Pog

30 new ships in a year? I doubt it. I mean, they can’t even afford to keep one aircraft carrier running.

I’ll have to disagree there. When you Favourite a post, the person that posted it gets a notification about the fact, while if you Bookmark something no notification is sent. In effect you are telling the person that you “Liked” their post.

Also, looking at the Explore section of Mastodon the following message is shown at the top of the feed:

These are posts from across the social web that are gaining traction today. Newer posts with more boosts and favorites are ranked higher.

So those Favourites are used by the algorithm to rank posts. Bookmarks are totally private and only used to save posts for your own use.

I don’t see it that way. There are separate options to Favourite or Bookmark a post. To me Bookmarking something is so you can refer to it later, although nothing is stopping you using Favourites that way.

There is a save button, looks like a star (on the desktop Lemmy).

When there was an influx of users during the Reddit blackout, they said that they were getting lots of trolls and they couldn’t keep up with the moderation. Lemmy.world and Sh.itjust.works had the most traffic and were letting people sign up without vetting so the Beehaw admins decided to defederate those communities.

Calm down there Caligula.

I’m not a Catholic, or Christian, or any other religion, but the dude should retire. His health is not good. Benedict XVI set a precedent for papal retirement and maybe it’s time to take advantage of that. Pope John Paul II was basically a vegetable for the last years of his papacy. There’s no need to repeat that.