It’d be really nice if they clustered by instance. Then one could theoretically follow all politicians in their favorite party without having to look them up manually.

Is anyone under 40 still on Facebook? I think it’s all old people at this point.

Sometimes local subscribers is nice to know. Maybe not more important than total subscribers, but useful nonetheless. Especially on a small/specific instance where you get to know your instance-mates, you might want to know how many of them are following a thing and whether you’re about to introduce them to something entirely new.

Well would you look at that

Oh but getting sucked into random bullshit is what they want

Same

I guess it depends how much you like your job/employer. It’s clear that the added time with your family is a really high value, which I can strongly relate to.

If you really want to keep the job, maybe when it really comes down to it, you could compromise and do one day /week.

You know it’s just bots right?

That’s kind of the problem I think. I was able to find like 2 people there I want to follow. Lemmy is going to be far more successful at displacing its alternative because all the communities you’d want to subscribe to are here.

No. My other instance is WireBase.org. It’s a smaller one

It’s type 2 fun. You don’t want to do it, but you’re glad you did when you do

Can a brother get a tl;dr?

It’s funny because Facebook was the original dumpster fire

The other way to go is to automatically cross-post across federated servers if they have the same community. Why doesn’t it work like that?