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What is the best way to make sense of the alternative federated communities? (kbin.social)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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It's a little daunting to me that in some cases there are 2 or more communities between the federated alternatives; what's the best way to corral these? I had thought I could perhaps subscribe to Lemmy instances on kbin; is that correct? If so, how? Thank you in advance.

Edit: Well, this is sort of embarrassing but when I was searching for the other communities, I was accidentally searching threads instead of magazines and of course not finding anything so that's the answer as to HOW to subscribe [when it comes to kbin]. My point stands, though, that having so many communities is a bit cumbersome. I guess I will let it percolate a bit and see how it feels.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Oh, if that was your point, then maybe you should have actually, I don't know, articulated it instead of waxing bitterly about "echo chambers" like someone who's never attended a party where they haven't been asked to leave.

An active community with a manageable number of people in it won't actually surface less content, it will just bury less of it, because people are only able to take in so much at a time. The only things a larger number of smaller communities does is make you aware of how much you might actually miss in a large, monolithic space.

That's not feeling a loss of meaningful content aggregation, that's just FOMO.

And you know, reading the top 10 posts in a subreddit that gets thousands of them a day doesn't make you well informed, and being the person in the room everyone else regrets meeting doesn't make you intelligent. Being a chronic assholes only correlates with being unhappy.

At the end of the day, social media is entertainment and socialization, not education. If you want to actually be informed about shit, go back to college and start reading academic and trade journals.