I hate the notion that fringe lunatics have opinions that are just as valuable as anyone else’s. Push that fucking Overton Window back to somewhere sane. We do need people shutting these disruptive idiots down. The answer is not just to act like they’re not there.

Has that approach worked on any bully ever?

If someone shows up at a party and starts shit the answer isn’t to expect the other partygoers to put in earplugs.

Single serving friends. I really don’t like it.

I guess the problem was and always is, when there’s too many people, it ruins things.

This is the thing when people talk about the Fediverse’s traffic compared to Reddit. To me it’s very much a feature. I don’t think trying to get everyone and their dog on the same platform is a particularly good idea!

Precisely! It’s not half bad for that but the way people use it does my head in 😂

Yeah, I get a bit of it through Mastodon and I’ve been to a meetup there which was delightful (Jeff Minter bought me fish & chips!). I think a bit more emphasis on user profiles (bigger avatars, signatures, stuff like that) would help a lot.

I’ve run forums and been part of them. At the moment I don’t really have time but I expect I will again in future. I keep using stuff like Lemmy but it just doesn’t make my brain happy like forums did.

The asynchronous nature of them helped a great deal. Here I feel like threads have a lifespan of a day or two at most. I don’t want to have to engage immediately in order to take part.

I also don’t like the whole upvote/downvote thing. I’m good at it but it colours every interaction in a way I find deeply problematic.

It was the forum replacement thing that baffles me.

It’s a chat client, not a community building tool. It’s the round peg square hole thing that baffles me.

I cannot fathom the popularity of Discord. It’s IRC with rich media support - what good is that as a replacement for non-ephemeral communities?

Tremendously. Forums give me a social boost, social media and Reddit-alikes don’t. As you say - disembodied voices.

I detest the deliberately ephemeral nature of modern platforms.

That’s what she looks like these days? My gods. Just be cool with aging, FFS.

My wife was told at her old job that she had a “very expressive face”.

I’m not surprised! Mine was put through the ringer during its decade.

No *BSD?

The build quality is excellent in my experience. I can justify spending more if it lasts and my previous MBP made it a decade!

“to make sure they’re working”

A boss’ job is not to babysit. Keep the higher ups off the team’s backs, run the management infrastructure needed for stuff like project planning, stuff like that. I am not at my desk for my whole work day. However not once has anyone been less than very pleased with my output. More time at my desk would not mean more work - it would mean less. The recharge time I take means that I almost universally have a good attitude at work and I’m good at untangling problems that others either can’t deal with or are avoiding dealing with.

Forcing presenteeism rather than a results-based approach is utterly idiotic.

Why does it have someone explaining the joke?

I think I was trying to suggest something about the duality of man, sir.

Mobile-first seems to be the future 🤢

I’m pushing 40 and I’ve never owned my own VCR. When I was at university a landline was thrown in with our internet connection but we didn’t have a use for it. Landlines have been irrelevant my entire adult life.