Yes.
I spent a bunch of time translating some notes into posts and got one comment and a handful of upvotes. If I saw stats saying 20 or 30 people spent time looking at the posts without interacting, then it would feel like it’s worth doing again.
(I realize Lemmy doesn’t track view time, but still)
Sometimes it feels like I’m posting into the void. It doesn’t feel like it’s worth the effort.
There isnt much discourse to be had when everyone on here already agrees, and I don’t mean I miss right wing voices. Just that I dont need to talk about politics with people who think virtually exactly the same as me about these things.
Yes. There’s little or no novelty here. I’m not surprised by something new or interesting. I get a lot of nostalgia hits because we’ve all experienced similar things.
One person makes a proposal. The other either says it’s okay, or makes a counter-proposal. Revisit after a month or two, and adjust as necessary.
It’s like the other parts of a relationship: identify problems, seek agreement, make suggestions, back off when necessary, check to see if changes have improved anything.
I don’t think this is an age thing:
fixation on trivialities about a client’s appearance or something funny he did instead of getting directly to the point
I see this a lot on political comments on Lemmy and Reddit. People call politicians they don’t like weird pet names and insult their appearance. It’s like they’ve been classified as “other” so the normal rules don’t apply.
There’s value in referring to everyone respectfully. It’s easy to throw clients into the out group because they’re relatively transient. Don’t. Have empathy. Focus on what you have in common and shared goals.
if I get banned from one instance then I can make a new account in some instance too?
Yes. You can always create a new account on a different instance.
We’re going with a bit of both: time limits and exclusion, and an explanation why.
We progressives are great at purity tests. IMO it’s part of the reason big tent populists do better than us.
Eff you turds for downvoting objective fact you anti-intellectual turds. I’m as progressive and anti-corporate as it gets, you undereducated morons.
Lemmy can suck like that. If you post something that can be misconstrued outside of our tiny Overton window, you get downvotes. Lots and lots of downvotes.
I get eye aches pretty quickly without enough light. I find I need light behind and around my monitor otherwise I get soreness.
A single light in the ceiling, controlled by a wired switch next to the door.
When I want light, I want a lot of it; when I want dark, I want complete darkness.
It autorenews and it’s relatively expensive.
I wouldn’t do that DNA test, because it’s really sensitive data.
WikiTree is a free alternative to the genealogical database. The genealogy nerd in my life says that its data is a bit better. Ymmv.
Who asked the glass?
I’d love to take credit for the summary, JuxtaposedJaguar did the work.
The Thatcher effect or Thatcher illusion is a phenomenon where it becomes more difficult to detect local feature changes in an upside-down face, despite identical changes being obvious in an upright face.
That’s a quality summary.
In the 90s it was seen as a backwater with growing power. There was a sense that China’s economic growth would push it towards democracy. Tiananmen Square seemed like proof of that.
100% usability and algorithm. I still visit Reddit because r/all is perfectly entertaining rage bait.
Lemmy is fine usability-wise, but we’re short engaging content.
Mastodon’s lack of algorithm makes it a really hard long-term sell.
Hey fellow Canadian. I pay about the same. Looking at these other responses, I think we’re getting screwed.