But the advantage is that Lemmy allows Tor. 😅
For some of the really prolific posters, yes. But there are also lurkers like me.
I doubt anyone can recognize me when I comment or encounter a comment I made.
I’m order to prove you wrong, I am committed to remembering your username.
User tags make recognizing people a lot easier. I see tagged users a lot. Voyager even keeps a running total of how many times I have upvoted and downvoted particular users.
There’s one user I have at like -30, tagged as a Nazi apologist. And sure enough, every time I scroll past them, they’re commenting some weird BS.
I see all of the same names in like every thread here haha. I remember y’all too. I know you are all freaks
What happened to FlyingSquid
Look at it this way, in a small town people are more likely to be kind and offer higher quality information when asked. The same things can be said about lemmy.
I don’t know a lot of people in my small town and I don’t know you!
I have a feeling everyone knows who I am, and those who don’t haven’t blocked me yet.
it’s fine. I’m not going to apologize for my opinions because that’s somehow worse than defending unpopular opinions.
I’d rather be the person who owns their hill and dies for it than someone who runs from hill to hill because the group thinks it sucks.
At least people are keeping my mother’s name out of their damn mouth.
can’t wait for G.I. Jane 2
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I subscribed to her only fans page 😁
Also, blocking people you don’t like is far more effective.
Some people here have a really huge effect. Guys like Stamets, The Picard Maneuver, and MicroWave, I see their posts all the time.
Oh yea, MicroWave feels like a half-bot tbh, no offense. Like I never see this dude made a single comment, only post articles. No wonder why that username is so forgettable.
I’ve chatted with him before. I think he just likes posting.
Who are you and how did you get in my sandbox?
From my experience there is only one poster. They are very angry.
Also because it allows anyone to easily stalk all your comments for some reason. Creepy.
I wanna be stalked! Someone, start stalking me right now!
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Keep Punk alive boss man
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Hell yea brother
Would that make you fall in love with me too ?
Only if you share a deep-seated hatred for white supremacists!
that’s some hella good music you make
Aw thanks! I try my best!
Is that different than Reddit?
Nope. It’s just that would be the first thing I changed if I were making a reddit clone.
Some people actually use the tag feature so that they remember users when they see them again lol
Considering how new anonymity is for the human race, it amazes me how people treat it like a crucial element of life. Civilization mostly lacked it for thousands of years because almost everybody lived in villages or small towns - about half the people in the world still do.
You may not have been anonymous to the people in your immediate community, but you were largely anonymous to the people outside of it, which is something that has been systematically dismantled in various ways through history. Even things as basic as last names are there to make you visible to outsiders.
From Seeing Like a State, p59:
The invention of permanent, inherited patronyms was, after the administrative simplification of nature (for example, the forest) and space (for example, land tenure), the last step in establishing the necessary preconditions of modern statecraft. In almost every case it was a state project, designed to allow officials to identify, unambiguously, the majority of its citizens. When successful, it went far to create a legible people. 38 Tax and tithe rolls, property rolls, conscription lists, censuses, and property deeds recognized in law were inconceivable without some means of fixing an individual’s identity and linking him or her to a kin group. Campaigns to assign permanent patronyms have typically taken place, as one might expect, in the context of a state’s exertions to put its fiscal system on a sounder and more lucrative footing.
IMO the felt anonymity of Reddit, that comes from the fact that hardly anyone cares to remember your username and you don’t directly experience scrutiny, isn’t that useful. What really matters is the potential for someone to look over everything you’ve written (and if they have administrator access, connect that to IP, email, browser fingerprint etc.), and use that information for their own purposes, regardless of their having any connection to or legitimate personal interest in you. In that respect, Lemmy isn’t much better (it kind of can’t be when the premise is publicly posting writing to the internet), but it isn’t worse either.
Can I be the guy that’s known around town for pointing out that in the given context, it’s actually “fewer users”
And yeah yeah, I know about evolution of language and common usage, and all that crap. But it really does just boil down to the fact that fewer sounds more elegant when the object is plural. ie: “There are usually fewer unexpected costs associated with new home ownership”, vs “There is usually less unexpected cost associated with new home ownership” (Both are correct in their given context)
It’s about how language rolls off the tongue. If we lose that we might as well grunt at each other draw pictographs with our own feces.
/end of rant.
This specific case isn’t really to do with the evolution of language, more just ineffective linguistic prescriptivism. Some guy 200 years ago decided they didn’t like how “less” had been used for the past millennium so they made up a guideline for what the preferred (like what you just said) then people decided to treat that as an actual rule. Obviously it’s still common to use “less” that way even after a couple of centuries of people trying to enforce that rule, it’s a good demonstration of how prescriptivism is a waste of time.
Strangely enough, in my experience many prescriptivists who rely on etymological arguments are fine with language changing for this one rule. Makes me think they never really did care about historic usage of a word.
It’s actually about whether the object is countable.
Water -> less water Cups of water -> fewer cups of water
It bothers me a bit, too, but American English is definitely evolving to replace “fewer” with “less”.
