Think of your closest friend or family member. Do you “believe in” them?

It’s very rare that you find anyone on Lemmy/Reddit that actually takes more than eight seconds to critically think about the significance of “religion,” and not just immediately monkey brain into “religion is for idiots.” Alas, I hoped that this particular group think would’ve stayed behind.

A belief is not a religion, and a religion is not a belief. Any one person can be varying degrees of “religious,” and any one person can hold varying levels of belief in a higher power.

I don’t have much else to add because your comment was pretty well thought-out.

Related: https://youtu.be/WiACxOjyRT0?feature=shared

This, and also just that it’s not that deep. It’s ShowerThoughts, not ShowerEpiphanies.

At some point in my life I started enunciating every syllable of the word “comfortable,” where as most Americans opt for “kuhmf-tr-bl.” I don’t remember when or why I started doing otherwise, but I can’t go back now.

I love visiting the Specific Ocean.

This horribly underestimates the laziness, indifference, and selfishness of the general public. It only works if you zoom out enough to ignore the individual’s interest.

Maybe we should check your basement.

I’d imagine your standard for “fully dry” is just different for each of these.

Computational Socialite?

No see. What supposed to see?

Is final iteration of long chain of names. Starts with “Metaqione,” a slightly off English phonetic spelling of Italian word for “jester,” pronounced as if name were Spanish. Name often shortened to “Meta,” which was cool, and then Meta used name as branding for all creations. Then, big corporation decides to change name. And then Meta was pissed, decided that “Metaqione” was too hard to pronounce correctly anyway, and therefore changed name.

“Metaqione” became “Mesaqoraz,” a new iteration and chapter. New name had something related to universe and metaphysics, but then Mesaqoraz no remember now. Name “Mesaqoraz” was actually very short-lived, and was not attractive to Mesaqoraz because name was too complicated and hard to remember, which resulted in truncated name “Mesa,” but “Mesa” was too common and is real word in many languages, and initials of Mesa’s real name were promptly added to front, creating “Delmesa.” Because Lemmy new and small, and programming.dev even smaller, “Mesa” was available, which is nickname for Delmesa.

I don’t have experience with systems like this, but just as sort of a fusion of a lot of ideas I’ve read in this thread, could some sort of per-instance trust system work?

The more any instance interacts positively (posting, commenting, etc.) with main instance ‘A,’ that particular instance’s reputation score gets bumped up on main instance A. Then, use that score with the ratio of votes from that instance to the total amount of votes in some function in order to determine the value of each vote cast.

This probably isn’t coherent, but I just woke up, and I also have no idea what I’m talking about.

Instagram differs from Reddit in the sense that most people use Instagram because that’s where their friends and family are. You’re posting more personal things there. An alternative doesn’t really work for most users if no one they know is using it. Good luck with the push, though.

Just this morning I was debating if I should go ahead and start using Connect and then switch to Boost when it releases, or instead to just wait and continue using my browser until Boost.