JohnnyCanuck

If the other one is a guess, Tahoma is another strong possibility.

Ugh, damn post title. I went through the whole article looking for the alternatives before realizing the title of the article says nothing about alternatives.

What am I looking at here?

That doesn't change the issue here.

Keep in mind the best answer is still the size. The rest is my opinion.

Besides the obvious size difference already discussed, the biggest causes of Lemmy feeling like a ghost town, are the splitting up of communities, both by instance and by niche, and the lack of common defaults across instances.

The first split is inherent to the design but could be solved (I think I saw a proposal for aggregating like communities from different instances that aren't defederated), but I don't know what the interest level is.

I feel like the second is a mental issue for everyone coming from the likes of Reddit. With the number of people here and the amount of activity you'd see, people should be much more forgiving of "off topic" posts in any given community. I'm guilty of it too, so this isn't meant to be a slight. But the answer to someone asking what community they should post in for some niche topic shouldn't be "create one". It should be "post in a popular related community, they'll be fine with it". I could go on about the nuances, but hopefully my point is clear: hardly any communities (if any) on Lemmy are big and active enough at this point to warrant gatekeeping to keep the noise level down.

The last one would be easier if there was a solution to the first one, but having five or six communities that everyone who joins Lemmy is subscribed to by default would go a long way to making this place feel busier.

I have seen children selling gum in Mexico.

Exactly my point. You said it's an old trope that doesn't happen anymore. It may not be pencils specifically everywhere, but it most definitely still happens in the general sense. You have the kids selling chicle in Mexico, people (especially kids) sell toothbrushes in east Africa, adults sell 10-packs of tissues all over the world, hell, I've seen people walking around selling bottles of water in Vegas.

The "person" is probably the god Isis (often pronounced EE-sis) with wings.

Edit: nevermind, didn't see the other response linking info about it.

This is based on a trope that doesn't really happen any more.

It happens all over the world.

No, it's not the single year loss making me say that. The CEO has basically said they can't compete with BYD, they've been chasing hydrogen with no progress, for 2 decades they have been actively avoiding the EV market (sticking only with hybrids), and now, even when the writing is on the wall that the future is Electric, they're running away once again with their tail between their legs. They were looking for an excuse to not do electric (as they have for ages) and the US tax credit expiration was exactly what they were looking for.

And the biggest issue is that the EVs from BYD (and pretty much everyone else) are going directly for their core market: value-plus compact cars, cross-overs and small SUVs. Their market share is about to tank in Europe and probably Canada, like is already happening in China. I can even see it getting hit in the US with gas prices and inflation killing ICE sales this year.

The funny thing is that they've seen it for motorcycles, but not for cars and SUVs. So maybe that will save them.

Honda is done unless they change leadership and direction. I expect a buyout/merger/bankruptcy announcement soon.

This will go viral, smart marketing.