“You’re basically just a rabbit, aren’t you?”

This is true. It’s also why nuclear power plants aren’t a lot more common.

A lot of folks unfortunately think open-source software is much more vulnerable than closed-source software because anyone can inspect it. The great irony of it, as everyone here knows, the opposite is actually often true.

For me, the worst part is actually the duplicate communities. Sure, it’s nice that newbies can have these duplicate subs so they don’t have to learn how to traverse the Lemmyverse, but it would be really nice if duplicates could be avoided. Like, maybe if Lemmy instances kept better records of communities on other instances.

In addition to few active users, there’s a lot of duplication when it comes to Lemmy communities. For example, there are at least 15 Linux communities across the various Lemmy instances - and that’s just general Linux communities. There are four coffee communities, four libertarian communities, three retro gaming communities, five general Windows communities, etc.

The best we can do as users is to only join communities with the most users and maybe ask moderators to delete their community if there’s already one with more users and if theirs has very few, if any, posts. It would be really great if it were possible to merge communities, especially ones with few posts. I guess the ones with few users and zero posts could have the moderator tell subscribers the community will be shutting down soon and they should locate other instances with the browse.feddit.de search tool.

Though, I do have to admit that there is an advantage to having duplicate communities across instances, which is that they make it easier for new users, since it prevents them from having to figure out how to get to other communities too soon. Though, every instance should probably have a sticky or something that tells users about browse.feddit.de and browser extensions like Lemmy Link.

I think it would change things. I think it would make it a lot easier to justify voting for third-party candidates, since it wouldn’t split the vote between GOP and Dem candidates. Maybe I’m wrong, but I think there are a lot of folks who really want to vote for a third-party candidate but are afraid to do so because they’re afraid of splitting the vote and causing the bad guys (from their perspective) to win.

Where do you stand on ranked-choice voting?