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  • @nutomic@lemmy.ml brought up https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/5871 , which would at least be a way for communities to explicitly link to each other, and we could possibly create a superset of Subscribed.

    In 1.0 there is the Suggested filter, where admins have a preset / chosen list of curated communities they like, and a way to view all the posts from them.

    I’d rather not do complicated algorithms to try to figure out interest / community adjacency based on user activity, as this could get really complicated and also probably show things people don’t want to see.

    I totally agree that content discovery could be better, but I’d like it to be explicitly chosen by the user, rather than generated. So I think the best way is still just to go to the communities page, and click subscribe on anything that might potentially interest you.










  • There’s a lot of marxist debate over this, but the general view is best shown by this phrase:

    “When the Spanish came to the americas, they demanded the peoples to become christians. When the English came, they wiped them out.”

    Even the Spanish Queen Isabella in the 1500s after Columbus’s voyages demanded that the indigenous peoples be considered subjects with full rights. The Spanish never tried to systematically wipe out the indigenous in the same way the english did.

    And by the time of Bolivar, a big chunk of Latin Americans were, although christian, supportive of indigenous resistance, and slave rebellions like in haiti. At the same time presidents in the US were decrying the haitian revolution and carrying out the largest scale genocide of our time.









  • I firmly believe you should develop apps natively for that platform. That means jetpack-compose for android, and swift ui for iOS.

    These write-once-for-all platforms layers are always bloated, slow, unoptimized, and behind the official native specs.

    Decent programmers know how to learn new languages and frameworks as necessary, and most of the concepts are the same across programming languages. Nothing near as difficult as learning a real language.