Look at only communities you’re subscribed to, and unsubscribe from all where talking about the topics you don’t like is allowed.

I follow several news organizations, bloggers, activists there. For example you can get Linux news from https://techhub.social/@LinuxToday or posts from Richard Stallman’s blog at https://mastodon.xyz/@rms or the EFF is https://mastodon.social/@eff – of course those aren’t the only accounts I follow, just a sample of ones you might be interested in that have recently posted things.

You can also follow hashtags on Mastodon, that sometimes helps me find accounts to follow. Recently I have however been unfollowing more accounts than I’ve been newly following because my feed was getting spammed with too many things that I didn’t find very relevant.

ETA: you can also follow https://social.growyourown.services/@FediFollows if you are very desperate for random suggestions for things you could follow

Nothing will stop that, not even an explicit statement that something is intended as a joke.

In other news, water is wet

Because the world is full of contradictions

No. The articles are written by volunteers and will not be improved by your donation.

In theory, your donation does keep the servers running, but they have plenty of money to do that, and most of the money nowadays goes to paying way too many employees many of whom don’t do anything very useful or important.

If I find the headline interesting, I might read the article if I have enough time.

Before I comment on things, I do at the very least skim them to confirm that I’m commenting on what the article actually says, not just the headline.

A Mastodon user I follow recently posted that there are 3 types of laws. I think that is an interesting framework.

What Pakistan is doing here is definitely a “power law”.

and this is a bad thing how, convincing people in the Soviet sphere that the US is better in every way???

Berlin Wall sightseeing.

Things like that aren’t a feature of the terminal emulator, but of the shell. Try to find out which shell you’re using on Android, maybe try using that one on desktop too.

I use different email accounts on different providers for different purposes. Most purposes, gmail or outlook.com, both of which I’m sure if they do go away, this will be announced well in advance.

I follow both, but a lot more people/organizations than hashtags.

Everyone on Lemmy is a bot except you.

He is an adult, mind your own business until he approaches you for advice.

Bill Gates has a list of favorite books. Ronald Reagan watched Back to the Future.

I found that on old forums I did get to know the people regularly posting on them quite well over time (and they got to know me). On reddit and lemmy not so much, or do you have any idea about anything I’ve posted before (because I don’t know anything about you).

The main thing I would like to know is why so many people nowadays want a microblog platform, whether it is X or Bluesky or Mastodon, and why community-based platforms like Lemmy are getting relatively little attention in comparison.

Is it just that these people weren’t seriously online before the rise of microblogs? They didn’t start out with phpBB-style forums, so don’t miss their existence and think that individuals having followers is the normal state of the Internet? I’m genuinely not super sure what’s going on.

Wait, what? Which parts of this are satire now? I read the Onion piece that Global Tetrahedron was purchasing InfoWars, but this is a Guardian story saying The Onion is purchasing it? I’m a bit confused.

For an ordinary citizen, absolutely. Most topics in the world, I have no opinion on, or I have the opinion that there are good points on both sides, or I have the opinion that one side is right about one thing and the other about another, or I have the opinion that one side is mostly right but the other also legitimate.

Politicians meanwhile are more-or-less required to have opinions about most political matters (or at least be able to say that they stand for them even if they don’t internally hold them). They will have to vote on them after all, and voters expect to know what they’re going to get on nearly all matters.