you can click through to the source material when it’s linked.

but nobody is doing that, and when I admit to doing it people tell me I’m deranged.

how does that even work?

like isn’t giving it the inputs of your groceries the same thing as making the list yourself?

or is more like they say ‘i want to cook tandoori chicken this week’ and it just pulls from a generic recipe the ingredients list?

Yeah, that’s true. One thing that drives me nuts about local elections is… there is no useful info on the candidates, not from themselves, not from news papers, not from anyone… it sucks.

almost all the ‘info’ about my local candidates was… arguments on Facebook about why candidate x or candidate y and an evil demonic force, or an angelic savior of the people.

most people don’t enjoy thinking. they also don’t enjoy running marathons.

because both things are painful. they are also time consuming.

they only becoming enjoyable or worthwhile when you have a sufficient level of practice. for someone who is a couch potato, running a marathon is impossible without months or years of hard work, and they also likely think marathon running is stupid and pointless and there is likely something ‘wrong’ with people who run marathons.

thinking and using your mental faculties are no different than your physical ones.

on reddit it would be 6000.

30K users is small potatoes. even niche subreddits have userbases larger than that.

hey don’t forget all the mental health communities here…

and which instance you start out on… is going to heavily influence your experience/content and get you branded/blocked by a lot of the userbase

activitypub is a protocol. like email.

instances are just what provider you want to use, gmail, hotmail, outlook, etc.

and the ‘platform’ lemmy, piefed, mastroton, pixelfed, is just the aesthetics

what, you don’t think it’s fun endlessly memeing about doomerism and murder?