Gullible

Gullible , 11 months ago to showerthoughts in The main difference I've noted so far between lemming and Reddit is that in lemming people seem to know when to write it's or its.

I like never reading “should of”, as well. Every browser and phone’s autocorrect aggressively suggests a correction to “have.” Sometimes you don’t notice an apostrophe appearing in the middle of a word, so I can forgive “it’s,” but there’s little excuse for fighting with autocorrect to write “should of.”

Gullible , 11 months ago to childfree in Why are there no "adults only" places anymore?

2 hour wait>20 minute wait. Unless the owner gets upset, the kids stay.

Gullible , 11 months ago to youshouldknow in YSK: You should dry off beef before cooking. Doing so promotes the Maillard Reaction, which will make the meat taste and look better.

Paper towels or constant air flow over a few minutes. Usually paper towels.

Gullible , 11 months ago to showerthoughts in The "just google it" mantra has probably held back quite a lot of interesting conversations and debate

Tangential but I’m curious, when was it that you noticed every search engine was broken by SEO? I started to see signs 6 years ago, but they became undeniably unusable about 3 years ago for me.

Gullible , 11 months ago to nostupidquestions in How did Lemmy.world become more popular than Lemmy.ml?

I’m not sure whether the issues plaguing Reddit really apply to lemmy, even with a single instance being disproportionately larger than the others, which makes “Reddit 2.0” a bit less derogatory to me. Reddit’s moderator tools were severely lacking for the required output (federation helps diffuse communities, and lemmy doesn’t encourage bots to swarm in order to increase apparent user numbers for investor satisfaction), every big anti-hate decision required a media spectacle to precede it (admins here aren’t free speech absolutists with authoritarian hard-ons), and staff retention at Reddit is an odd loop of promotion into managerial obsolescence which severely increases overhead (irrelevant to lemmy). Reddit 2.0 wouldn’t be the worst thing in the world to me.

Gullible , 1 year ago to youshouldknow in YSK: You can see which instances your home instance is federated with and which they've defederated/blocked by going to "/instances"

Funny finding skinheads.social on that list there. Is federating automatic, requiring an opt-out to separate, or did an administrator see that name and go “yup, we want people to see skinhead content?”