So, are you saying that your claim is conjecture? Or, perhaps, simply anecdotal?

libertarians aren’t a thing

[Libertarians] are republicans that are too embarrassed to identify as such publicly

Be careful to not make hasty generalizations.

To be fair, Libertardians also care about lowering the age of consent!

Based on what are you making this claim?

being libertarian is only marginally less embarrassing [than being a Republican] anyway

What about libertarianism is embarrassing to you?

Why does it seem that so many of those who claim that they’re libertarians are not actually libertarians?

• Artist: The Beatles
• Album: Revolver
• Song: Tomorrow Never Knows

Make it work, then make it better.

I really like this one. It’s borderline a mantra.

As a counter to perfectionism:

If it’s worth doing, then it’s worth doing poorly. [source: a reddit user]

Metaverse in my ass.

LibreOffice Draw?

I don’t have any fundamental issue with emojis when they’re used to expand meaning or provide clarity. Eg you could use an emotive emoji to show/clarify the intent/emotion of something. Imo, using emojis in this way is no different than the practice of adding a “/s” to denote sarcasm. When they get annoying is when they’re used superfluously; if they serve no purpose, then it’s just clutter.

I’m cringing at the date format “1-20-21”.

What exactly am I looking at? Is this just for visual aesthetic on the outside of a building, or is there some specific purpose served by this architecture?

They don’t quite look like balconies, and there’s a hole. Perhaps in the rightmost column I can see a part of a railing or a window through some of the holes?

EDIT: Just saw this post in my feed, which I think is showing the same architecture as this one. It appears to be for aesthetic purposes, but I could certainly be wrong.

That’s perfect!

Given that Lemmy’s mascot looks like a mouse (I think it’s technically a lemming), an idea that came to my mind was “cheese day”.

if you’re one of those who never liked using a cover now I bet you’re forced to use one because of the added vulnerability of the bump.

Laughs in case that still has a bump.

If you have the layout memorized, then what’s physically shown on the keys doesn’t really matter ­— usually switching the keyboard layout in the OS is pretty easy.

Scaled sort on subscribed.

Imo, it likely was/is due to the voting system — and, in a similar sense, awards. Redditors want to increase their Karma scores and seem to, at least subconsciously, view it as clout. So, they’ll create posts with the intent of farming these points — ie they post things that they know will get a specific response from the masses. What also doesn’t help, and is something that Lemmy similarly suffers from, is that there generally is no established consensus on how votes should be used. An upvote could mean agreement, or that a post is funny, or that it’s good quality, or that it’s on topic for a community, etc. A downvote could mean that the person disagrees with the post, or that they think that it isn’t relevant or they simply don’t like the OP. In reality, all that votes do, at the fundamental level, is tell the algorithm where it should place posts (a personalized recommendation algorithm changes this a bit, but the effect is essentially the same) — a post with a large upvote to downvote to ratio gets shown higher up and, by extension, more than one with a smaller ratio. This creates a sort of feedback loop where the posts that get farmed for upvotes get shown more. People don’t want their post to be buried, so they’ll only post what they think will get upvotes. And since upvotes are usually used for things that illicit an “agreement” response, only posts that people agree with will be shown.

The solution to these issues, imo, is to create an obvious standard for how votes are used and change how they’re interpreted by the algorithm. Imo, Facebook was on the right track with how they were using emojis as the voting method. People generally react to posts with emotion, and an emoji is a good representation of that. You could potentially still have an up/down form of vote (alongside the emotional voting options), but it would be standardized to only be used as a metric for relevance/importance/correctness. This could be enforced by moderation, if votes were publicly viewable, by allowing moderators to remove people that are vote brigading (not including emotional votes). Emotional votes probably shouldn’t be considered by the algorithm so that emotional bias can be avoided. Or, at the very least, there should be different algorithms that take these voting types into account I’m different ways (eg if you only want funny posts, you could sort to primarily get posts with a laughing reaction). In addition to this, also removing the gamification aspect (not showing (at least not publicly) total scores on profiles).

The only reason I still have a Facebook account is because of marketplace. I wonder how feasible it’d be to run some form of decentralized alternative to Facebook marketplace.