I’m no economist, but it’s interesting how a free market and more competition doesn’t result in a better product for consumers. Just each company going “oh, the other guy raised their prices, let’s do the same or we’ll fall behind”

What is your definition of anti-Semitism?

I agree…It’s a tense situation but words have meaning. Anti-Netanyahu does not mean Antisemitism.

Mine is in an unfinished room at the corner of the basement where the main line comes in and replacing it took the plumber life

RIP poor plumber

Realistic scenario: half the workers show up in person just to log into a video conference anyway because the other half is remote.

Pok guy - Cantonese phrase meaning falling on the street (literal translation) or hope you die on the street/suddenly (as an insult)

Want to quickly point out that this whole thing was probably prompted by LTT’s Lab folks (who’s responsible for testing I guess), publicly name-dropping Gamers Nexus when comparing how their own testing methodology was seemingly better.

Ya, but it proves I lived through the 90’s 😆

Waaazzzaaaap

But you just negated your initial argument by using Apple as an example…?

Isn’t that one of the side effects of having a federated universe? I don’t feel it’s so much riding your work as it is combining conversations within a single deduped community.

Also, if nothing is done about it, wouldn’t we keep having issues like this: https://lemmy.ca/post/2821804

I visited California a few times, and LA is not a great tourist destination imo. But other parts of California is beautiful

Any plans to improve the sorting algorithm so that there’s a good balance of fresh posts at the top that’s also fairly active? And to help promote smaller communities that would have otherwise been dominated by the posts from bigger instances.

Any concerns about duplicate communities across multiple instances? People have made the argument that it’s like having different flavors of subreddits on Reddit, but it’s a flawed analogy. Individual instances have incentive to make their own communities flourish, whether or not there’s a duplicate already available.

Gentle turbulence actually helps, believe it or not.

Except for the millions of Windows users…

Yeah it’s the reason, back on Reddit, that I’m able to see posts from smaller subreddits show up near the top of my feed because it’s popular relative to the number of subscribers of that subreddit.

I try to remember to always under promise expectations. Even after all these years I keep forgetting that a simple change is never really that simple and has lots of overhead.

I might be in the minority, but shitpost memes like “I’ll draw a shitty picture every day until x happens” or “I’ll do this based on Y upvotes”, and the “here’s a random hotdog/Gatorade bottle everyday”. I know I can probably just block these kinds of posts, I just never got the appeal of it.

Yea, I eventually just resorted to playing the offline modes. It’s much more fun than the rat race that is myteam

It’s probably the closest thing to reddit right now (even down to the shitposting memes unfortunately) but I wouldn’t say it has the same feel quite yet. I still find the distributed nature confusing (am I in the lemmy.world’s technology community, or lemmy.ml’s? How do I get to beehaws instance?) and navigating between instances is a chore. I realize though that situation is very fluid and if users can get over the hump and start investing into their communities and lemmy as a technology it can get better.

Also I rely on mobile apps to navigate the majority of the time. There are some decent ones out there now, like Connect for Android. But it definitely is still buggy, and is not as fluid as my experience with Relay for reddit. But again, nothing that can’t be fixed.

Some of my favorite subreddits still hasn’t shown up yet as communities in any of the major lemmy instances, and I honestly feel it’s going to take a very long time for that to happen for some of the more niche ones. The user base I honestly believe will never reach even close to reddit’s numbers.

So in a nutshell, good promise, closest thing to reddit, but still has a long way to go.