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scubbo
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And those who don't, bounce off the fact that it's not intuitive to follow someone from their user page.
Mastodon is not as complicated as it is sometimes made out to be, but it'a disingenuous to pretend that it's simple, either.
6 very much depends on interpretation. I think yours is overly negative - the net benefits are considerable! So much so that I picked 4&6 even before I noticed that 4 averts 6's issue.
"I'm A Believer" was originally by The Monkees - and both it and All Star are still great songs!
"not how you play cricket"
I (native UK English speaker)'ve only ever heard it with "cricket" in an adjectival form. As in "that's just not cricket".
I wish! Nah, I went to the Discworld Convention when I was 8 or so, and met him at one of the book-signing events, where he noticed my namebadge. Though even in the few minutes that I spent chatting with him there, he was very obviously a warm, kind, generous man. GNU Terry Pratchett.
Fun fact - my childhood nickname (and online handle) was used (with permission) by the great man himself! (As the name of a hearty military soup :P )
Typo sort-of accurate? :P
it already is though
I never said that this wasn't the case on Lemmy. I was just refuting the claim that identity is irrelevant in a Reddit-like discussion forum.
The way Reddit works is that you care about the content, not the people posting it.
That's mostly true, but not entirely. The OP of a thread should be a distinguished role, since their updates have significance in things like AMAs. It would also be good to highlight situations where a different person has joined a reply chain - if you have been having a 1:1 back-and-forth, and you see a new reply in that context, it's easy to assume it's coming from the same - an assumption that might make you incorrectly reference prior claims in the conversation as if they were made by that person.
RIF did the former, but not the latter (AFAIK).
The way Reddit works is that you care about the content, not the people posting it.
That's mostly true, but not entirely. The OP of a thread should be a distinguished role, since their updates have significance in things like AMAs. It would also be good to highlight situations where a different person has joined a reply chain - if you have been having a 1:1 back-and-forth, and you see a new reply in that context, it's easy to assume it's coming from the same - an assumption that might make you incorrectly reference prior claims in the conversation as if they were made by that person.
RIF did the former, but not the latter (AFAIK).
When it was invented, it was complex and annoying, even by today's standards.