I mean, satire is about highlighting truth through absurdity or irony. It’s really not satirical if it isn’t telling truth.

I mean, there’s a real difference between separating the art from the artist and separating the commodity from the producer. One is about enjoying or appreciating a work, while the other is about buying or funding it.

Capitalism looks to forcefully equate the two, and that’s really a more important discussion, but it’s not the same thing.

Lack of granular privacy / profile control

This has been covered. This is a content-sharing network. Emphasis on both sharing and network. This means things that are posted are, by design, sent across the network. It’s not a walled garden; it’s the antithesis of a walled garden.

The only way for your posts to be seen by people on other websites is for those posts to be sent to those other websites, openly.

Poor content discovery / lack of niche communities / limited diversity

This isn’t a Lemmy issue, but the fact that it keeps coming up again and again framed as one is telling of the giant misconception people have about the Fediverse in general, and “Lemmy” in particular.

Lemmy is not a website. Or a space. It’s a website engine. Complaining about the quality or variety of content “on Lemmy” is like complaining about the content “on WordPress”.

The content that is here is actually almost magically discoverable, because that content likely didn’t start where you are, and website search bars only search their own databases. This is as true of lemmy.dbzer0.com as it is of Google itself. That’s why webspiders exist, to bring the content of the internet into Google’s database.

Fragmentation across instances / duplication of communities

This is the nature of linking multiple different forum-based websites together. Some of them will have their own sub-forums for their own population to use that are similar to sub-forums on another website. Those two sub-forums may have similar, or even the same, name, but that doesn’t mean they should be treated as the same place by people outside of them.

The constant drive by people not using those sub-forums to consolidate said sub-forums, because of fucking aesthetics, is pretty directly disrespectful to the people using those sub-forums.

“Lemmy” is not a singular space. It’s a network of independent websites that have agreed to syndicate content. That means they are both in cooperation and competition with each other. Kicking and screaming that one or another should give up its own various cultures and nuances for the sake of some pan-fediverse whole is kind of a dick move.

It’s one thing if two websites just want to explicitly merge, but to just be like “why is there Burger King and McDonald’s on the same street? Everyone should just be in one burger joint!” is kinda entitled.

Bad User Experience (UX) / usability issues

Reddit users complaining that things are different isn’t really good evidence of bad UX. At least the NodeBB discussion is getting close to the fundamental issue, but everyone seems to want the solution to it to be to force websites running Lemmy servers to act as dumb nodes in someone else’s project. And you’re not going to get too many hobby site owners signing up for that.

The solution is to highlight the independence of Fediverse websites, but then you get everyone whining about how small it is, how hard it is to find things, blah blah blah.

Search and archive weak/incomplete

Search is actually pretty good, if you’re on a busy server. At least in my experience.

Archiving old content, though… That’s getting back into a whole “demand volunteers shoulder the responsibility for hosting other websites’ content indefinitely” thing.

Over-representation of particular content types (US-news, memes, agenda posts) and low content-quality

And we’re back to “users aren’t talking about what I want to hear”, which… K.

Not the government, not UCP voters, but Albertans.

Sorry, I lived too many years in Alberta to distinguish between how Alberta treats the rest of Canada, and how Albertans treat the rest of Canada. Y’all got a cultural problem out there, and I was subjected to it for the better part of a decade.

Demanding more of the rich is a sin under the church of capitalism.

Yes. Believe it or not, the coke and pepsi being made in Canada makes people feel significantly less pressure to boycott them. Believe it or not, this makes sense when you think about how most people make decisions and the factors involved in those decisions.

Being smug about it doesn’t change it.

Start work earlier

They’re visible on other fedi platforms, making it trivially easy for assholes to go looking for who downvoted them anyway. The illusion of safety is a dereliction of duty to users.

Also, downvotes exist to allow large social sites to give the illusion of moderation and user agency while ignoring their duty to actually manage their spaces. They’re not needed here, and their existence promotes excessively large and unmanageable communities where people shout into voids and engage with hostility rather than discuss topics with people. Their use and inclusion should be seriously reconsidered.

Weirdly enough, the American compulsion to try and annex us has deep roots, too. I’d guess equally deep.

You can’t argue with results! Nova Scotia is notoriously rich and prosperous, after all!

Is this something communities could opt out of? Not everyone wants their community flooded with comments from people replying to people who aren’t even community members.

Because the Israeli government has very effectively weaponized the holocaust against critics, and politicians are very sensitive to that kind of thing.

They should just be posting shit on their websites. We still have web browsers. We don’t need to be able to reply.

The NDP membership may be a coalition of different degrees of “left”, but the elected representatives are politicians, many of whom will do what they believe is best for their careers.

The NDP is just a political party. The membership, the politicians, and the execuitives are all separate parts with separate goals that often do not align. A significant paart of the last two groups only care about winning elections.

It’s also a win/win target for him. If the government did eliminated the TFW program, there’d be a wave of fear over wages and an endless stream of attacks funded by employers. If they didn’t, then there’s a bunch of brown people taking good ol’ Canadian jerbs!

Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power. - Benito Mussolini

It seems really weird that Canafian Tire bought the Zeller’s motto, but not the name or branding.

Where will the lowest price be the law?

Yeah. Weird the focus on Carney’s resume when BTW legislation has basically been #1 on every PM’s and Premiere’s speed dial foor 30 years now.

They started centralizing the baked goods production in the 90s, after Wendy’s bought them.

So, Ontario’s ready to share auto manufacturing, then? Aeroepace? Planning on decentralizing banking?