hot is completely useless because its filled with content that's less than an hour old with virtually no comments. its very poor quality content.
dmmeyournudes
joined 2 years ago
its not about the instances, those are actually hindering growth by dividing communities across instances and defederating them. lemmy is basically several copies of reddit in a trench coat pretending to be a social network.
we don't need more memes, we need people to start going to the games, movies, shows, and hobbies they like and making posts.
until personal interest groups are populated people will not use this site. its basically 1 big meme sub right now with some tech and politics sprinkled on top.
your car is capable of going over 100mph, the odds of you going far beyond that is very low unless you're a complete moron.
the entire plot line about dobby is that he's extremely strange for a house elf. there is not a single other example of an elf like him in any of the books and every single other house elf admonish him for wanting to be free.
that won't change until the site expands enough to populate the smaller communities you are personally interested in and they fix the hot algorithm to be like reddits. right now hot is like rising, so it's useless for finding the best content from the day. also problems with federating content from 12 copies of the same exact community copied to 8 instances fighting for the front page makes it even more stale.
the slaves don't want to be free though. they near universally hate the idea of being freed and are terrified of being given clothes.
and the enchantment makes them sad when that happens. being servants makes them happy. that's how they work in this world.
you can tell no one has actually read the books, because this is addressed at least twice. they don't share their magic because they are a massive minority on earth. in the entirety of the british isles there are less than 3000 children under 17. in the previous centuries the wizards had be persecuted to near extinction. additionally, they don't want muggles to go to wizards to solve everyone of their problems. these are the people who where shitting in the corner until muggles invented the toilet.
the house elves literally enslave themselves tho. the wizards aren't the ones casting the spell to enslave them, they just are.
active is about what posts have a lot of comments recently.