You are using piefed, so in the web ui you can click the three dot menu and select the remind me option. This isn’t in the api though, so it wouldn’t be in a third-party app unless they implemented it separately.

Nothing to do with federation. piefed.zip decided not to make their modlog public. It’s an admin setting within piefed. IIRC, it isn’t an option in lemmy.

Also a former big fan of RIF and I found Boost a fairly easy transition.

Piefed does allow users the option to not federate their votes. So harvesting that data would mean needing local access to the infrastructure or snooping on traffic to/from your local instance.

Thanks for pointing this out. I am not that active on masto, but I am from the Boston area, so this might be the kick I need to check out that side of the fediverse. I lived in Somerville for 10 years before more recently moving to the burbs. I wouldn’t want to live anywhere else in this country these days.

Growing up in the US, other responders are correct that school systems vary a lot depending on what state/district you live in. Over the course of my K-12 education, I attended 10 different schools across three states because my family moved a lot. There were times where I would switch schools and suddenly be way ahead in some subject and have completely skipped over some other topics. As an example, I never took a course in world history, but ended up having three separate US history courses because the different districts taught those subjects in different grades.

I do take issue with some of the commenters painting all US schools with a broad brush as terrible. There are excellent schools in the US and excellent school systems. As an example, I currently live in Massachusetts, and if you took it as its own country, it would be one of the best school systems in the world. In general, the states that prioritize education and pay teachers well end up with better educational outcomes. It’s not that surprising really, but a huge portion of the country seems to ignore that fact or spend money in less efficient ways.

discuss.online is doing it right. There is a significant overlap between discuss.online and lemmy.world’s admin teams, and I generally think they handle it about as well as could be expected of a general-purpose instance of their scale.

As for piefed, I think the primary things that help users filter their experience are the additional blocks that are at their disposal; blocking communities with a word in their name, blocking posts that match keywords, blocking posts that point to certain domains, etc. However, it can only help if a user actually goes through the effort of setting them up.

I’m pretty sure that’s what is happening and I am really looking forward to it.

So, I see you joined ani.social and you have made mention of enjoying Japanese media elsewhere in this thread. In that case, I have some community recommendations for you:

• !anime@ani.social - The most active community for anime discussion (disclosure - I am a community mod)
• !manga@ani.social - The most active community for manga discussion (disclosure - I am a community mod)
• !lightnovels@ani.social - Community for Japanese light novels
• !animemes@ani.social - Memes, but anime
• !anime_irl@ani.social - Other anime memes

There are plenty of other communities out there for specific pieces of media, if you are looking for those as well. Some of the more active ones I am aware of:

• !frieren@ani.social - Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End - Season 2 is airing right now!
• !dungeonmeshi@ani.social - Delicious in Dungeon
• !gundam@ani.social - General Gundam community (disclosure - I am a community mod)
• !bocchitherock@sopuli.xyz - Bocchi the Rock
• !onepiece@lemmy.world - One Piece
• !overlord@sopuli.xyz - Overlord
• any of the communities on bookwyr.me - Ascendance of a Bookworm

lemmy.ml defederated from ani.social ages ago, so OP is at least spared on that front.

Pretty easy for me as I tend to not comment too much other than about development issues and bug reports. So, I usually have my user flair set to PieFed Contributor or something along those lines.