Both. Obviously platforms with attention based algorithms are worse.

But platforms like Lemmy, Ao3 and xkcd are plenty addictive. Oh and Wikipedia. Wikipedia is one of the worst offenders! I don’t think the people that developed any of those want to exploit us.

The instance is the part after the @. They host users and communities. Admins manage the instance.

The community is the thing you subscribe to. Moderators manage the community.

I’m pretty new.

Lemmy is great. It doesn’t have as many active hyper specific communities as reddit. But there are still plenty of active communities.
There is no attention based algorithm. But the more basic sortings work well enough. I already spend too much time here.

I tried mastodon and Twitter a few years back. I still have absolutely no idea how that whole microblogging thing is supposed to work. Am I just supposed to scream into the void? Same thing with pixelfed.

If people link peertube videos from Lemmy, peertube works well. But the feed needs work. I don’t really care about the topic of the video. So the filter by topic isn’t that useful. I’d like to filter by language. And then find well researched videos by someone who is enthusiastic about a topic. Any topic. I don’t know if there simply aren’t that many or if I just can’t find them.

I think attention based algorithms could help retain new users. I think there are many who try fediverse platforms and just don’t stay long. And if we get more users that stay longer, we get more content, and then niches can form.

To not lose current users, and just because of mental health, it would probably be better if the attention based feeds could be turned off in the settings.

Exactly. Because the legislative arm of the government did their job in that case.

And perhaps one of our states leaves the country.

I don’t think reddit even has an option for alttexts. Lemmy really encourages it.

Social media networks without attention based algorithms also aren’t quite as addictive.

Hosting with close allies shouldn’t be a problem.

Within the EU, I still don’t care in which country the data is hosted

I wouldn’t say forever. But it will take a long time to rebuild.

They are also supposed to limit freedoms, where they infringe on the freedom of others.

For example the freedom to shoot people infringes on the freedom to be free from physical harm. So it should be limited.

It currently has 214 518 English original works that aren’t smut

Not really. Teenagers and young adults used to party a lot, and those parties used to have a lot of alcohol

I actually rather like the taste. Although it’s certainly an acquired taste. Like salminak

AO3 is not predominantly smut. It allows smut. So people go there to find it. But most works aren’t smut. And it has a really powerful filtering system, so you can find what you want.

Most of the time I go there for humour.

That would be a reason for more alcohol

Because alcohol is bad for you?

Our parents were still told that a glass of wine a day was healthy.

It’s just UHT. UHT dairy is very much legal in the US. And does not have to be refrigerated. It often is, because unrefrigerated milk makes US consumers uneasy. But it doesn’t have to be.

I am aware that it’s less common than it is in Europe. But it’s not an unreasonable question.

“Do you guys have any sour cream that isn’t refrigerated?”

How is that a stupid question?

https://www.finefoodgroup.com/tool/en/products/cheese-and-sour-cream/che/sour-cream-uht/cd04a

Good for the country.

Most people are assholes. The government shouldn’t enact racist policies just because the people want to.

That’s fucked up. They can’t do that here. Landlords can only evict you for a short list of valid reasons. And even then there’s a 3 month notice period.

But no matter what system you live in, there will always be better and worse landlords. And apparently OP prefers landlords who do make a habit of evicting people.