Fireflies/Lightning bugs. I remember there were so many in backyards in the summer, even in the suburbs.

Then they just kinda went away. Feel like I’m lucky if I even see a few a year.

I updated my mid-2014 MBP to Sonoma using OCLP last month from stock Big Sur. And then last week or the week before, Apple pushed Sonoma 14.4. OCLP also had updates related to 14.4, so I did both.

I had no issues, on either upgrade. No more issues than what the OCLP devs already know about, which to me are minor.

This MBP is certainly a little sluggish with Sonoma. But the 14.4 update didn’t make it any worse (or better). Honestly though, it was already sluggish for me on stock Big Sur (the last official version for this machine). Stock Catalina was the last version that ran very well for me. At this point, I’m only using this MBP mainly for web browsing and some basic productivity. I have my M3 Pro MBP and Windows gaming machine for more serious/taxing stuff.

Anyway, I had no issues with the latest update. tunetardis’ suggestion, if you’re worried, makes sense, too.

Not a technical thing, but…

Better user interactions. I know not everyone came from reddit, but there are so many reddit-like interactions across Lemmy. I’m talking about not assuming good faith and jumping down people’s throats. Low-effort comments (I’m guilty of this, too). The need to always be right and continue arguing for no reason.

It was tiring to see this on reddit over the years. But it’s sad to see how much of that behavior has made its way to Lemmy.

With federation, however, there’s not really a good way to solve this, since each instance, including self-hosted instances, determines their own moderation and “culture.” But it would be something I’d like to see improved, even i we each have to do it ourselves.

On the technical side, absolutely mod tools. It’s stunning how bad they are here. And I’m coming from reddit, where tools were poor.