Ah, I see what you mean now. In that case I don’t think you can do it on Kbin natively rn. There is this website though, which might help a bit. At least imo it’s easier to use. https://lemmyverse.net/communities
You can just filter for only lemmy.world. When you find a community you want to join you’ll have to type the handle of the community in the search icon to the right rather than in the Magazine tab for communities that doesn’t already have a copy on your instance.
Click on the tab Magazines at the top, select local and federate, put lemmy.world in the search box to see all lemmy.world communities. If you want to check for community with certain keywords you can try putting [keyword]@lemmy.world. It can search for the keyword in both the name and description, but not extensive as if you’d search on lemmy.world.
This can use some improvement, but it’s not a Kbin problem though, since Lemmy is even worse when it comes to searching for communities outside each instance.
I think you are missing the point. The point isn’t where the money is spent the most. The point is money has to come from somewhere. And yes, ideally it would be redirected from billionaires, mega-corps and military budget, but that’s currently not happening. The money spent on space exploration is at least somewhere in the same vein as the ones spent on the environment, other researches etc. They are for the sake of making progress. Let’s look at a hypothetical situation where space exploration is getting more traction again (more than now).
And that’s the problem.
The money though. If they are not going to pry the money out of billionaires, it has to come from somewhere (less well off people). Those are arguably better spent to improve situations on the earth than on something that’s likely to disproportionately benefit the wealthy as their plaything, extra income, escape or whatever. Especially because it should be clear to everyone except the absolute dumbest and delusional people how critical action is right now.
I hate that name, it’s too generic and is going to eat up into other matters that use the word threads. This is going to be annoying.
There’s nothing wrong with being a separate entity from big corporates. Mastodon is pretty big already and it’s going keep growing. Fast growth isn’t the point, it’s sustainability and providing a haven for people who don’t want enshittification and other corporate bullshit. If someone want that they can just use a corporate owned social media, nothing wrong with that. Reddit has never been the biggest fish in the pond anyway, and the whole thing with trying to pull in users is a part of what made the platform worse. Bringing in corporates is gutting the biggest thing that make Fediverse appealing. And for the record, there isn’t that many big companies that’d be a threat anyway. Any corporates that aren’t big social media corps isn’t really the problem. If Nintendo wants to make an instance to be the second Mii verse I highly doubt many people would be against federating with them.
What he said is right though. Let me put it this way, politics has a system it’s relied on. Ancient Greece has its own style of democracy. Current US has its own style of democracy. The EU has its own kind of system. Here’s the thing to consider, the content and state of the system can change over time, but the low level of it - the rule to how the changes can happens or how things operate - rarely changes. Politics can change the rules within the system, but it doesn’t typically change or revise the foundation of the system. When revision of the system foundation is so rarely done, the things taking advantage of this foundation obviously don’t get solved.
When you say someone who wants to break a system will, it’s actually because the base of the system doesn’t change so the abuse can keep happening. Let’s use US politic as an example. Gerrymandering is a problem. There’s no sign of it getting fixed and continue to be a problem even now. The reason is because the current system had made it so that the decision to do so could never come to past, at least not easily. It’s a deadlock. If instead the system is revised from the ground up this would be as simple as reasoning during the redesign process that the current method is broken and it isn’t good at representing the people so it should not be used. Currently that’s not how it’s being solved, and it’s like trying to fix a problem on your computer without the option to shut down or reset the device.
What he’s saying is the system is broken like that and we’re not solving it by the most efficient method (mainly due to it being so costly). Even so, sometimes it’s just better to scrap and start anew.
That said, I don’t think it applies to Fediverse at the moment. It’s so new that there are so many ways it could develop and if it fails that doesn’t imply the concept of Fediverse is never supposed to succeed. It may just be because the best steps to manage it wasn’t taken. Going back to the political analogy, it’s like having just the concept of democracy as a framework. But it hasn’t been decided yet whether this democracy is going to be dominated by just two parties (like the US), or has many different parties with ranked voting (like the UK). Both are democracies but the foundations and implementations are different. And well, one works better than the other.
Then it’s no different than them just jumping back to Facebook or other corporate owned social media like the current situation. That’s not a lost. The lost is if they are allowed to federate in the first place and people get used to it. But even then as the concept of enshittification becomes more well known more users will also be resistant to the idea.
This post is just…so ignorant and unintentionally malicious. Putting in the idea that Fediverse should co-exist with Meta and not treat them like exile when they enter the space is not the way to go for its survival. And the more people there are who just look at the headline without doing further reading is not going to help the situation.
You can’t get Alan Becker and his team content anywhere else other than his channel. Also, I’ve followed his works ever since the first Animation vs Animator came out.