Kichae @ Kichae @lemmy.ca

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I mean, there's a real difference between separating the art from the artist and separating the commodity from the producer. One is about enjoying or appreciating a work, while the other is about buying or funding it.

Capitalism looks to forcefully equate the two, and that's really a more important discussion, but it's not the same thing.

My parente had a 92 GTP. It was half the car of the later models, and I still miss it. There was just something about those Grand Prixes.

Lack of granular privacy / profile control

This has been covered. This is a content-sharing network. Emphasis on both sharing and network. This means things that are posted are, by design, sent across the network. It's not a walled garden; it's the antithesis of a walled garden.

The only way for your posts to be seen by people on other websites is for those posts to be sent to those other websites, openly.

Poor content discovery / lack of niche communities / limited diversity

This isn't a Lemmy issue, but the fact that it keeps coming up again and again framed as one is telling of the giant misconception people have about the Fediverse in general, and "Lemmy" in particular.

Lemmy is not a website. Or a space. It's a website engine. Complaining about the quality or variety of content "on Lemmy" is like complaining about the content "on WordPress".

The content that is here is actually almost magically discoverable, because that content likely didn't start where you are, and website search bars only search their own databases. This is as true of lemmy.dbzer0.com as it is of Google itself. That's why webspiders exist, to bring the content of the internet into Google's database.

Fragmentation across instances / duplication of communities

This is the nature of linking multiple different forum-based websites together. Some of them will have their own sub-forums for their own population to use that are similar to sub-forums on another website. Those two sub-forums may have similar, or even the same, name, but that doesn't mean they should be treated as the same place by people outside of them.

The constant drive by people not using those sub-forums to consolidate said sub-forums, because of fucking aesthetics, is pretty directly disrespectful to the people using those sub-forums.

"Lemmy" is not a singular space. It's a network of independent websites that have agreed to syndicate content. That means they are both in cooperation and competition with each other. Kicking and screaming that one or another should give up its own various cultures and nuances for the sake of some pan-fediverse whole is kind of a dick move.

It's one thing if two websites just want to explicitly merge, but to just be like "why is there Burger King and McDonald's on the same street? Everyone should just be in one burger joint!" is kinda entitled.

Bad User Experience (UX) / usability issues

Reddit users complaining that things are different isn't really good evidence of bad UX. At least the NodeBB discussion is getting close to the fundamental issue, but everyone seems to want the solution to it to be to force websites running Lemmy servers to act as dumb nodes in someone else's project. And you're not going to get too many hobby site owners signing up for that.

The solution is to highlight the independence of Fediverse websites, but then you get everyone whining about how small it is, how hard it is to find things, blah blah blah.

Search and archive weak/incomplete

Search is actually pretty good, if you're on a busy server. At least in my experience.

Archiving old content, though... That's getting back into a whole "demand volunteers shoulder the responsibility for hosting other websites' content indefinitely" thing.

Over-representation of particular content types (US-news, memes, agenda posts) and low content-quality

And we're back to "users aren't talking about what I want to hear", which... K.

Not the government, not UCP voters, but Albertans.

Sorry, I lived too many years in Alberta to distinguish between how Alberta treats the rest of Canada, and how Albertans treat the rest of Canada. Y'all got a cultural problem out there, and I was subjected to it for the better part of a decade.

Demanding more of the rich is a sin under the church of capitalism.

The thing is, they haven't chosen not to decide, they've chosen to hide behind the rhetoric of not choosing. Substack chose the Nazis, fairly explicitly. And I'm sure Sequoia wouldn't be neutral if the female COO had been making anti-Israel posts.

Weirdly enough, most companies collecting your data are actually really bad at doing so. Business people don't prioritize data at all, and data collection is a total afterthought, often treated as a major inconvenience. It costs money, and they can't charge for it.

The reason why there was no fallback is because that would have cost money to implement, and they can't imagine someone wanting to use their product that way.

This is really important to remember. The diagnosis is that your life is sufficiently disordered to need meaningful accommodations or support due to your autistic traits, not whether you have autistic traits. And whether you need accommodations or support is entirely a judgement call, being made from someone not living your life.

No. You don't get to just decide you have the right to use someone else's work just because you coudn't find them to ask, any more than you get to decide that you can use their car. Them not actively selling their works isn't the equivalent of leaving the car derilict on public property.

Yes. Believe it or not, the coke and pepsi being made in Canada makes people feel significantly less pressure to boycott them. Believe it or not, this makes sense when you think about how most people make decisions and the factors involved in those decisions.

Being smug about it doesn't change it.

I like Trilium Notes. It's rich text based, not markdown based, but haas most of the organiation structures of Obsidian. It doesn't have the user base nor volume of plugin support, though. It does have a canvas mode for inking, but it's a separate note type, not part or every note.

For a purer inking environment, look at Xournal++. It's not as feature rich as OneNote, but it has the basics.

Or, you could try running OneNote with WINE. It looks like you'd have to use OneNote 2010 or 2013, though.

I started watching in the 7th.

It was a fun game. Let's have another!

"Balance" gets abused a lot, as a term. It means multiple things, and it results in people talking past each other.

Intra-party balance -- that is, everyone in the party being approximately equally capable -- is important for most tables because most people resent getting clowned on by their so-called allies.

Creature/encounter balance is not about forcing the fights players get into to be fair, but about having a reliable way of telling how hard the fight will be. That knowledge is not an obligation to make the fights fair.

That's dying. Bleeding out. It's not even necessarily truly unconscious (even if it is Unconscious).

Start work earlier

They're visible on other fedi platforms, making it trivially easy for assholes to go looking for who downvoted them anyway. The illusion of safety is a dereliction of duty to users.

Also, downvotes exist to allow large social sites to give the illusion of moderation and user agency while ignoring their duty to actually manage their spaces. They're not needed here, and their existence promotes excessively large and unmanageable communities where people shout into voids and engage with hostility rather than discuss topics with people. Their use and inclusion should be seriously reconsidered.

"Don't worry, it's just a name!"

Gets attacked by trolls.

"I thought it was just a name!"

Not unless and until the entity in control of the robo umps isn't thr MLB itself. No one should want that in the hands of the ownership. There'd be zero oversight over the zone at all.

This is the league that mysteriously starts swaping out baseballs when certain players are garnering national media attention. Don't think the strike zones won't start shifting when it becomes convenient.

Bingo.

Every business mogual loves a fascist oligarchy until they discover they're on the outside.

Weirdly enough, the American compulsion to try and annex us has deep roots, too. I'd guess equally deep.