This is cool! Typing with it right now. Have been hoping to see an innovation like this for a long time. (Maybe some proprietary products have come and gone but non-free software doesn’t exist to me unless I really can’t afford to abstain)

It hasn’t been updated in like a year and there is no spell correction. Am I missing something or is this just an acceptable tradeoff for you?

The idea is that you browse your feed of subscriptions, not that you literally go to an instance and browse their local feed.

I don’t know if I solved it by disabling and re-enabling the repo but that’s one of the things I tried and later I could see it.

No, only comments made after they refederate

If this is a reference, I’m not getting it.

While I agree with this assessment, I don’t think dictatorship (or authoritarianism more generally) is a solution to this problem. I don’t know what the solution is, but I can speculate about various properties a solution might have, and one of them is that citizens/members of a community should be encouraged to participate in domain-specific politics that they know and care about without requiring them to form opinions about things they don’t know much about.

We are all ignorant about things we don’t spend time trying to understand and we should learn to respect that fact. This applies to leaders as well; no dictator or small group of people – no matter how many advisors they have – could possibly make informed decisions pertaining to all aspects of running a society. Glorifying or worshipping a leader or a party is madness we’re all prone to as we seek simple answers that are consistent with our preconceived notions of how the world works.

As far as I thought I knew, you can’t follow mastodon accounts from Lemmy. Is my understanding incorrect?

You may need to shift your expectations of the federation model. It’s not trying to solve the problem of needing separate accounts on separate sites (that’s what we need portable identities for and I hope we see that in the near future). It’s trying to solve the problem of enabling self-governing communities and preventing platform lock-in.