Are tourists being offered refunds on their flights and lodging?

Bit of a newbie question here: is lemmy a democracy or just a federation?

Or to put it another way, do I vote with my upvotes or only with my choice in which members of the fediverse I connect with?

It’s never the young kids that get offended by this stuff. That sort of bigotry is taught.

Tax breaks? Most companies are paying leases on their office space, minus the ones big enough to build their own campuses.

Don’t forget “by the people.”

Successful democracy is a participatory process.

I agree… it feels like the Fediverse doesn’t quite have the same algorithms that the single-corporation services have, and I feel it most in the search to broaden the content I see. Hopefully the exploratory element picks up as time goes on!

I simply haven’t found as many good engaging posts in Mastodon, though, despite all that. It could be simply the challenge of building an interesting feed when you start from zero, but that’s a challenge nonetheless.

Algorithmic identification of novel content is in my mind neither intrinsically sinister nor beneficial; like all things, it’s a tool and the morality comes out of how it is used.

Things like (optional) recommendation tools could be a useful addition to Mastodon to help users find interesting threads. Could be run on a per instance basis.

“Nobody uses Whatsapp here in the states”

Man I wish I had your friends. The only non-iMessage app I can get everyone to use is WhatsApp. And I don’t have an iPhone.

That headline is doing the murderer’s work by literally propagating his anti-LGBT terrorism. Shame on that periodical.

Android was never the only player in the cell phone OS market. Tesla was the only player in the EV market until last year more or less