Correct use of the imperative has been largely lost from public discourse.
That's taken rather seriously on Beehaw, but we of course have no control over what happens on other instances.
I think the issue is people just want a drop-in Reddit replacement via Lemmy, which is easily enough done to a certain degree on other instances. Having control over your Web presence takes effort. Choosing not to put that effort in is a personal decision.
It is kinda funny the shortcuts our brains can take. I started using that system because of an issue with using 12-hour time ... I was outside Seattle and it was the dead of winter. I woke up at 6:45, panicked about being hours late for work, showered, then realized it was 06.45, not 18.45. From there, starting with the most significant figure and decrementing was a logical rabbit hole.
No one wants to shower because of ambiguity.
We choose our levels of anonymity. You responded to Chris, who uses his full name as a handle, and I'm responding to you as literally the only person in the world with my name. ID verification is an unnecessarily onerous requirement that just adds more PII to the insatiable maws of tech firms.
You can self-select being open about your identity, and that seems a good middle ground. Facebook has had a real-name requirement for quite some time, and it didn't exactly settle into civil discourse as a result of that policy change.
Great video, as always. I would suggest PocketTube for Firefox for controlling the chaos of YouTube subscriptions. I don't see shorts at all, and if I'm not looking for, say, music or Star Trek content, I can just turn those categories off.
I'm just seeing this for the first time, and I can't really disagree with his data
Spaceballs: The Comment Thread
I use ISO 8601 format on my devices (truncating the century) to avoid ambiguity. Today is 25.02.21.
One of the easiest things to do to avoid this is selecting communities and sticking with "subscribed." Despite the federated nature of Lemmy, I just hang out on Beehaw, because it's predictably not going to irritate me.
Why don't they just concentrate the camps?
The irony that my van is actually appreciating.
It is. The question is whether anyone would enforce it.