It’s as intended. It actually used to be 5 levels until a few months ago

Get a washlet brand bidet if you can. Have had mine several years now and it still works great. I miss it when I’m not at home

Super rad, I’m gonna try and catch Pixel Power tonight at 11

Yes

He is a little gentleman! 🐌🎩

Probably uses the Lemmy API to detect which instance you’re logged into or you log in directly when prompted.

I’ve been using and enjoying both. I’ve used Lemmy way more because it has a public API which means mobile apps. Kbin is a bit more to my liking and it’s great on desktop, but it regrettably doesn’t have a public API at the moment. Mastodon is okay as a Twit stand-in but having to brute-force a feed is a learning curve.

We say that we as humans have “higher reasoning” but most of, if not all of, our reasoning is predicated on animal instincts. People are capable of thinking through their actions and emotions and such, sure. Those same people also don’t always do so. How many times have you or someone you know let their emotions get the better of them, even if they are “aware” of them? That’s not really any different from a spooked horse running off or a hurt dog trying to bite the person trying to help.

“Higher awareness” is much the same. In fact many animals have senses far greater than ours (like a dog’s sense of smell) or which we lack entirely (like sonar.)

All mammals at least have similar brain structures with the same general set of glands and functions. Even the way humans think and feel and reason is different from one another, but we can still identify core emotions in one another. I don’t think it’s a stretch to say that just because animals don’t experience the world exactly like us, doesn’t mean they don’t have similar feelings and reasons for feeling those things.

You don’t have to. Implementation is a bit buggy but in theory you should be able to subscribe to and view all content from federated instances from your “home” instance

So theoretically you should be able to make one account and view a majority of content. This is barring of course any instances or communities defederated from your home instance.

There’s merit in making a community for your interest on your home instance even if you’re subscribed to it on a different instance, for reasons like outages and a diversity of content. Lemmy being bigger than other instances just means there’s more content available here, but if you like the layout of kbin or Mastodon or what have you better you can still see it all.

Plus, just because two instances are federated doesn’t mean the users actually see all the information exchanged. You have to actually opt into it which is cool- ie if an instances particular community is problematic you can just block it and sub to the rest.

Edit: got so wrapped up in my TED talk I forgot to mention- I’m currently trying out Lemmy, sh.itjust.works, and kbin.social until I can settle on one (hopefully kbin gets an app soon lol.)

I think for now it’s working as intended. There is an unprecedented amount of new users, after all. I imagine that over time, probably by the end of the year, communication between instances will be much more seamless once bugs get squashed