I do this all the time. I see so many brainless, low-effort posts all over the internet that I don’t want to add to the pollution with anything I’m not confident is either informative or funny.

But I also want Lemmy to grow and thrive, so here I’ve been making more of an effort to try to finish and post even comments I’m not so certain about. I figure that has to be better for the site than contributing nothing at all.

Nixon died in 1994, so there’s that.

That would have made a lot more sense than what actually happened.

I don’t even want to imagine a world without associate editors.

Aha, thanks. I was confused because Horatio Nelson was an 18th-century British naval commander. I now learn that you’re talking about a dude called Horatio Nelson Jackson, whom I hadn’t previously heard of.

I’m not sure whether I’m misunderstanding the person you’re referring to, or misunderstanding the word “Vermonter”.

A drivers license is hard to get in Japan unless a rich bad driver is trying on the same day.

How does this work?

This is an appalling take. No, you should not allow an employer to treat you with disrespect. Normalising an abusive, exploitative model of employment where you have no choice but to “put up with shit” makes conditions worse for everyone.

You never wonder “why am I seeing this and how do I make it go away?”

I actually find myself wondering this a lot. Mastodon doesn’t allow people to add comments to things they’re reposting, so you’re left guessing as to why they elected to insert something from an unfamiliar account into your timeline.

Mastodon is also short on tools for discovering interesting new posts and accounts that aren’t already on your radar. In this regard I agree that it’s behind the times. Threads handles this much better, giving you a classic chronological feed of people you’re following plus an algorithmic feed that shows you things that are popular with people like you.

They’re not made-up words, they’re place names.

Octal refers to base eight. If we followed the convention it would be the eighth-final.

We always say “Zee Zee Top” - I think there’s a sort of unspoken acceptance that they’ve earnt it. But you sometimes hear people say “Jay-Zed”, normally as a bit of gentle mockery.

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I’ve found the Mastodon experience much more isolating than Twitter or Threads, because it intentionally does a lot less to help you find interesting posts and like-minded posters.

Brilliant! You’ve made one post findable!

The whole point of the Fediverse is that people can use whatever platform they like to get content from Mastodon, Lemmy etc.