I don’t like how broad Lemmy assumes default interests are, though then again showing everyone the average interests may statistically be the best initialization point.

Every time I’m shown a community I’m totally uninterested I make sure to go in and block it from my feed. Likewise with aggressive or otherwise pathological users. It gets better.

My two cents is that more users oughta establish new communities when they find the absence of one. Even if they don’t have the time to devote for moderating it, as people join the responsibilities can be allocated among the early adopters. Especially those with strong political and moral backgrounds (to mitigate abuses of power like those infamously cultivated over at Reddit).

If you’re referring to this little guy, he’s what I have to pay whenever I get new sneakers: my shoebill

Great phylogenetics YouTuber discusses this very connection.

You can set connections between folders to be one-directional. That way after I send stuff to my intended device I wipe it from the source device and it stays where it was intended to go.

To all the men obsessed with the Roman empire: you are to Republicans what the Greek culture is to Democrats. #generalization #butTrue

Yeah just get a slime mold to design it for us.