They only have a problem with the ‘walking around armed might provoke law enforcement to shoot you, so don’t do it’ narrative.

They don’t like telling people not to carry guns. That’s all.

Erm, you can soil yourself in panic and excuse yourself to the bathroom. Works every single time.

Only during COVID…

For me it is ‘someoe using Excel (at all)’.

Seeing people bragging about cool ‘apps’ and ‘databases’ they created in their department only to find out it is Excel. Oh the pain…

Is there a Lemmy version of r/woosh?

Haha, okay but that’s more like Darth Vader.

Maybe we won’t, cancelling midterms is Trumps new favorite topic.

Oh, they came pretty close already - almost killing a baby: https://newrepublic.com/post/205376/ice-attack-car-kids-six-month-old-unconscious

The syntax is a little weird IMHO. I can’t help but read it as ‘NOT code_review@programming.dev’ …

My bet is we’ll be seeing ICE shooting children first. And some more of children shooting siblings. School shootings are a given, anyway.

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It is shaping up very nicely! One more nitpick: cloud that button say something like ‘Join Lemmy (instance name)’?

So that any fool understands what it does. Join instance name has the potential to confuse some people, because they don’t know what joining instance name means - especially if some instance is chosen which name is more on the cryptic site.

But anyway, very nice!

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Ok so I think it would be best to have two ways: One really completely foolproof way, where the user does not need to know a single thing about the technologies involved. 0 upfront homework for the user.

And then a second way for users willing to take the time to do a ‘manual setup’.

I created an AI slop clickable mockup real quick as it’s easier to bring the idea across than describing it with lots of words. This only covers the foolproof way.

https://jsfiddle.net/da9m4nuq/

The main idea being to remove all possible friction for users who are the opposite of tech savvy - which imo are the absolute majority of all users.

The tricky part is preselecting a server for them. This will probably need a more or less manually curated list of servers which most people will be okay with - so no extreme opinions, not technical, big enough so they don’t seem empty on first sight. Done in such a way that the people get more or less equally distributed, so we don’t create one centralized instance.

But I think it is crucial to remove any friction for the users. Don’t let them do homework before they even know what Lemmy is and if it’s worth it at all.

Please learn how to use the shell, everyone wins. Learning how to use the shell will enable you to do all kinds of things. Learning how to use some Gui will help you in that one instance, until that dev decides that it needs to be made better and prettier and you start looking for shit again

Take my upvote, you are right on the money.

No, the attacking of Greenland could cause a war not the act of defending it.

There is more to a war than the difference in military strength.

Well, you are technically correct. That would’ve made it easier for me. But I see a few problems with that:

How are you gonna make sure people start doing this?

And even more important: If people start doing this, it might actually harm the network IMHO.

I personally knew that something like Lemmy exists at all because I saw multiple people on Reddit recommending it as an alternative to Reddit. Often enough that I was able to remember this after some time.

Now if people recommended programming.dev in one sub, literature.cafe in another and discuss.online in a third - there is no way I would’ve remembered any of it and most likely wouldn’t know that it belongs to the same network. Looking at them individually emphasizes the feeling that those are some ultra niche little sites with hardly any users on them.

Just my gut feeling, anyway.

Is it so hard to admit that you misunderstood the comment ffs? It is painfully obvious to everyone.

Neat.