Maybe a safer option would be to simply be able to add specific users' posts and/or commented posts to your landing page (which could even be implemented in the front end), never collecting or keeping any statistics of how many "followers" people have.
jsveiga
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I think it'd be a risky route to take, as it creates the possibility of the general populace electing "lemmy influencers" and ruining it all.
There are two very distinct categories of content aggregation/social media: The ones where you primarily "follow" people/content creators (facebook, twitter, instagram, youtube, whatsapp) and the ones where you primarily "follow" subjects (reddit, lemmy, slashdot, etc).
The ones that focus on people are much more prone to create opinion bubbles, polarizing groups, and the obnoxious "influencers".
Of course in some cases algorithms (as in youtube) may take in account the subject of your subscribed content creators, and feed you other creators covering similar subjects, but when the focus is on people, chances are they'll feed you similar opinions, not only similar subjects.
It's easy to see the difference if you compare subscribing to a "r/news" channel in reddit/lemmy with subscribing to a "foxnews" channel in youtube/facebook. One of those will get you a wider range of point of views (despite possible mod biases).
So I really hope subscribing or following people never becomes relevant in lemmy, let alone having algorithms tailoring what is shown to me. I want to know other people's opinions; not an echo of my opinions.
This is not any kind of censorship, it's just Reddit forcing people to use their ad-infested app.
It's not normal to be constantly afraid of anything. That's not healthy.
It's normal and advisable not to completely trust the government, but being constantly afraid is paranoid.
I know, I'm Brazilian! It's the largest public health system in the world, and Brazil is not (yet haha) a superpower, so all things considered (and despite all the corruption), they do a pretty good job. In some regions it's even decent, once you survived the lines.
A little context: In Brazil, public free health care is universal. You may be homeless, a legal or illegal immigrant, a tourist, undocumented, never having paid insurance or taxes, but you have the right to use the health care system. As it should be, everywhere.
Because the tire is topographically a radially flattened torus, when you turn it half inside out, it becomes a 2D möbius strip. At this point it effectively has only one side. When you push such construct horizontally against a solid, because the z-axis perpendicular to the strip has no negative values (it only has one side), if that coincides with the orientation of the ∇Np of the solid, the z vector wraps around the solid. When the tire snaps to its rest state (inside in), it's easy to see why it ends up around the pillar.
This 3D animation demonstrates the concept:
Second Day of Federation Test. Does anyone see this? Please reply with your account's home instance.
I see this, vlemmy.net!
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IDK, but it took me a good 30s touching the posts in your screenshot trying to figure out wth was happening.