Hyperbole and other superlatives are very common forms of lying, because “everyone” knows that it isn’t literally true, so if you call it out you look like a pedant, but it still has a greater emotional impact than an honest representation of the situation, so it’s a lie that gives the desired outcome of painting your picture without the risk of reputational damage if you are caught in the lie

The price of housing

Data privacy isn’t to protect you from getting caught doing wrong things, it’s to prevent malicious actors from having the information to manipulate you. You don’t want phishers to have access to your life details that security questions ask about, even if each one is nothing to hide. You don’t want scammers to know where you went to school, who your teachers were, and what clubs you were in to build up a convincing backstory for their facade. You don’t want someone who wants to get something out of you to know who is important to you and threaten or impersonate them. It’s not about having something to hide, it’s about hiding personal details from those with malicious intent

I think your final statement is backwards. The world was car-free not very long ago in the grand scheme of things. We’ve never been fully vegan. I agree we should eat fewer animal products as well as driving less, but just because it was easier for you doesn’t mean it’ll be easier for society at large.

Does that make French PHP?

Based on a quick google search there is: https://www.frozenark.org

Cosplay is one example. There’s a handful of NSFW ‘cosplay’ communities, one not-very-active one on blahaj, and one squatted on .world by a user who is also squatting a whole bunch of clearly NSFW communities and has never posted or commented anything anywhere, and named themselves “@Moderator.” Laser cutting, Inkscape, some book fandoms are examples I was (and to some extent am) actively engaged with on Reddit where communities exist, but are far from a critical mass.

At a bare minimum it should be called ‘local subscribers’ to make that clear if there are technical reasons making a total number difficult

That’s one alternative that would allow people to request a community exists without just making an empty community, and leave it to people who want to participate and actively moderate to create them

I’m not saying there are no good reasons to make a community without posting, but when that’s all a user has ever done, and they’ve done it dozens of times, I have a hard time assuming they’re just trying to help the fediverse thrive.

One suggestion I saw was auto-deleting communities that are still empty after a week, incentivizing new mods to upload something, not just squat names that were popular subs in hopes of I guess having some sort of power if they pick up?

Or just have communities delete themselves if they are a week old and still don’t have any content. That would help a bit with the mod squatting I’ve seen where some account makes dozens of communities with names of popular subs but hasn’t ever posted anything anywhere

Lurkers are fine, but they shouldn’t be making communities. If you make a community you owe it at least a post or two to not be empty

Honestly no, I was mostly subscribed to smaller subs, and only the general communities here really have a critical mass. I’m definitely interacting more with general communities, but I really miss communities around niche interests.

I have hope that they will be here with time, but for now there’s a bunch of empty communities with no posts and a mod who has never posted anything anywhere, just made a few dozen communities with the names of popular subreddits, and even many the communities that aren’t in that situation have 3-4 posts and a couple dozen subscribers

Currently apricots

Usually because it was the result of part of the contract when they took the job. “Golden parachute if we ever fire you” is a reward for joining the company, it isn’t decided when they are fired.

Site-wide karma is easy to game and not particularly informative. Community karma can be a good measure of how involved an account is in a specific community

The biggest problem with this is subjective metrics.

“Healthy” depends a lot on both what your needs are and the rest of your diet, there’s no one-size-fits-all.

“Delicious” is even more subjective.

‘Cheap’ at least is fairly objective, but even so different qualities, different locations, or different seasons can change prices drastically, and that’s before you get into the fact that what really matters is the more-subjective ‘cheap to someone of your means.’

I personally feel like community karma is a useful metric for quickly evaluating someone’s presence in a specific community. Site-wide karma is far too easily-gamble to be a useful metric, though, and whether you had a post go crazy on a big sub means nothing in evaluating whether you’re a good contributor to a small sub

Yeah, if the biggest thing we have to talk about here is how we’re glad we aren’t there, it’s never going to grow into its own thing. I don’t want to be part of a ‘we hate reddit’ club, I want to be part of a ‘cool things on the internet’ club