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.

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.

laughs in Evoker

I’d love to take credit for the summary, JuxtaposedJaguar did the work.

That’s a quality summary.

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.

https://www.kurthuggins.com/illustration

Google cut nearly a thousand other employees in its Pixel, Nest, Fitbit and Voice Assistant units in January this year, while it cut “only a few teams” in its Cloud Computing division in February. The largest round of cuts came in early 2023 when Google’s parent firm Alphabet announced it would cut 12 000 jobs, or six percent of its global workforce.

Ouch

Maybe treat them like a devil? They lose all experience gained in the previous iteration of existence and start again in their home plane.

a racket, if you will

I had a pretty disastrous fight with my wizard, so I came up with a little list of “when X happens, use A,B, or C”. That made combat much easier, since it had a list of escape methods for when I was cornered, spells to deal with invisible monsters, stuff to deal damage when I was in a safe spot, etc.

It only had five or six entries, but it made my turns way faster in combat.

Let me check my spell list. Huh. Okay, now I need to check the source book, oh wait, it’s in this expansion…

We all have our reasons for being here. The politics is definitely depressing, but it’s something a lot of Lemmites have in common.

You’re right that it’d be nice if there was more going on.

We’re negative doomscrollers, true. But most people seem pretty polite, at least in my experience.

This. There has been a huge investment in the tooling around JS. Using TypeScript, you get the benefit of that ecosystem with a decent language.

It isn’t perfect, but it’s perfectly cromulent.

Take a look at the global feed. Subscribe to what you like. Eventually you’ll have enough.

I only heard Coast to Coast a few times. The first couple of times I thought it was some kind of radio play (like the ones they used to play late on CBC) or art project. When I realized the callers were sincere, it just seemed sad.

There’s also laziness. Until recently I didn’t care about a will because I didn’t have dependents or assets.

My older relatives have taken the appropriate steps: created wills, had discussions with their families about what is to be done after their deaths, paid for funerals, and arranged interment.

As are mortgages, car loans, and insurance.