IT IS AS THE PROPHECY FORETOLD, SWORD OF MY FATHERS.ᐟ

Agreed. For Lemmy content, Lemmy’s UI is perfectly cromulent.

Ara was pretty cool. I really like the idea, but I was never clear on what the mods would contain.

A couple are obvious: biggest batteries and fancier cameras, but what then? I can see enthusiast stuff like an IR camera, and maybe some nonstandard radios. But is that enough to appeal to most consumers?

Doesn’t Twitter hide the usernames of people in the thread but still notify them? I thought it had some quality of life tweak that made conversations a bit easier to read.

That’s my kind of globalization.

They don’t currently interact properly. When a Mastodon post shows up in Lemmy, it doesn’t have an appropriate title, the body usually has a bunch of mentions, and the responses aren’t worded like normal Lemmy comments.

I can’t speak to protocol interoperability, but culturally, Mastodon posts rarely work in Lemmy.

Add it to the list.

https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2023/12/raw-milk-cheese-sickens-six-children-in-france/

Everything else was probably filtered out by his pants and underwear.

Step zero is “be the type of person who wants to install Linux”, which is probably the key part of our demographic.

Going to restaurants and movies gets expensive fast. If it’s just me, there’s no way I’m burning through my disposable income on that stuff.

Damn right! This is where induced demand comes in: better sidewalks and dedicated bike/scooter lanes will make this happen even faster.

Say it!

I only saw the first two episodes of the 1990 OVA on scratchy VHS when it made the rounds in North America. I remember really liking it. I guess I’ll have to track it down and see where the story went.

At this point I’m just hoping BlueSky gets it right and provides a federation protocol.

One of the biggest issues with federated social media is discovery

Exactly this. IIRC the Mastodon devs don’t want to add recommendation algorithms, since those can be gamed. The problem is that many users rely on them to bootstrap their account and find ongoing events.

There are other issues. Missing features (cited by people who bailed from Mastodon):

1. a lack of “trending” list - that means journalists and other people who want to know what’s happening right now didn’t have a way to find events.

2. no suggestions for follows. As a new user, how do people know what to follow?

3. no suggested posts. Once I scroll through all the posts from the people I follow, the system doesn’t provide me with new posts.

4. no quote tweets.

It isn’t just that Mastodon has a weird onboarding experience, it’s that it doesn’t behave the way Twitter users have come to expect/need. I realize that is usually by design.

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