I’m not the original commenter, but I have a similar experience.

I come to places like Reddit/Lemmy/Mastodon/Twitter to see other views and ideas. Lemmy doesn’t have that - at least for Canadian politics, commenters tend to voice opinions compatible with the current government. Lemmy has an extremely narrow Overton window.

A great example is discussion on Canadian party leaders - when links are posted about the leader of the opposition, commenters generally agree he’s a jerk, totally regressive, and doesn’t have much policy to offer. When links are posted about the prime minister, the consensus is that, as lousy as he is, the leader of the opposition is worse. I agree, but it’s basically the same conversation each time.

The conversation goes roughly the same way when policy issues come up. Posts about the housing crisis inevitably have a comment saying we just need more density or better transit; that Conservative premiers are terrible; etc. These things are true (enough), but there’s not much more than that. Posts about election interference are filled with comments saying US companies are at least as bad as state actors, etc. It’s just a lot of the same.

Generally speaking, I agree with a lot of the points. But I’m not here for that. I’m not interested in reading a comment I disagree with that forces me to think.

tl;dr: the Canadian Lemmy consensus has a tinsy Overton window, and that’s boring.

Fuck Grazer. All my homies love Chunk.

Agreed. If Fitbit has smart watches that do roughly what WearOS does, with 5x the battery life at half the cost, WearOS will be hard to sell.

I think they are referring to licensing fees from watch manufacturers.

Newer watches in the Versa line can’t install third party apps, even though earlier models can.

Google has been removing features from the fancier Fitbit lines to push people towards their smartwatch. There weren’t many good third party apps, so it isn’t a major loss, bit it’s annoying.

It sounds like the interviewer has unrealistic expectations. Which isn’t surprising: they put a fair amount of their life into the product, and (to them) the hiring process is taking dozens of hours. So, if they have no empathy, I can see how they would want that.

It’s unrealistic to expect candidates to invest significant time and money into a job they are statistically unlikely to get.

You’re a wizard, Fedizen!

No. Computers are hard. Especially if they aren’t built for you.

More content. More diverse content. And more diverse users.

There really isn’t a lot of posts. A significant portion of posts are from bots. Similarly, there aren’t many comments.

It feels like most content is doomer news, politics, Linux, Star Trek, programming, or gaming related. And that’s my jam. But it gets old after a while.

And of course it would help to have more diverse users. I know we aren’t all the same, but Lemmy has a lot of software developers and left leaning folks with post secondary degrees.

Butter.

but what if there’s a newt from california that is smooth?

does not cause gonorrhea

not known to cause gonorrhea

Only the LLMs know.

I feel like the revolution could go in any direction at this point.

I play Fortnite cross platform with Switch and PC. The Lego mod is open world. I’m not sure it’s playable on Linux.

the porn must flow

And there have been a tonne of revolutions in Europe over the past fifty years.

It’s almost as if guns and revolutions are unrelated.

The word arafed will enter the common lexicon.

I hadn’t given [the scammer] the last four digits of my card.

Wait a sec.

He hadn’t asked for the last four digits. He’d asked for the last seven digits. At the time, I’d found that very frustrating, but now – “The first nine digits are the same for every card you issue, right?” I asked the VP.

I’d given him my entire card number.

Huh. I hadn’t realized the institution prefix was so long.