everett

"Are slammers pogs?" is the new "are hot dogs sandwiches?"

I feel like it's yet another a thinly-veiled rant disguised as a question. Which is not to say I disagree with their premise, but there has to be a better community for this soapbox stuff.

When naming something, not only should you make sure it clearly describes the thing but doesn't describe anything else. "AI pollution" sounds just as much like something that pollutes AI (for example, training it with false information), much like how "air pollution" is stuff that pollutes air.

I appreciate you explaining this. Finding out it's standard Mastodon behavior makes it even worse, lol.

The term "Fediverse" makes people think there's some true integration across these services when really it's a subset of features that may partially work in some cases, some of the time. Widespread ActivityPub is probably great for developers, but I can't see what it gets users aside from confusion.

part of their instances programming to post to a community if it exists

Wow, what a ridiculous dev-brain design. "If the strings match, dump the content into the community. Whatever instance, who cares?" Communities have rules, norms… and at least in theory, culture.

I get that they probably meant to do a # instead of a @, but that mistake leading to a post on a Lemmy community is just bizarre behavior... their "@" didn't even include an instance. This kind of integration across Fediverse platforms is so janky, and my hot take is that it shouldn't exist.

You would think.

"It did." -Omega, probably

The apparent lack of interest you're seeing is probably a reflection of Lemmy's size and the userbase's interest in such a community. Creating a second one is unlikely to help, possibly even making things worse by splitting the userbase, but best wishes to you.

That is not a dead community or inactive moderator by Lemmy standards.

You can help an existing community become more lively by posting or promoting it yourself.

Why not contribute to the existing one? !brandnewsentence@lemmy.world

That podcast sounds like the audio equivalent of Swann's Way by Marcel Proust, where the narrator is so in his own head he spends pages going into tedious detail describing tiny facets of the most inconsequential recollections from his childhood. Highly recommended for falling asleep.