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  • Consensus doesn’t require everyone in the world to agree it just requires the majority to agree

    An overwhelming majority, yes. Do you a have a survey or study that demonstrates this?

    clearly the majority do otherwise the comment that it’s confusing would not have been made.

    This makes no sense. Anybody can make any comment. Just because I say a thing doesn’t mean that the majority agrees with me.








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    11 months ago

    One word: ergonomics.

    With Dvorak, the most commonly-used letters are on the home row. In fact, all of the vowels are on the home row.

    The most common letter in English is E, and QWERTY makes you reach for it. You know what IS on the home row? Fuckin’ semicolon! Can you even remember the last time you used a semicolon?

    I spend a lot of time at work sitting, so I’d rather have a comfortable chair than an uncomfortable chair. Same with my keyboard: I’d rather have a comfortable layout than an uncomfortable one. Less risk of repetitive strain injury, too.


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    Some people like vim the way it is. That’s why they haven’t re-invented it. If you want to use a more intuitive text editor, there are plenty available (such as nano or micro).They don’t need to turn vim into a clone of something that already exists.

    As for why it’s still the default… It’s the same reason why everybody uses QWERTY keyboards when Dvorak is clearly superior. People already know how to type with QWERTY and they don’t want to take the time to re-learn with a new layout, change their workflows, etc.

    It isn’t universal, though. Garuda Linux defaults to micro. The web dev boot camp I was in didn’t bring vim up at all! We only used nano! I think that was a disservice to the students, but the instructors must’ve thought that it would be too confusing.







  • If meta was to pull the plug on federation it wouldn’t kill ActivityPub, there would still be millions of us here.

    It’s not about pulling the plug. It’s about introducing proprietary features that break communication, forcing people off of an independent server and onto Threads.

    If most of your IRL friends are on Threads and your experience with them has gotten janky due to Meta fucking with the protocol, it’s going to be very difficult to not switch over to Threads.

    Oh, and good luck trying to get your friends to switch over to some indie server they’ve never heard of. If you can do that, then you should run for president.