This is incredibly reductive and makes us look like idiots who don't understand "intent".
I get it, fuck cars, but this is ridiculous and only serves to make us look like a joke
neatchee
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You used the term "NATO stan" and call my response a cliche? I could tell you were a .ml user without even looking at your account.
The irony is entertaining. Thanks for the laugh, tanky
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I think we have far more that we agree on in this conversation than we disagree on. We can get into the minutiae of specific UIs but that probably misses the point.
Where I agree with OP is on the first impression of the default Lemmy UI to users trying to migrate from big-corpo products
For better or worse, these folks have come to believe that "slick looking" = thoughtfully designed = featureful and advanced. And that "sterile/boring looking" = amateur UX design = complicated and difficult
We can't break that mentality in the general public by simply repeating over and over that they're wrong. It just doesn't work that way, sadly.
On my Mastodon server, we have the Elk frontend available and have it listed prominently right next to the sign-up/sign-in button as a "Twitter-friendly UI experience" (also on our About page). Then, we periodically throw up an announcement telling users that apps, Elk, etc don't provide all of the features available on the modified webUI/PWA, along with a list of what they're missing and how to learn more.
It's an "abopt, extend, extinguish" approach and it works. There's a reason corporate enshitification pioneered that strategy. We can use it too, but for good :)
If the goal of Lemmy - and specifically lemmy.world is to be a boutique, niche aggregator then fine. But that is explicitly NOT the goal. That may be what some users want but they are free to go form their own small servers and isolate as much as they want
I am not suggesting that every community needs to be growth-oriented. Small groups are great.
But they are also weak, and virtually incapable of creating and maintaining the systemic change required to protect themselves long term.
If the attitude is "let the capitalists take over everything else, I'm happy with my underground movement that struggles to survive" then that's honestly bordering on selfish. "I'm happy so I don't care about what happens to others. They can figure out how to find us and do what we do or get fucked" kind of energy. It's privileged in the extreme
The best way for small communities to thrive is through collective action. And in order for that to happen there need to be enough small communities to have any sort of influence as a collective. And in order for that to happen, there needs to be an entry-point into the collective that is accessible to newcomers.
That is what Lemmy - and especially lemmy.world - have positioned themselves to be. It's not dissimilar to Mastodon(.social)
Get ratiod and blocked, weirdo. Go try to impress someone else with your misuse of logical fallacy terminology. Some people might be convinced you're smart but probably only on hexbear lol.
Buh-bye, chief 👋
LMAO this chump thinks hexbear is a good example of...well, of anything, really.
Go circlejerk in your little group of isolationists if you want but please stop telling the rest of us about it. You sound like a weird voyeur
That's quite a novel way of saying "I don't know what enshitification is actually about, nor do I understand why broad adoption is critical for protecting the long-term existence of community maintained software". Kudos on your creativity!
Seriously though, "keeping good things small for the sake of keeping them free of interference by capitalist interests" is misguided. Quite the contrary, leaving a large audience on the table is a surefire way to guarantee that an opportunistic capitalist will capture that market and drive community maintained options into obscurity.
Damnit, copy paste failure. Fixed, thanks!
While there is no question that in modern times, both in the West and East, the term lolicon refers to a sexual attraction to underage girls, that's not how it started. This topic goes all the way back to the 70s and the shoujo manga scene which was initially dominated by women, and only later welcomed men.
As with most things in life, if you actually spend the time to look into it, these things are a lot more nuanced than you might think.
Once again displaying your ignorance.
Siscon is about having an infatuation with an idyllic image of your sister and having abnormal affection for them as a result.
It's about idolatry more than anything else.
Seriously. The sex fetish is weird. Please stop
When you believe that showing children that something exists is equivalent to propaganda, you are part of the problem.
God forbid someone have to tell their kids "sometimes men love other men", or "sometimes, people are born with a body and mind that don't agree with each other".
You are using the exact same arguments people have used to keep gay people, black people, and anyone else they hate from being represented in media forever
This is a ridiculously inaccurate statement. Characters have been going to church, or reading the Bible, or wearing a cross necklace, or any of a hundred other forms of displaying Christian identity in television, movies, and ALL other media since the rise of Christianity.
I'm not sure whether you're being intentionally misleading or just are blind to the reality you've been living in, but it's seriously worrying.
Seriously, reflect on yourself a bit. You sound really ignorant and hateful