Maybe ISPs is an okay comparison? Most of us are on different ISPs but we access the same internet.
It's probably more productive to just ignore the technical details. Half the country seems to believe they're buying "wi-fi" nowadays.
Just stick with "try Mastodon" or "try Lemmy" and let the non-technical folk build whatever mental model suits them best.
Just for the record: the Sun ended Page 3 in 2015.
No "it was a different time" excuses wash yet.
No.
There's no need for monoculture - especially on a platform that aims to be decentralised.
Look at it this way - if some town has three gay bars, three metal pubs and three old-man real-ale pubs, it's not an issue for the LGBT community, the metal community or the drunk old men; they're just different places to drink. Possibly the drunk gay old metal fans might get confused, but they sound awesome and are likely welcome everywhere.
...actually, thinking about it, I bet the drunk old men probably do have an issue with all eight of the other pubs they don't go to. But that's just them.
I would love to know more without having to actually research who this guy is.
With the greatest of respect: the guy was Chancellor of the Exchequer for years. It seems reasonable to assume people know who he is in a UK politics forum. (edit: sp.)
That is indeed the system.
Ah, the state of the gender paygap. It's 2023 and still a woman can't be fairly compensated for tanking an essential public service into the ground smh.
I will literally never tire of recommending "A Classless Society" by [ahem cough mumble idk just google it]
Historical summary of British history in the 1990s - hugely interesting to me, having lived through it, to see a higher-level analysis of what was going on, not to mention finding out a bunch of stuff that I'd either forgotten or missed at the time by being too busy with Airfix kits or scrumping apples in the golden dusk or whatever it was we did for fun back then.
Indeed, give them no quarter.
Tories practically exist to fellate the landed gentry - they'll come for yours too given half a chance.
I think this sounds reasonable.
Very probably too little, too late, but hey ho.
For my money: yes, you should use an IDE or something like one, but not because you're "missing out" - rather, because a plain text editor will limit your progress.
There are (still!) people around who think it's some sort of badge of honour to only use text editors, but in reality, this means they miss the syntax errors and typoes that we all make because we are human, and end up wasting hours looking for them when an IDE would let them see them.
You wouldn't turn up at a cookery school saying "I'm still a beginner, so I'm only going to use this pair of scissors" - specialised knives and utensils are part of the chef's toolkit, and becoming a better chef is just as much about learning to use them effectively as it is about memorising recipes. It's the same with programming.
Forget the forensics guys, if he keeps this up they'll be prepping the rubber hose and dentistry tools guys.