I didn’t make the initial comment and I would have thought it was pretty bloody obvious I was making a joke with my second sentence. I was trying to make the explanation less dry, but thanks for the hostility. Reminds me of fuckin’ Reddit.
Calling university “school” is not a universal practice in English.
Edit: last time I explain someone else’s comment…
In much of the world “school” does not refer to higher education. Unless you meant that you went back to your high school at 32.
Edit: looks at negative score Did I need some emojis or some shit to make it clear that I was taking the piss? Back to “school” with you lot.
My question was about OP’s feelings specifically. I could compile a list for or against myself, that wasn’t what I was asking for.
What specifically don’t you like about it?
This is what I miss the internet being. Great work!
This has me wondering if anyone has sculpted space marine heads based on the Advanced Power Armor helmets.
Yeah, the previews I saw massively put me off. It looked uninspired if we’re being generous.
I’m reminded of forums that would have a million subforums and as a result never build up any critical mass. Have one big bucket, maybe two, and if something comes up often enough organically then, and only then, consider a separate subforum for it.
Whenever anyone tells me a discussion should be moved I am done. The spell is broken and the social interaction concluded because I’m no longer interested. Discord channels are fucking social poison.
I feel a fundamental problem is the ephemeral post model. If one isn’t actively contributing frequently it’s effectively the same as not being part of the community at all.
Seeing lots of familiar faces in threads, even if they didn’t post today, helped.
With regards to your point though, I think it’s one of the reasons I’m not fussed about getting “everyone” onto a single platform. It’s too many people!
I’m honestly not sure this is a bad thing. Dear God, remember how threads would get blown out by hyper-configurations? Sig blocks that were 20,000 pixels long and endless GIF spam? Not sure I’m in a hurry to get back to that!
Honestly, no, none of the forums I ever used allowed that sort of things for, well, for obvious reasons!
Anyway, my reasoning for this is to help make it easier to mentally anchor a given interaction to a user. On things like Lemmy and Reddit I feel like it’s a constant sea of random usernames - there’s no persistence or community. I could well have spoken to the same person multiple times but I don’t notice because they’re so anonymous.
Being designed around persistent topics rather than the ephemeral post model and more visible user customisation (more prominent avatars, signatures, that sort of thing).
Something I was hopeful for but seems to have died is lemmyBB. A phpBB-style front-end to Lemmy. I’d like the accessibility of being able to use an existing account that federation brings but the forum-style approach that phpBB has.
Mostly though I’ve been disappointed in the teens and twenty-somethings. They seem to have, in distressingly large numbers, just opted to go along with whatever they’re encouraged to use by large platform holders. There doesn’t seem to be an appetite to create communities and define spaces that they control. Perhaps that’s just me getting old though…
Last year I felt like the only films being released were sequels, spinoffs, or remakes. I’ve not checked this year so far because last year crushed my spirit on that front.
I’m not in the US, so this is just armchairing, but it seems like you guys already know what you need to do but there’s political reasons not to do it. The failure in education is intentional. That needs addressing and then mass campaigning to do better as a nation on many fronts. Patriotism needs to be used as a tool to drive national improvement, not as a shield against any criticism of it.
One of my own nations isn’t doing well on the education front either, but I suspect there it’s more of a long term “starve the beast” strategy rather than a “critical thinking skills reduce the efficacy of propaganda” situation. Still bad, but more callous than actively evil.
Gods forbid we make new IPs.
I’m contracted for 37.5 hours per week, which is pretty normal for the UK.
Corporate-owned media can get fucked. Adapting vocabulary to the whims of their feckless advertisers is complicity.
I feel like it’s rare to encounter another person that doesn’t love San Andreas. It was fine, I guess, but I really didn’t find the setting compelling. The kitchen sink approach to game mechanics didn’t help either.