I do this all the time. I see so many brainless, low-effort posts all over the internet that I don’t want to add to the pollution with anything I’m not confident is either informative or funny.

But I also want Lemmy to grow and thrive, so here I’ve been making more of an effort to try to finish and post even comments I’m not so certain about. I figure that has to be better for the site than contributing nothing at all.

In the early days they did satirise current issues, but it mostly seemed to be through a lens of 31st-century technology or social conventions. Nowadays, the future setting often just feels like window dressing for a story that’s really entirely about the present.

I came here to post exactly this. IIRC Matthew Smith said his playtesting rule was that, as long as he could successfully complete a room once, no matter how many attempts it took, it went in. Hardly surprising that doing the whole thing, even with infinite lives, was far beyond my eight-year-old self.

That would have made a lot more sense than what actually happened.

I don’t even want to imagine a world without associate editors.

Aha, thanks. I was confused because Horatio Nelson was an 18th-century British naval commander. I now learn that you’re talking about a dude called Horatio Nelson Jackson, whom I hadn’t previously heard of.

I’m not sure whether I’m misunderstanding the person you’re referring to, or misunderstanding the word “Vermonter”.

A drivers license is hard to get in Japan unless a rich bad driver is trying on the same day.

How does this work?

1. Nobody
2. Will
3. Pay
4. Them
5. To
6. Do
7. Proper
8. Journalism
9. Any
10. More

This is an appalling take. No, you should not allow an employer to treat you with disrespect. Normalising an abusive, exploitative model of employment where you have no choice but to “put up with shit” makes conditions worse for everyone.

You never wonder “why am I seeing this and how do I make it go away?”

I actually find myself wondering this a lot. Mastodon doesn’t allow people to add comments to things they’re reposting, so you’re left guessing as to why they elected to insert something from an unfamiliar account into your timeline.

Mastodon is also short on tools for discovering interesting new posts and accounts that aren’t already on your radar. In this regard I agree that it’s behind the times. Threads handles this much better, giving you a classic chronological feed of people you’re following plus an algorithmic feed that shows you things that are popular with people like you.