quite as addictive.

It’d be the Gategate. It would only be called Billgate if Bill was a woman.

They are also supposed to limit freedoms, where they infringe on the freedom of others.

For example the freedom to shoot people infringes on the freedom to be free from physical harm. So it should be limited.

Food is at the bottom. With all the other physiological needs that form the foundation for the other, less important, needs.

That’s how pyramids work.

Then even a well stocked instrument library probably wouldn’t have it

Ants farm. So farming is a hobby?

Imagine all the terrible music we were spared because talentless randoms couldn’t just pick up an instrument for free.

Have you installed bugs at all of your neighbors houses or something?

Probably not, because if you did you’d be more annoyed at people who play their instruments well. That requires hours of boring exercise that don’t sound well at all. And even when they practice a piece, they’ll usually practice 4 bars on repeat, for an hour.

Self actualization might be at the very top of the pyramid of needs. But that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t have it.

With most woodwinds, you probably have to get your own reed for ~3,50€. But the rest can be cleaned well enough.

When my concert band lends out instruments they have to get a professional service at the local music store when you return them. They’ll replace any consumable parts that are missing, if you haven’t already.

Of course that would probably be a bit more difficult in a library setting, where the lease lasts only a very short time.

It currently has 214 518 English original works that aren’t smut

I added the link just seconds ago. Apparently looking up new terms is too difficult.

I have the feeling the voters in this tread have no idea what a company union is. There’s a reason they are banned by international labor law!

And company unions do as well.

Company unions don’t work.

And if union busting is encouraged by the government, being part of a regular union might not be worth the sacrifice.

AO3 is not predominantly smut. It allows smut. So people go there to find it. But most works aren’t smut. And it has a really powerful filtering system, so you can find what you want.

Most of the time I go there for humour.