Chances are loan forgiveness would push a conversation regarding tuition fees in general, and would ultimately make university free / affordable instead.
Maybe.
matt
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Probably your own personally hosted one. No instance is fully unbiased.
But if you were to post things that instances don't like, they may defederate from you.
No, Squabbles is its own platform. It isn't federated so the UX is simpler, which makes it more popular amongst some people.
Feel like a lot of answers are getting really technical here, which is not what you're asking for.
Basically each platform has many of the same concepts, being things like users, groups, likes, boosts, posts, replies, and so on. Then, each platform interacts with those things in a certain way.
So for example, you could search my handle @[email protected] on Mastodon, then any sort of post I make on Lemmy will be shown on your feed as if I was posting on Mastodon. Comments are considered "replies", so wouldn't show up directly, but do show up on the profile page under replies.
You can also follow users on other platforms on Mastodon, put their handle into search and you can follow them the same way, so a user posting something on Pixelfed will appear in your Mastodon feed, and a user posting something on PeerTube will appear as a Mastodon post in your feed.
Other platforms are similar to Mastodon, such as Misskey and Pleroma, and they work as you'd expect as they're another take on the microblog format. Just follow people and post.
Lemmy has somewhat bad interaction with non-Lemmy platforms, only really working well with Kbin, and with limited interaction with Mastodon. However the concept is mostly the same: On Mastodon, users can mention the community (which is a group technically) and then Lemmy will pick up the post through the mention and post it to the group.
So for example, you write something like:
Hello world!
This is a test post on Lemmy
And it will show up as a post on Lemmy in the Fediverse community on lemmy.ml with the title Hello world!, with the rest being the post's content. Can also put a link, but I'm not 100% on the syntax since I never really looked into it.
As for posting on Mastodon from Lemmy - this is currently not possible, nor is following any Mastodon user, since right now Lemmy only follows groups.
There's a lot more platforms out there and they all interact with different ones in different ways, you just kind of have to experiment! The most important thing though is that you have users you can follow (on most platforms) and things you can post, which will display on all platforms where people are following you.
I mean yeah, it's gonna get hotter as time goes on, I agree, I'm mostly just asking if it's going to be 40C in July this time. While I do need to prepare for it, I'd rather not spend on it just yet if I don't have to this year.
I declare this post fake news because I do not want to believe 40C is happening in July.
...it's not really happening, right!? I already think 30C is bad enough.
The only way for people to move is for the other platforms to:
- Offer something that others don't.
- People are already there.
You saw this all the time on Reddit, people said they won't try anything new unless it already has a community as big as Reddit, but if this is the default opinion, how does anything new emerge?
I also love Matrix, but I know zero people who use it because everyone is just on Discord because everyone else is there.
No, these stats are specifically how many users are active that have their accounts on Lemmy.world.
Since this is the "fediverse", it makes much more sense to use general terms than things specific to a platform. There's already /kbin, and there may be other link aggregator software platforms that appear in the future, and having a standardised set of vocabulary that all platforms can use makes it much easier for everyone to understand.
/kbin calls them magazines and there's sometimes been some confusion over the term and Lemmy having communities, even though they are the same thing. All the microblogging platforms on the fediverse for example just have "posts" and "boosts", there is no specific term for them like "tweets" on Twitter (there was the "toot" thing for Mastodon for a while, but it was quickly rolled back and hasn't been official for several years).
Don't forget that when you post on Lemmy, you're not posting "to Lemmy", you're posting to the wider "fediverse".
Edit: Rewrite
Matrix is a protocol, rather than an app. It's also not part of the "fediverse" per se, as the fediverse generally refers to the social media platforms over ActivityPub (Mastodon, Lemmy, Kbin, Pleroma, Pixelfed, and so on). It is a federated protocol, however.
The important thing about federated protocols is that it lets people use their own choice of client/app, and can talk to everyone else using the same protocol. So for Matrix, you get Element, Cinny, NeoChat, etc... and can talk to all the same people, unlike the way Discord or Facebook Messenger works, where you must use the same one.
Same concept for the ActivityPub protocol, you just pick your favourite platform such as Mastodon or Lemmy, and you can potentially interact with everyone else using the same protocol.
Unfortunately Revolt is just an open-source Discord clone, and doesn't federate.
God, I've had the same experience. For me, I installed Debian 12 and it ran flawlessly with no issues, but my mother doesn't want to use Windows anymore (she is a computer technician, so not the "web browser and email only" type of PC user) so I recommended the same as me but issues just kept cropping up all the time and it's like... how!?
Maybe it's just the way regular people use a PC vs how we might do so, and that leads to more issues, but not sure. There's just so many use cases and edge cases that keep cropping up whenever a friend or family member tries Linux that turns them back to Windows.
Only "accessibility apps" are exempt from fees. There's also no fees if less than 100 API calls per minute are made as well, although not sure exactly what 100 API calls would translate into for browsing Reddit in practice.