Does that make French PHP?

This is why I like the term “Windshield bias,” a very common issue is talking about a space/experience someone has only experienced from behind a windshield, and getting someone to have a different experience can help cure that

“Windshield Bias” is a term I think needs to be more widely-used, because it’s more of a description of the issue than an insult

Absolutely! As Arthur’s theme song says - “Every day when you’re walking down the street everybody that you meet has an original point of view"

When you’re in a car, other people are obstacles instead of opportunities for connection. On for or a bike you can easily have connections ranging from a nod to pausing for a full conversation, and even changing plans to go along with a friend you run into.

Yeah, if the biggest thing we have to talk about here is how we’re glad we aren’t there, it’s never going to grow into its own thing. I don’t want to be part of a ‘we hate reddit’ club, I want to be part of a ‘cool things on the internet’ club

If Lemmy takes off I wouldn’t be at all surprised if tech companies hosted instances that they monetize through advertising, and many people would be willing to have a home instance that showed them ads in exchange for high stability and potentially more user-friendly clients

The example of federation most people have experience with is email. There will almost certainly be gmails and yahoos emerging over time, but they will have limited control compared to reddit, because if you don’t like the filtering/advertizing/whatever of one you’re free to leave for another

Sharing creative projects, engaging in discussion, and building an online community

An account on an instance is like an email address - if you have a @gmail.com email and a @yahoo.com email, you can interact with people from both. The spam filtering might be slightly different (different instances have a variety of ways they get configured), but both generally get the same job done.

There are reasons you might want multiple to separate things, or you can abandon ones you don’t need and just pick one to stick with!

I’ve seen that as well, but that existed on reddit and even IRL - religions and clubs nearly overlapping due to either disagreements or lack of awareness of each other predates the internet by centuries.