Aa!

My childhood included my mother owning furniture that was decorative, but that we were not allowed to use.

Some was just because children are messy, but some was because the furniture was just old and couldn’t handle abuse from people sitting too hard or putting stress on unexpected angles.

That’s what this makes me think of

This is already a thing that happens currently. Some admins/moderators don’t like being downvoted and ban people for “vote manipulation” because they vote on things in their feed.

It is leading to exactly that, where people are worried that using the voting system as intended will lead to exclusion from participation in some communities.

I want this food, and I like the way your wife plates it.

North America. Is there a pattern of difference?

Zero issues, everything works exactly as I expect

Not to say no issues exist, but I have encountered none, and that is data

This is what I’ve been saying. I think it should go even further and give admins a default block list of users.

A lot of folks talk about how Lemmy became useable after they spent hours (or sometimes a month) blocking the right communities and users, but most social media users don’t want to work that hard, they just want to start doomscrolling.

I can’t say I’ve ever heard that term used without heavy sarcasm before

When Steve divides, which half is Steve and which half is not? Are they both Steve? Neither?

My money is on the one sitting on the right. He does seem to be pondering the button

Is this bot-posted? Why is the alt text section showing the date in recent posts? Is this because they weren’t doing alt text back then?

Try using one of the PWA’s, like Voyager. Just go to vger.app in your browser. It’s still a browser-based front end, but it has more features than the default interface

Is this saying the most money is in vr? That’s the only part of this that is surprising to me.

Edit: Wait no, I think it’s just a confusing graph. It’s definitely all in mobile

There most certainly is a Federation President. There is definitely government, authority, and laws, with Starfleet appearing to be the law enforcement.

I want an instance already established, very populated, and proven to last long term, so I don’t have to create another account

What debacle? The biggest mods out there worked right out of the gate with the next gen update (Sim Settlements 2, for example). Most mods on Nexus have not been updated in years and still work fine

The script extender was updated within hours of the last update, and anyone depending on the script extender was aware that updates would mean they would have to update their se plugins.

All this says for me is that fallout London is likely a mess. And after the way the Frontier turned out, I was not going to get my hopes up until I saw the finished product

I’m not sure what it is “for” exactly, but in practice it tends to show a lot of brand new posts with zero comments or votes

That’s gonna depend on the station you were listening to

Yes, if you want to see Hackernews posts, get them from Hackernews yourself. Reposting to Lemmy just adds more posts with zero engagement that new users will see and be put off of the site for

Several months ago we had three different instances with their own Hackernews communities and their own repost bots posting the exact same things, with zero discussion.

Lemmy needs more actual discussion, and fewer bots adding noise to the feed.

It’s a fantastic show. My biggest complaint is a problem we’ve been seeing with a lot of shows lately: not enough episodes in a season. Almost feels like it’s just a half season really.

But when the biggest complaint is that I wanted more, that’s a good sign.

A lot of people talk about the decentralization being a barrier of entry, but I don’t think it is.

Generally speaking, your average social media user won’t care about that one way or the other. You tell them an instance to look at, they will check it out.

Where I think it goes wrong is the general Lemmy attitude of curating your own feed. Your average Lemmy user will say the best part is that you just block the communities and instances that you don’t want to see.

Your average social media user on the other hand, doesn’t want to spend an hour or a month blocking people and communities to make the site useable. Most folks will come in, see a feed full of tech bros, repost bots with zero discussion, 30 different fetish porn communities, Star Trek memes, and bottom of the barrel shitposts, and they’ll just leave.

The only way I see Lemmy overcoming this is for instance admins to heavily curate the default experience so the feed is friendlier to new users. This would likely require some more tools in place to allow for this, possibly even a default block list that users can customize after they are already drawn in

Also the sorting could be better.