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Subscribed - Hot is my default

All - Hot is my alternate if I’m seeing the same recentish posts too much

All - New if I’m looking around for new communities to subscribe to

Top doesn’t do anything for me because needing to narrow down by time frame is too many steps, although I didn’t check to see if there is a setting tonchange the default

I’m all for people discussing anything they like. But if you’re just wondering how many ancient world wonders there are, maybe have a look at the Wikipedia article first.

El oh el

When asking about the Beatles, are they asking about those still living or all of the founding members? Sice many bands have changed members over time, could they be asking about the time in the band or their age in years?

Suse, this was easy for the Beatles since they had a single lineup and are popular enough that all of that is easy to find. But it is a good example of a simple question that could be asking different things based on context and even if they get an answer it isn’t necessarily what they are looking for, but they didn’t know how to ask. Follow up questions are possible when interacting with others who may point out missing context, but not for search engines.

Also, kind of funny that you are an instance with ‘discuss’ in the name and you are opposed to discussion about easy to search things.

Maybe they read the documentation and the documentation doesn’t clearly answer their question.

You can always just ignore their question if you don’t want to answer. Let someone else do it.

For the last decade, the vast majority of helpful results for obscure things has been reddit posts of users asking the exact same question. Usually the person answering knows some context that the person asking isn’t aware of needing to include in their question, which is why they couldn’t find it on their own. Heck, a lot of the time I was missing the same piece of information!

Without someone answering the ‘easy’ question, there wouldn’t have been any results that were clear answers to those questions.

I haven’t noticed any of it in my feed before that - so I guess they don’t push it on users and it’s optional somewhere out of the way

That’s a bold assumption.

My absolute favorite videos for car repairs were some shade tree mechanics who just recorded what they were doing and talking through the steps. No fancy lighting setups, no separate camera person. Just explaining and sharing knowledge for something that I couldn’t figure out by reading words because the written word was just ‘lightly hammer’ and they showed the angles and explained where the parts were frequently getting caught.

You are a hero.

This. Searching Google still nets valid first page results most of the time.

How was the ten year sleep you apparently just woke up from?

Doing the lord’s work.

“Just make shit up” is basically saying the same thing.

Go duck yourself!

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10 million comments by 40k or so active daily users seems incredibly high.

I am thinking it is probably comments and not posts as well.

Turkey day travel and spending time with family by prolific posters is likely.

They’re not saying who is it isn’t trans to gatekeep, they’re presenting the idea that some people might be less confused and make different life choices if more people tolerated traditionally-gendered subjects (like clothing and makeup) from anyone without judgement

When an identity seems to be defined by appearance/presentation to those who don’t understand it personally, assuming the identity would occur less frequently if social norms were less restrictive does make sense. Like personally I don’t think drag would be a thing if it wasn’t a bit of a response to gender norms. I mean even if society didn’t care about which gender wears which clothes some guys would get dolled up and even do essentially the same performative thing because some people just love to perform, but it wouldn’t be the same thing that drag is now and it wouldn’t be controversial to bigots. I mean women wearing pants was a huge fucking deal for no real reason and nobody really cares anymore.

But using clothing choices as a reason someone might be trans misses the point that a lot of trans people wore jeans and t shirts before and after transitioning because there is far more to it than the superficial appearance of clothing choice.

Requiring the app to be opened to sync would be annoying for someone who only uses the one app and just wants it to update in the background. Unless the two apps communicate with each other to sort out a priority, there isn’t a way to determine which one counts from the app side.

it feels like FOSS alternatives would be 20 years in the future if put worked together on 2-3 alternatives instead of 20-30 disparate projects.

Honestly having 20-30 separate projects is awesome if merging in the creative bits from each were merged into the more popular ones more often. Sometimes there is a foundational difference that makes that a lot harder than plug and play, but to be honest not developing with being modular in mind is one of the biggest issues with any kind of development.

Offline mode will need a robust handling of replies and comments for content that has been deleted or removed if you want the user to be aware, especially if they have multiple comments on deleted posts when they reconnect.

That would actually be easier than the offline upvote feature. The issue with offline interactions is if you upvote in one app, but downvote on another, who wins?

Whichever interaction is sent ‘last’ when connected. No, the user would not have any control over this in the example situation,but to be honest it is a pretty minor issue with no real solution. The same thing could happen in an arbitrary order if you clicked different options on two different browsers at approximately the same point in time because web calls are not instantaneous.