Australia- Safe to drink. The water is chlorinated and fluoridated (for dental health).

I’m not 100% sure if the water is fluoridated across the whole country or just in my state

I understand that that’s the point of it, but it runs contrary the network effect that makes social media valuable, and creates too much of a barrier of entry to new users.

When Twitter became woefully unpopular, I heard several different podcasters say something along the lines of “For now we’re still on Twitter. We’ll move onto Mastodon once I work out how to use it”, and none of them ever joined. If content creators don’t join a network because it’s too difficult to join compared to other networks, then content consumers will have no reason to join either.

It’s no coincidence that the biggest community on lemmy.ml is Linux.

They could be legit users, FWIW, and just not understanding Lemmy enough to know what an “instance” is. Nowhere else on the internet (except Mastodon) is it a “thing” to have different instances of the same site iteracting.

Half of my comments are about Lemmy not being ready yet, or a viable alternative to Reddit. It’s not a “big lie”. I’m currently relying on the hover-over text to know where the icons are, brcause they’re not loading for some reason. I’m confident that decentralised social media will never take off, brcause the point of social media is to bring people together rather than stick them on different servers.

Australia: Very unusual. I’ll see someone doing it maybe once a month and always think “fucking weirdos”. It’s more common to see Aboriginal flags, but still uncommon

It’s more common to see bogans using it as part or their beach or BBQ attire (eg, maybe an Australian flag stubby cooler)

It’s a term that broadly refers to people with more experience in a technology and more ability to extract use from it.

Ads and data mining

Over on Mastodon I’m at mastodon.world purely because it’s the most generic sounding instance and I don’t particularly want to have my whole identity to be defined by where I live or the operating system that I use or whatever

Currently users of Lemmy are “power users”. The fact that power users can’t even work out how to use Lemmy ‘properly’ is sign of its future