You’ll probably need to wait a bit for those, or else start one.
People were willing to write that kind of stuff on Reddit because they knew people would see it. Possibility of attention incentivizes people to put the work in.
Here…not so much. Less incentive to put effort into big text posts without more people. Lemmy’s less than perfect sorting for Hot or Active is helping much either.
That’s kind of how Reddit was at first, too. All of this will take shape eventually it’s just not here quite yet.
I’ll get more basic than everyone else here:
Unless the human brain collectively evolves in a very short period to function differently than it has since we first started throwing shit at other hominids, no. We, collectively, as a society, can aspire to be better than our animal nature but that hardware is still there and it will never, ever, stop pushing people to tribalism, selfishness, and aggression.
We can’t fix us. We can only do the best with what we have and keep moving.
empty hot button issues
Agree for the most part but this here is also part of the issue. What one considers an “empty hot button topic” tends to be based on what directly affects them. I’ve routinely seen people on both sides use this exact same label to dismiss things like LGBT rights or abortion access. To the individuals that actually suffer, those are not “empty hot button topics”.
Like I very distinctly remember a time when the debate around gay marriage was called a distraction from Iraq. It was a frequent applause line in many, many straight cis comedian’s sets. It may have been convenient in that way, but to the LGBT community, it was real oppression and a real fight for equality. It also wasn’t some facade that was being put on by the right, they were genuine about it. That fight needed to be fought at the same time as the fight to end the war in Iraq, or the recession, or any of the “bigger” issues of the 2000s.
Two: blocking pasting is probably because password managers and operating systems must be secure when it comes to the clipboard, and clipboard management. Because if that’s not safe, your passwords you are copying and pasting are not safe.
Yes, but it’s not their clipboard, it’s not their browser, it’s not their operating system, why are they breaking basic functionality when my password isn’t their responsibility until I have entered it into their field and sent it to them?
This is the nannying bullshit I can’t stand. They made their shit more difficult to use, not to protect our private information on their servers or saved in their software, but solely because they’re concerned about how I’m using the clipboard on my own device.
After the stability issues with Lemmy were addressed (and they have been, for the most part…) the next thing that needed a revamp was content aggregation. It’s too stale. It’s no wonder they’re pilling on to address it.
IIRC it took quite a while for Reddit to find an algorithm that worked, and it constantly needs tweaking. It will here, as well.
I’d like to point out what just happened to !android@lemmy.world.
It was closed and migrated to another instance explicitly to keep things from being “spread out”.
It also happens that the instance it was moved to has extremely overbearing moderation that effectively prevents actual discussion. It’s so “curated” that everything is segregated into hyper specific feeds, everything except “official” news is removed, and no one is contributing because of the overbearing rules (no questions, no memes, no “rants” i.e. don’t make opinion posts).
It’s controlled by the “experienced” moderation team from /r/Android, that subreddit that would get like one or two posts a day that weren’t removed. It was strangled. We are supposed to defer to it this “experienced” team, hence why the lemmy.world instance has been locked. Now that instance sits pretty as having thousands of subscribers, and that will hurt the growth of smaller android groups because people gravitate towards the biggest ones and the second biggest one on lemmy.world is locked.
In essence, forced centralization. This is exactly what federation was supposed to prevent. Subverted in less than a two weeks since those communities formed.
That Edge is now the only “approved” browser anyone is allowed to use, per our admin (taking input from a third party security consultant). Most people in other departments don’t care, they use whatever gets put in front of them because their needs are basic and their tolerance for bullshit too high for their own good. The rest of us in IT (most of us) hate it.
I had to go uninstall Chrome and even a few Firefox installations, manually, from any workstation that had them. And I’ve never felt dirtier in my job. Like everytime I punched in my credentials to authorize the uninstall, Microsoft’s stock rose by the smallest amount.
Legitimately, the more of a Microsoft 365/Azure/Endpoint/Entra/Shithole/Power BI/SharePoint clusterfuck my workstation becomes, the less enthused I am about the entire IT profession.