That is all.

I'm trying to start my own lemmy instance, and reading through the documentation at https://join-lemmy.org/docs/administration/federation_getting_started.html it looks like we need to manually search for just about everything that can be found on other lemmy instances.

It works. I'm able to search for communities/comments/posts and then my instance will load only that community/comment chain/post and only after I've searched it. No updates.

Is this what we're supposed to be doing? Seems pretty tedious to have someone that's supposed to go to other instances and then search for all of their content on my instance in order to federate with it.

I have a feeling there is an easier way, but I'm legitimately not seeing it.

Right now, it looks like the only way users on my instance will get to see content from other instances is if I manually search for just about everything they'll get to see.

I can write a crawler to automate all of this, but I'd rather not unless it's completely necessary.

I thought it was interesting how this little factoid was kept hidden from us. Lots of people like to complain about high cholesterol, but I bet most of them don't realize that it's only coming from the animals they're choosing to eat.

Unlike wind and hydro, which require dealing with governments and experts, solar can be sold to anyone with enough money to buy it.

This means that there are a ton of scumbags looking to profit off of those who do not know any better by spreading misinformation and, well, any other tactic they can think of to enrich themselves further.

I've started thinking about this because whenever a discussion about clean energy comes up, there's almost always "solar shills" trying to peddle rhetoric that makes solar out to be the superior option even when it clearly isn't. I have a feeling this is because those individuals have been manipulated by businesspeople into believing and sharing falsehoods so the next time one of their salepeople tries to sell a layperson solar, said layperson is more likely to have come across some propaganda to tilt them more towards making a purchase.

Money brings out the worst in people. I unfortunately don't hold the people in the solar industry above what I'm accusing them of, and if you've been convinced that solar is some kind of panacea relative to other forms of energy, it's possible you've been subjected to propaganda to exploit our naivete.

Unlike wind and hydro, which require dealing with governments and experts, solar can be sold to anyone with enough money to buy it.

This means that there are a ton of scumbags looking to profit off of those who do not know any better by spreading misinformation and, well, any other tactic they can think of to enrich themselves further.

There are no wrong answers, only your opinions 🙂

Personally, I think an anti-hero is a bad guy that does good things. He might cheat on his wife, steal, gamble, etc, but when it "matters," he ends up on the side of what's good.

Han Solo is an example that comes to mind.