Do you have a link to the research? I’m a math educator and I’d like some good materials for encouraging my students.

I personally like Purelymail. Cheap and bullshit-free.

It already has Twitter-like and Instagram-like platforms. How much worse can it get?

Just like you have to make another account on each Fediverse platform because either they’re incompatible or one of them blocks the other.

How is this walled-garden behavior? There is no centralized database of Minetest accounts.

Wiser words have never been spoken.

Nobody is forcing you to play the bad games. In fact, the website in the OP is made precisely for finding the good ones.

Clearly you haven’t played any good mobile games. Or any bad desktop computer games for that matter.

What makes mobile games not “real”? Sounds very gatekeepy. I don’t always have the space to pull out my laptop.

I hate that it constantly plays advertisements for itself. Like, I’m already listening to you, I don’t need to be informed that you exist.

Betteridge’s law of headlines…

You would be able to find them if every instance didn’t decide to defederate with Threads.

It means you’re compensating for the lack of optional/named parameters in your language.

How would federation with Threads have any effect on the usability of a Mastodon instance?

When you want to print something, you can’t just Printf.printf x, you have to explicitly give it instructions on how to print a value of that specific type.

I’ve recently been trying to learn OCaml and find it really nice. The major pain points are

• C-style separate compilation with manually created headers
• Small standard library
• No generic print function
• Hard to use external libraries

Nim

Terminally online people often get the feeling that everyone except a hateful minority agrees with them, when in reality they’re part of a secluded echo chamber.

What does Rust improve over its predecessors? The only really new thing is the borrow checker, which is only useful in very low-level programming.

C is the first language I learned and I think it’s a terrible language full of inconsistencies, footguns and unnecessary complexity.