Lvxferre

They aren’t different sources of info, but parts of the same process. And they’re three:

1. The utterance. Like you said, the words and how they’re arranged and such.
2. Your internalised knowledge. It’s all that bundle of meanings that you associate with each word, plus your ability to parse how those words are arranged.
3. The context. It’s what dictates how you’re going to use your internalised knowledge to interpret the utterance; for example, selecting one among many possible meanings.

Without any of those three things, you get 0% of the info. They’re all essential.

So no, it is not solipsistic at all, since it depends on things outside your head (the utterance and the context), and those are shared by multiple individuals.

For further info, check it here:

Lack of moderation tools link // The choice to defederate from an instance can also be based on our inability to effectively moderate that instance’s users. As of now, only two of our defederations are on this basis (lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works), and we hope to eventually refederate with both of them.

It was less about LW and SJW being “poorly moderated”, and more about being large enough that they were bringing a lot of mod work for Beehaw.

IIRC when that happened lemm.ee was still small. (Note that the page was last updated 8m ago.)

Yes, it is a problem - depending on your tastes “subscribed” won’t be enough. But going “subscribed” and then “all” is bound to show less political posts than going straight for “all”.

Browse by “subscribed”, and subscribe to a lot of communities. Only do it by “all” when you can’t find good stuff in the subscribed view.

I do this and, while I do see a few intrusive US politics posts, it’s far less than when browsing by “all”.

A few less-obvious associations, just for fun:

• Just like “the house” /s/ is “to house” /z/, “the glass” /s/ is “to glaze” /z/
• Tiw’s Day, Wotan’s Day, Thor’s Day, Frigg’s Day. Note: Tiw, Wotan and Frigg are the native names for Norse Tyr, Odin and Freyja.
• “Flee”, “fly”, “flow” are all related.
• The “mus” in “muscle” is a borrowed cognate to native “mouse”.

I’m almost sure.

Your typical instance only defeds another as a last case scenario, due to deep divergences or because of blatantly shitty admin or user behaviour. But, past that, they’re still willing to let some shit to go through - because if you defederate too many other instances, with no good reason, you’re only hurting yourself.

That’s simply not enough to create those “corners”. Specially when all this “nerds vs. normies*” thing is all about depth - for example the normie wants some privacy, but the nerd goes all in, but they still care about the same resources.

*I hate this word but it’s convenient here.

They tolerate each other enough to get each into a corner and not interact much.

And yet that is not what we see in the Fediverse. Those “corners” don’t exist here.

The people here and their attitude towards people who don’t agree with them are the problem.

And that’s a structural problem. The ActivityPub was supposed to allow both the “average person” and the “nerd” to coexist in the same platform, without one getting too much in the way of the other; it doesn’t.

I’m not sure on a good solution for that.