I don’t know if there’s a word for it, but there’s a comic for it:

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I stumbled onto the community from all/top hour when it was in its infancy. I browse “top hour” a lot to try and boost lemmy from the ground up, and was excited to see a new community promoting OC (something that a lot of other users at the time were lamenting was severely lacking on lemmy). However what I saw were clearly not OC photos, and so I tried to do the “right thing” and comment that the posts were inappropriate for the community (again, with the intention of helping a new community flourish by nipping bad content in the bud). I guess because I came from “top hour” I did not notice that the creator/sole mod of the community was the poster, so Stamets probably interpreted my comments as more condescending than I intended (as again, I thought I was directing the comment at a “lost lemming”). As with OP, it didn’t go over well and I got banned.

Honestly my lemmy usage went down quite a bit after the experience, because it made me reflect on the amount of time and effort I was making to create/mod my own communitites, post OC, promote smaller posts/communities, etc., all for the “greater good” of supporting lemmy/the fediverse. It would be one thing if Stamets had taken the hint from the many comments received and either renamed or altered the content of the community, but it’s hard not to get a sour taste in your mouth to see what I at least interpret to be misinformation (in an era when misinformation literally led the so-called greatest nation on earth straight into fascism) continue unimpeded.

At no point has Gmail ever said “we’re no longer allowing you to send/receive emails to/from Hotmail” or has Yahoo said “we’re maintained by a single volunteer who because of real life stuff can no longer continue so we’re discontinuing our email service.”

But this literally happens with instances all the time.

I’m a fediverse supporter (obviously, that’s why I’m here), however what you’re looking for requires a critical mass of users that the fediverse (at least the Lemmy side of it) will never achieve as long as two very critical problems persist:

1. sign up is confusing. People are used to clicking “create an account,” inputting a user name, password, and maybe an email, and then BAM they’re a user. I realize the whole instance thing is the entire point, but no one wants nor expects to have to do significant research and make a decision about how they want to interact with a social media site before they’ve even started using it.

2. the site (or at least lemmy.world) is sooo slooow. Basic functions like loading images take me back to the dial-up era of “click the image then do something else while it loads,” which is downright ridiculous in the 2020s. Again I’ve stuck with it because I want to support the fediverse, but 99% of users won’t.

And no, these aren’t “features not bugs” unless you want to keep the site small and homogenous.

AFAIK it’s primarily (exclusively?) a Canadian thing

Read the article: they were indoor only cats

Milky vs Morepork?

How do you expect vegans to vote under these conditions???

Japan is an outlier for numerous reasons, the biggest of which is that housing value there decreases over time (without going into the causes, the result is a feedback loop where housing isn’t built to last because it’s a poor long-term investment, so it depreciates like other semi-short-lived products, such as cars). This isn’t something the government planned, it came about naturally. So I wouldn’t say they’ve “solved” housing so much as their situation has made it a non-issue.

Are you comparing bagged tea or looseleaf? I feel like bagged tea tends to taste pretty similar, especially if sourced from a grocery store vs a tea shop.

You’d be surprised how often this kind of thing can be rectified by a friendly conversation with the store manager. Not always, but often enough to make the effort.

Well then, my hot take is going to be that she was miscast and it was to the show’s benefit that Worf took over as security chief.

Star Trek is a franchise about a bunch of nerds striving to find a “better way” to run society

Lemmy is a platform populated by a bunch of nerds striving to find a “better way” to run social media

Not surprising that there’s overlap

Apparently I’ve just trained myself to click around them.

Don’t want to disable NSFW in case I miss a spicy meme

Broken clocks…

The 90s aesthetic doesn’t make the second gen series unwatchable, but damn if it isn’t hella distracting. (It’s the hair. And the wardrobe. But mostly the hair.)

Someone didn’t watch the Star Wars prequels

“not your grandma’s environmentalism”

“next-gen tree-huggers”

“thinks the Japanese are evil” needs to be a lot bigger…

It’s not a difficult bar (heh) to clear. Keep a stock of frozen pizzas on hand, have a cheap countertop pizza oven, bam, food requirement satisfied.

Something tells me audiences in 1952 had slightly different tastes. Also the 1920s probably felt a lot more relevant; hardly anyone alive today remembers the silent-to-talkie transition, but it would have been an experience that many folks had personally witnessed back then.