It’s my philosophy that going around, uninformed and uninitiated, and even getting burned a few times is a great way, and possibly the best way, to discover where you really belong on Lemmy. I believe it to be a formative and even a necessary experience.

That’s really my advice for how to find the “correct instance for you”. Everyone here got there by trial and error, and I believe it is a formative enough experience that everyone should go through it. Once it became extremely easy to join Reddit, that’s when it started to go to shit.

It is (nearly) impossible to join and participate in Lemmy if you are a tech-illiterate moron. By the very fact that anyone is here means that everyone at least has a middling level of tech literacy and is somewhat intelligent, or else they would not only never have heard of Lemmy, and would not have been able to figure out how to join. Reddit used to be like that, once upon a time.

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OK, I apologize for my tone. I’m not here to criticize you. I am legitimately interested in helping:

All of those things you mentioned? Do all of that. Focus on your local feed, check out comments that originate from your instance. That’s how you will get a good feel for those who subscribed to your instance.

And, as others have mentioned, you can sign up to any instance and still interact, however, you are still beholden to the rules of rest of Lemmy. Follow the rules of whatever community you’re commenting or posting in, sure, but, aside from the instances that are defederated, you can interact, post, comment, vote, whatever, regardless of your home instance. It’s just that a lot of people take particular care in choosing their home instance, and they choose a home instance that sociopolitically aligns with their own views.

This is neither necessary, nor demanded from the vast majority of Lemmy users, but it is good practice. It’s just how Lemmy was designed, and if you’re not interested in doing that, fine.

Like any other online interaction forum, what really matters is the quality of your posts and or comments.

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You may have misunderstood me: when I said “the rot has set in” I was referring to the end point. “The rot has set“ would refer to the beginning point.

It is a confusing way of speaking (which I only employed for style), and our collective confusion is a great example of why we don’t speak this way anymore. Lol.

To clarify, the instance only matters if that instance is, itself, inherently political (many ARE). There are many other instances which are apolitical and don’t censor posts based on political bias, unless it is especially extreme, but those are exceptions that are explained when it occurs, which is rarely.

After four days on that instance, have you not figured it out for yourself yet?

You will, eventually

Edit: a bit of instant-hopping is not unusual in the beginning. Part of the Lemmy experience is finding an instance where you feel comfortable. That might take a while and more than a few attempts.

The rot has set in. There’s no getting it out, now.

“Uh… you wanna turn?”

There should be an option for “both”.

Perhaps 3 more, the other 2 being “in it” and the 4th being “all”

Not for me! I left that place years ago…

Back then, the TV and VHS picture quality was somewhere between 240p and 360p. Betamax was the first format available to consumers whose picture was 480p.

Because they spam post with brand new accounts, they often get reported and all of their content taken down within a few hours

This is giving me flashbacks of waiting 10 minutes for a page to load

But I also remember being able to hack in custom animations into that little box. There were some cool ones.

Dude… I’ve used text-based internet. Long, long ago, when all you got was webpages in plain text.

I know what you mean, buddy. I remember when Netscape navigator was a new and amazing piece of software. All I’d ever used before that was NCSA Mosaic.

Well, that’s definitely true, but I would say that the porn industry choosing VHS was more of a symptom of the problem than a cause.

It may have contributed to the failure of Betamax, but there several reasons for the failure of that format.

1. It was expensive. From the cameras to the playback machines, even commercial distribution on Betamax tapes came with an expensive license and fee that VHS did not have.

2. Betamax tapes (initially) were limited to 60 minutes. The VHS tapes were initially 120 or 180 minutes.

3. Betamax machines and Betamax camcorders were much more bulky and heavier and more complicated to use than their VHS alternatives.

Despite its superior quality, Betamax came with a lot of drawbacks, all of which were the major contributors to its downfall. How much porn itself had to do with that, it’s probably not known, but it was not a major contributing factor.