Thanks! Mlem does what I’m after

Yeah, I started on Voyager. Seeing channels and sidebar for the instance my account is registered to works and easy to find / navigate to.

For other instances, you say that you have to “go” to the other instance. I find it easy to go to a known community on the other instance. And I find it easy to find the sidebar for a known community on another instance. How do I go to the other instance and not the community though?

For example on load, it loads Post > Home (I think this is configurable in settings so not everyone but it’s not so important for these steps). Then you can click Communities in the menu. Then if you are subscribed to a community that is on a different instance you can click it and open it. When you open the sidebar, the sidebar is for that community, not the instance. I see no way to:

• Click on the instance
• Open the sidebar for the instance (not the community)
• See a list of channels on that instance

I clicked around a little, but sorry if I’m missing something obvious.

As an example of the difference in the sidebar for different instances you load these two URLs and compare:

• https://mander.xyz/
• https://lemmy.ml/

And the channels that would be nice to scroll separately are:

• https://mander.xyz/communities
• https://lemmy.ml/communities

Interestingly though, the sidebar for lemmy.ml doesn’t say much and wouldn’t have helped me with the behaviour that caused me to drop “asklemmy@lemmy.ml”. Someone explicitly said that the ml stood for Marxist Leninists and plenty of users tends to write as if that’s true and also be a bit more militant / ideological than I prefer in my interactions… but it’s completely missing from any mention in the sidebar.

I wonder if there is some metadata any viewers use that I could also sync between devices

What page I’m on. I’ve tried a few things that basically open you to the start again. Especially with PDFs (so opening research papers on the iPhone. Thats not really self hosting but part of the system that needs to work together).

I’ll update the post so people get this in first pass. Thanks!

The account is two days old!??

I wish there were block lists here like in Bluesky. I name them as groups of why I’m blocking them like “needlessly aggressive”.

Yeah, I was think there is easier momentum for non-hardware tech. Social media is mostly its users so if they leave there isn’t much. Disney showed some of the weaknesses of streaming services but they’re aren’t many non-US alternatives. There are YouTube alternatives but there most of the content creators are entrenched there. Most of the rest of Google’s offerings have European alternatives.

I wish there was momentum to boycott US tech companies

What specifically in the original post did you have issue with? There’s not a lot too that post, and you have agreed with part of it, so it seems like it would be faster to list out the issues

Here’s a review focused to some extent on how accurate the science in that book is:

https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/how-not-to-die-review#TOC_TITLE_HDR_2

The author seems pretty focused on pushing a single message so I’d be careful with that message myself. (As someone who aspires to have a diet that’s mostly vegetables with a few cheat days for meat.)

Fruits tend to get listed as low GI supporting the poster’s statement.

Also, you’re simplifying the chemistry and metabolic pathways to the point they sound the same when they’re obviously different. I’m not an expert but I as I understand it table sugar is short chain and good to go, fruits (if they’re not pre cooked) tend to be a bit more complicated and have a few more steps along the way (and I assume each requires some energy to unlock and also result in some chemical energy that isn’t completely digested). Also, what you’re saying goes a lot against what I understand from the carb count on the packet from fibre vs. what your body unlocks. That said, I’m very ignorant and far from an expert

Are you both from the US? It was rough getting used to how much you all like to drown out the food with various sauces

I just did a scroll through the posts returned for a search of “gary marcus” and didn’t see too much. His newsletter hits a lot of the main beats if you just want occasional updates when something happens. It doesn’t look too much like a channel exists though

Oh, I didn’t say I had a preference. And I see your point that one is just a conjugation of the other. I’ve just seen capitalism as a term used more for explanation and when I’ve seen capitalist said it tends to have a negative connotation at best but more often it is half spat out

The question says capitalism (not so loaded term) your answer said capitalist (more loaded term and you’ve taken time to use the loaded part of the term).

That said, I accidentally replied to a question in lemmy.ml so the person asking the question is probably more aligned with your way of thinking and explaining than I am. Sorry about that

Duplicates of famous art isn’t a thing? Street vendors selling print isn’t a thing?

You choose to right click download and then… assume the only use anyone wants is to store their art in ones and zeros?

I think you need to prefix this with “some”. I’m not sure your point even holds for “most”

An economic model that includes capitalism explains a lot of the world including having some close process analogs in nature.

A capitalist sounds like a label you’re trying to apply in an attempt to label someone as being maximally for profits. A lot of companies admittedly work that way and it’s important to include that concept.

By my reading you’re taking the use of the first term and then saying they are using the second term. I think this is called equivocation.

For profit system!?

I’m pretty sure every time I’ve seen humans get together there’s someone trying to get more of something than the other people. Even in communes or communities without money like jails (and in the romanticised tribal past). Some parts of economic theory help predict these outcomes even in places that aim for these ideals.

Where are you seeing evidence of a system that’s close to what you’re describing that’s functional, stable over time, and more than a few isolated individuals?

You have a niece that’s a poor student but talented at art.

You clone her painting, sell for a profit, keep the money.

Same issue different specifics.

You’re still aggressively okay with this and would still use sophisticated language to slander the niece’s actions?

I’d argue memes that duplicate other peoples work are common but questionable on the ethical front.

Kind of like how alcohol consumption is common and got shoehorned in through our long history with it but newer drugs are more likely to have people question their cost to society (and demonise them usually for political gain, still many have some obvious costs).