Maybe because I created it?!
rglullis
Liberals are right wing
Case closed.
Please... this is a serious display of availability bias.
Let's face it: the demographic here is just a hyper concentrated version of Reddit, which itself is mostly middle-upper class tweenagers from affluent countries. They get online and get convinced that everyone is just like them.
The average person that hangs out on Reddit-like forums absolutely does not represent the population at large, and any "right-winger who can be present in a discussion without spewing a whole lot of vile conspiracy hate fascist bullshit" has learned that there is no way one can have a reasonable exchange of ideas in any forum like this.
We tried at communick.news a while ago, it didn't work so well. Perhaps the situation has improved, so it's worth to take a look.
For instance you can't fetch Mastodon posts from Lemmy.
Having a standard URL scheme would precisely help us develop ActivityPub clients and get rid of application-specific servers.
I still don't understand why you'd prefer to stick with a community on LW when there is a whole instance at https://nba.space waiting for more participation.
I am considering one of these as a substitute for my laptop. I have a proper setup at home and at my coworking space, with big displays keyboard and a mouse. The laptop is only carried around because of the CPU and disk.
If I find one of these with good specs, it could replace even my HTPC, because the same "brain" could be used everywhere.
For the same reason that they have a website: to control their media presence and their means of content distribution.
if merging in the creative bits from each were merged into the more popular ones more often.
Yeah, the pity is that most of the times this simply doesn't happen, and everyone wants to reinvent their own special flavor of wheel.
That's a hideous court...