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Probably 2, 6, or 7. I've always loved the V5/V7, but the liquid ink is messy, a bic is a classic for a reason, and the PaperMate flair has been my go-to felt-tip for a long time now. Though, the ultra-fine version is much better for writing than the medium one.

Content aggregators are not forums. Just having categories doesn't really cover it. CAs are designed so that old posts fall away quickly, so that people will keep posting new top level content and keep people emgaged in the constant scroll, much like Twitter or Facebook. They are largely unstructured, with different "categories" behaving quasi-independently from one another.

Forums are structured spaces where the same people post stuff to the same categories, that are mostly offshoots of the forum's core theme.

People interact with and behave rather differently in these different contexts.

It's harder to see on a large Lemmy instance like LW, but most of the fediverse is very patchwork. The network of Lemmy sites is itself very patchwork, with the MLs, Hexbear, Beehaw, NSFW, etc. all having different defederation profiles, but the whole space is an incomplete mesh. Mastodon has more themed instances than Lemmy, more very small instances than Lemmy, and a much bigger anti-capital, anti-commerce bent than Lemmy, with many more people complaining on main about other instances rules and federation policies, so if you look, you can really see it.

But the whole fedi project is patchwork by nature.

Most of these communuties using Discord are better served by something that isn't a chatroom. So, so, so confusingly many of them use them as a store of permanent information. Like a website+forum.

Many times the benefit of Discord is the ability to paywall parts of it with Patreon integration. We need more foss and federated options that do this.

Well, I hope this quote is spread far and wide in all channels.

Maybe they'll finally let me use Julia at work

So many AP platforms are made by a couple of guys in their garage, it's not even funny, and the mentality of "just dicking around" means what gets used is whatever the whims of the day dictate, rather than the standard.

"If it works, it's not stupid" and all that.

But that kind of work lacks real world testing, and depe concern for public expectaton or desire.

Plus, you have to keep in mind that the idea of interplatform interoperability isn't this core conceit of ActivityPub. It's a potential use case, but it's not an expectation. There's no reason anyone should expect interop like that, other than some developers wanted to try it.

But some didn't, and now that their platforms are gaining audience, they're refactoring to meet that audience's expectations.

A significant issue here, and what's specifically highlighted in this post, is that this group has strong and direct ties to the CPC leader, and so its status as "third party" is questionable.

Plus the blatant and flagrant lying about things and people.

Like, if the union heads had worked on Carney's leadership campaign and then started running ads saying that Poilievre was a habitual cat rapist, all as a means to create the false perception that there were multiple independent groups opposing PP...

But sure, the situations are totally symmetrical.

She won the nomination vote at her local EDA? That's all that becoming a candidate means.

Techbros killed me, Mal.

"Why won't the liberals deliberalize the economy?"

He needs to explain the dead hookers I believe are in his trunk