I was put off of one instance by community feud with a self-appointed HOA-type representative, and on another by downvotes on any opinion comment that I made on otherwise empty posts. Switching platform sadly can’t fix the problem of awful people. 😔

A quite apt metaphor of Man drowning in problems that can’t just be burned away.

California City 2.0 baby!

So to combat fake cheese, real cheese makers change their cheese and make them crunchier? 🤔

Crack down on all Chinese police stations in the country.

It’s concrete, not cement. Cement is a component, not the end product.

If you leave a bag of portland cement outside and let the rain cures it then that’s a cement block.

And the article mentions both but in contradicting contexts. Is “cement blocks” actually “concrete blocks”? Then later it mentions cement being incorporated into the resulting concrete, so what was the previously mentioned “cement blocks”? Nothing made of cement in the shape of blocks are ever incorporated into concrete. Cement powder is.

Anyway, cool concept. In the mean time, the world also needs to figure out how to make concrete more green, because manufacturing cement releases a lot of greenhouse gases.

The Lemmy API seem to support it, so does some third party UI (e.g. alexandrite* which I’m using right now). The official UI for some reason doesn’t.

*you can try it out at https://a.lemmy.world

is there a way to subscribe to that from lemmy?

Nice, now a BBC in the fediverse is not just that thing.

We should support them as this is a pretty significant entity moving into the space. Leave nice comments, encouraging comments.

my thing now is to listen to a playlist of the one song but all the different renderings/covers/remixes. from Apple Bottom Jeans to Bad Apple to the mystery song.

You have broken out of the algorithmic chains that has tied up your attention and time to literal prolefeed. And it starts when you chose to abandon Reddit and go out of your way to join a Lemmy instance (often cited as the biggest barrier of entry: to choose an instance) so congrats! 😀

We definitely felt the ship groaning through all this. Thankfully the Ruud-er skillfully navigated through this, and the software update on top.

Anyways, welcome to Lemmy 17!