I still don’t understand what it is and I read it. Oh, well. *continues with Mint*

*childfree!

I see my wording was kind of weird. What I meant is: if I set these RSS feeds, will the combined feed show only new content from that moment on, or everything/old notifications that I had already marked as read?

The more that I think about it, it’s not actually about new notifications, but old material whose account I can’t remember it was on! Can it retrieve past stuff at the moment of setting?

I accidentally made, like, 6 accounts, each on a different instance when first joining Lemmy because I didn’t understand what federation in the field of decentralization meant LOL. Since I learned, I just kept them and have since rotated through them, partly for an illusory sense of slightly added privacy, but mostly to try to mitigate the blow of the loss of any one account in case its instance goes kaput for any reason. I guess it also gives the added benefit of Lemmy appearing more active lol (but I never comment on my own posts nor comments; that’d be wild).

Basically, if someone’s response to me was interesting and I wanted to reference it later, a unified inbox would solve the problem of having to recall which account was involved.

VK is a Russian Facebook equivalent, invented by Pavel Durov who himself was eventually cast out of Russia and went on to build and run Telegram. I think he’s in France.

The groupthink on forums is ridiculous, and you don’t need to be a capitalist nor anticapitalist to recognize that. I, too, hope that we can have healthy discussions of starkly different views.