To be honest, I don't even know what instance I'm looking at most of the time. My app doesn't show the instance name, only the community name, and the community names are often all identical across instances.
soyagi
I wasn't talking about markdown language. I was talking about the end user experience. In my email client for example, I can write a single line break and it is formatted as such. The end user shouldn't have to know/worry/care about the underlying technology; the technology should work to meet their needs.
Thank you for the explanation. Good to know single line breaks are possible. However, other web services allow the user to use a single line break and it's displayed in the same way. While you give a good technical reason why it is this way, I'm not convinced it's the most user friendly approach.
It could be added in the community info, just under the name of the community.
For example:
Jerboa
Created two years ago
Just to put this into context for some people:
The UK’s biggest energy supplier reported profits of £969m for the first six months of 2023, up nearly 900% from £98m in the same period last year.
Profits up nearly 900%. Fucking disgusting.
There’s an obvious critique of all of this, and that’s that it comes from a place of privilege. I can go to the rose garden, or stare into trees all day, because I have a teaching job that only requires me to be somewhere two days a week, not to mention a whole set of other privileges. Part of the reason my dad could take that time off was that on some level, he had enough reason to think he could get another job. It’s possible to understand the practice of doing nothing solely as a self-indulgent luxury, the equivalent of taking a mental health day if you’re lucky enough to work at a place that has those.
This paragraph stood out to me. It's so hard for most people to "do nothing" even if they really wanted to, and would potentially be the people that would benefit from it the most.
Whoops, my math was off there. You're right.
Funny you should mention teachers but a very recent report says that a quarter of teachers have had allegations made against them, and 10% have been subjected to a formal disciplinary process during their career. Source: https://www.tes.com/magazine/news/general/teacher-allegations-parents-pupils
There's no uproar because the majority of allegations are just that. Allegations. While I have no doubt there are bad people in all walks of life, I do not believe most allegations hold weight. In both policing and teaching there is a power balance that works to and against each party's advantage. Making allegations against a person in a position of power is a strong weapon (though, yes, on the flip side, taking advantage of being in a position of power is also something people can do).
Does not say how she died and 56 is not very old and then there is her son… Yeah, I think quite a few of us are thinking along the same lines there :/
The cause of death hasn't been given, though considering what we know about them, many of us are probably thinking the same :/
I posted about this here hours ago.