Wandering Adventure Party

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.

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.

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.

'Tis a bit of a thorn in one’s side, aye.

Is this something communities could opt out of? Not everyone wants their community flooded with comments from people replying to people who aren’t even community members.

Way less weird than Venus. Poor Venus, nobody ever notices its quirks.

Bingo. Grades were ok? No scrutiny for you whatsoever. The fact that you’re being physicallly and emotionally abused by your peers to the point of being afraid to say more than 3 words to them, or anybody else, because you don’t kbow how to interact with them is not a concern.

You only get help, or even just context, if you’re causing problems for the adults.

They haven’t really been Canadian since Wendy’s bought them in 1995. That brief period of being publically traded notwithstanding.

PREMIUM!

Also, the nice colours, and the plots that are actually internally consistent and flow logically. And the characters that aren’t all brooding, narcissistic assholes.

If you don’t have a 649.2.2 Atmos setup, that’s your fault. Get hearing loss, scrub!

/s because… sigh…

A diagnosis just makes it slightly more awkward to call kids names or tell them they’re doing it wrong.

They liked calling kids names.

Or maybe we can just improve society a little bit, rather than advocate for eugenics. For once.

Nah. This is the sort of thing you get when different features are owned by different dev teams.

Didn’t spend all of their time arguing about idological purity online and actually pushed to achieve their agenda.

When the wacko who thinks Autism makes you less than human is in control of the department of health and is openly making lists of people with diagnoses, maybe it’s more than “just a label”.

It’s also a target.

Nah. I fear uncertainty. I am 100% certain there’s going to be some social norm I don’t know and that everyone around me just groks.

Yup. This is purposeful mischaracterization from one of the biggest boosters of games-as-a-streaming-product. Ubisoft doesn’t want you to have the ability to play things at your whim, but exclusively at theirs. They sure as fuck don’t want you spending your time on something they sold you 10 years ago.