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  • Community search function sucks, so browsing all is really the only viable solution to find new communities.

    Also often you can find communities you didn’t even think to search for in all, which is probably the most important function on lemmy as long as it lacks so many of the niche communities which thrived on reddit.





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    1 year ago

    That is a pretty ironic comment because that is not what the paradox of tolerance is at all. The paradox of tolerance is that intolerance needs to be suppressed for tolerance to exist, since tolerance can’t exist alongside intolerance.

    The paradox is that tolerance needs to be intolerant towards intolerance in order for a tolerant society to exist, literally the exact opposite of what you wrote.



  • It is problematic though. Having access to information is not the same as using it. We have kinda “outsourced” most of what was considered common knowledge back then. We think we don’t have to remember a lot of “common knowledge” because we can just look it up. But how often do we actually look up that fact instead of just assuming something, even though that information can be accessed immediately?

    If you think about it, it is most likely less often than you would have assumed, because it becomes a bother contintually having to look up facts in the middle of something. By having memorised a lot of common knowledge you can immediately incorporate that knowledge into your decisions, as they did back then, instead of having to pause your decisionmaking in order to look something up.