Average users do not even remotely care about federated software and/or decentralisation. That is techno-babble to them and their eyes will glaze over if you try to market that to them.

That being said: Mastodon does a shit job at explaining how it works, how to use it, and what its advantages are. The Joinmastodon landing page just assumes you already know how a fair bit about instances work and what federated software is and does a very poor job explaining it. And even then, most users won’t care either way. They just want to click a Join button and be done.

the dimmer LG TV showed hot spots that the Sony didn’t, with its LEDs measuring a whopping 123° C (253.4° F) with the TV at max brightness

Holy shit. Literally designed to fail.

“Somebody That I Used to Know” by Gotye.

Was played seemingly every hour back when I worked retail. Both in the store I worked in and many others. So incredibly overplayed.

2nd place would be any of Queen’s absurdly overplayed songs. I don’t even hear them as music anymore; they’re just annoying noise.

Grass is green, water is wet, the sky is blue, and privacy settings don’t do anything.

Welp, there goes my morning. Now I have to spend a few hours unfucking everything.

Never trusting this app ever again.

It also dismisses DuckDuckGo’s approach to privacy as one of its failures, claiming that the approach leads to “significant trade-offs to search quality,

This is a bold claim to make considering Google’s search is almost entirely useless now. They’ve let AI-generated SEO trash completely destroy their search results and have turned a blind eye to it.

Get the fuck out.

It does not help that many new vehicles are built like shit and have complexity for the sake of complexity. Electronic door latches, pop-out door handles, having everything controlled via a clunky, outdated, atrocious GUI, etc etc. These problems are not unique to EV’s but a lot of EV’s are going to have them just because they are brand new vehicles.

Subscribe and like, rarely comment.

When dealing with Google - assume everything. Data is Google’s business and you are the product when you use their services.

This is, for sure, an issue carried over from Reddit, but it’s also a byproduct of another issue we carried over from Reddit: Most posts have a substantive issue.

Obviously not every community has this issue, but so many of them seemingly serve as nothing but news aggregators and do absolutely nothing to promote engagement or discussion. It is no surprise that the quality of comments has dropped when there are entire communities that are just copy-pasted news sludge with no other sense of community or engagement.

When the content on your website feels disposable then people will treat it as such. Lemmy as a whole has this exact same issue as Reddit does, which is not surprising because Lemmy is basically a clone of Reddit. I made a post on Beehaw a while ago about how the instance lacked any sense of community and I’ve seen similar sentiments expressed in other instances here and there. People, such as myself, who expected something better from Lemmy and getting frustrated when we can’t find it. There was a supreme opportunity presented to us when the Reddit migration began, to make new communities and spaces for discussion of a higher quality than Reddit could ever provide but Lemmy completely squandered that. Lemmy sucks - and that’s because it clones so much of Reddit… which also sucks.