I follow both, but a lot more people/organizations than hashtags.

Bill Gates has a list of favorite books. Ronald Reagan watched Back to the Future.

I found that on old forums I did get to know the people regularly posting on them quite well over time (and they got to know me). On reddit and lemmy not so much, or do you have any idea about anything I’ve posted before (because I don’t know anything about you).

The main thing I would like to know is why so many people nowadays want a microblog platform, whether it is X or Bluesky or Mastodon, and why community-based platforms like Lemmy are getting relatively little attention in comparison.

Is it just that these people weren’t seriously online before the rise of microblogs? They didn’t start out with phpBB-style forums, so don’t miss their existence and think that individuals having followers is the normal state of the Internet? I’m genuinely not super sure what’s going on.

Wait, what? Which parts of this are satire now? I read the Onion piece that Global Tetrahedron was purchasing InfoWars, but this is a Guardian story saying The Onion is purchasing it? I’m a bit confused.

Yes, semiautomatic are what you should use most of the time really.

In the 2000s I thought that due to more and more people being on the internet, stories like this would be very common in the future, not just for the government, but private entities too.

In reality: Most things that happen at most workplaces are not interesting enough to leak, and most people do not want to risk their careers for something like this. So it’s still relatively rare.

the automatic setting might give you 1/30 of a second when photographing fast moving animals or 1/500 with aperture 2.8 when photographing landscapes, neither of which will give you good photos :/

Aperture, shutter speed and ISO aren’t very hard to understand and applying them correctly will give you a lot better photos.

absolutely this, here in Austria most of our books are obviously written in German, so many of them have prices for Germany, Austria and sometimes Switzerland on them, but obviously not for other neighboring countries because the books for them are written in Italian, Slovak, etc.

I always find it funny when I read a lemmy thread that’s being posted in by microbloggers who just start all replies with @ followed by usernames of people they’re replying to.

no, I’m very certain I’ve never seen one, this article certainly doesn’t have one

you can sort !casualconversation@lemm.ee by “new comments”

Last decade it was “destroyed”

https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/01/21/these-are-a-few-more-of-my-least-favorite-things/ point 2

No, you can’t go to real court. You’re actually kinda getting at something more serious: This is true for all crimes. Especially also drug crimes. That is why the prohibition of drugs causes violent crime: the only way to enforce contracts over illegal drugs is through violence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Left-wing_organizations_in_the_United_States

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Progressive_organizations_in_the_United_States

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Left-wing_advocacy_groups_in_the_United_States

There’s a Wikipedia section here about one that is not ancient, but relevant to your question about multilingual states: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austro-Hungarian_Army#Linguistics_and_translations

I wrote “at least”.

I am older than OP, but not old enough to remember the 2000 election very much.

US presidential elections have been approximately this way since at least 2016, actually I think this one may have been less crazy than the last two.

I’ve been in online communities since shortly after my 10th birthday and this has never once been a problem.

Most of my friends when I was a teenager were people I met online. It was beyond a reasonable doubt good for me to be on the Internet during that time because it was the only place where I fit in, where I could be myself.

If I ever have kids, I hope they fit in better than I did offline, but if they don’t, there is no way I am going to prevent them from socializing in online communities.

At whatever age they want to.

holy shit why would you deprive kids of (often their only way to have any) social contacts and think you’re the good guys