I’m not talking about interactions between instances, I’m talking about Google and Bing indexing Mastadon. That’s who we should be using for search.

No, you are disappointed that Mastadon doesn’t have the same feature set as Twitter. The fact that you can search off instance at all is impressive. What you are asking for is like saying you should find GM cars in Ford’s search bar. Each instance is its own website. Search engines are designed to do what you want, and as Mastadon grows in popularity, it’s search results will become more prominent.

Shockingly, the app used to be worse. Of course, now today their ad backend is down so the app won’t work at all.

Say you don’t understand the fediverse without saying you don’t understand the fediverse.

By these standards:

• The web is unsafe by default
• Email is unsafe by default

In all three cases, your safety is determined by the home you choose, and who/what you choose to interact with.

There shouldn’t be any difference between apps on the same instance. Are you sure you are always using the same login on the same server?

The only other possibility is that the app has the instance hard coded somewhere or accessing remote instances directly, but that seems unlikely - it would cause all kinds of problems because URLs aren’t portable.

My suggestion when troubleshooting would be to compare what is showing up on the login instance and the app. If those are different, then there is an app bug. If there is a difference between the login instance and the host instance, that’s a federation issue. Comparing the app to the host instance (instead of the login instance) isn’t helpful to the app developer. The app shouldn’t know the host instance even exists.

It looks like federation issues. Lemmy.world is under semi-constant DDOS attacks, and between that and the mitigations that LW are putting in place, the entire instance is not reliable.

In general, I think communities (or groups of related communities) should maintain their own instances to protect from some of the issues prominent with user-focused instances.

No doubt your logic is based on the carbon footprint of two cars - the old ice and the new BEV.

Where that logic falls down is the old ICE becomes a more affordable efficient used car that can replace an older ICE that it blowing blue smoke. Further, new BEV become used BEV in a few years. Used BEV are becoming quite affordable and cost effective. They are also far outlasting their projected battery life.

Finally, demand for BEV increases R&D on more efficient storage technologies that are cheaper and have a smaller environmental footprint.

Yes, more and better public transport should be a thing. But the US is just too big - and in many cases too empty - for ubiquitous public transport to be cost or environmentally efficient.

The problem is the perception that having a college education automatically means that you get a high paying job, when the reason that college educated people got paid more was that there were fewer of them. As college education becomes the norm rather than the exception, it just means that more jobs require degrees.

So you are saying that he made up the part about the sub drones washing ashore. Got it.

So you are saying that the independent, well respected journalist who wrote the Biography is lying, while the demonstrably unethical billionaire is telling the truth?

And Native Americans were at near constant war with each other prior to European settlement. No competition at all eyeroll

Acropolis: 12,500 m^2

EPCOT: 1.2 million m^2

Hm, someone needs to shop this face on to the front of Thomas the Tank Engine.