I have no context about why NiceVancouver became its own subreddit, but IMHO community fragmentation is definitely what we don't need, especially with the user base so small.

All bars, all the time.

Personally I don't see any benefits for the loops, and a couple major drawbacks IMHO:

• Loops are less stable and require more physical force exerted by the user in order to gain a minimal amount of stability by pulling the loop taught.
• Loops feel dirtier and far harder to clean. Of course given that it's public transit it's not going to be fully sanitized or anything, but I feel like users can more easily take steps to protect themselves using bars (wiping the bar quickly before grabbing it, or shielding themselves by holding it through a piece of clothing).

It's probably less wise to assume that someone is basing their vote entirely on a single grievance they express.

Personally I wouldn't be too dismissive upfront. Relevant part of the article:

But the more charitable — and, Shariff believes, more accurate — view could be related to the bystander effect.

The well-studied theory posits that people are less likely to offer help if there are many other people around. It could be because they think other people are better-positioned to help, or because they do not know what to do in an unfamiliar situation and look to others for cues to the acceptable social response.

Compare a car crash today vs in the years before everyone had a globally-connected computer with an attached high-definition camera in their pocket. Back then horrific car crashes still happened, and what did the majority of bystanders also do back then? Just stood and watched.

Clarity matters a lot in legal documents. Anyone else remember the case of the comma that cost millions?

...which should hopefully be consistent in future cases.

This was my main concern. Legal rulings are built on those that came before, however they can also be reversed by higher courts.

I found this complementary CBC article on this that provides a little bit of clarity:

But part of the immediate significance of the judgment, advocates say, is that it happened in a court that's relatively accessible; the law has been clarified that at the small-claims level, a contract for sexual services is enforceable.

That means that a sex worker who hasn't been paid by a client can now pursue that in small claims court without having to argue the law, so long as they have the supporting facts.

"Now they can bring this judgment and put it on the judges desk and say, 'here it is, there's precedent for it; I want my judgment,'" said Rose.

Note that this is a quote by the plaintiff's lawyer (Jessica Rose). I'm obviously no lawyer myself but I would read this as precedent-setting for the Small Claims Court of Nova Scotia, with the caveat that other provinces' small claims courts and all higher courts are still lacking their own ruling here. Ultimately the law itself needs to be tested in higher courts, which is also referenced in the article:

In 2021, the alliance sued the federal and Ontario provincial governments, arguing that the conditions of criminalization allow exploitation to flourish. That case had its first hearing in October 2022, and is awaiting a judgment. If successful, it could result in the law being struck down, paving the path to full decriminalization of sex work.

I also prefer "New" and "Top Day", but for different community lists:

• Local + New for what's going on around lemmy.ca communities
• Subscribed + Top Day for the wider Fediverse communities I'm subbed to as a sort of "daily digest"

@smorks@lemmy.ca thoughts on pinning somehow to help new Reddit refugees navigate this strange new world?

What's likely happening is that when you link through and see "You must log in or register to comment", you aren't accessing that post via the lemmy.ca instance. Your account is instance-specific, but as @Aawr said, you can interact with content from other instances (unless that instance or community has rules to the contrary or has blocked your instance).

The way in which you can access that post via your "home" instance of lemmy.ca is either:

• Use search in lemmy.ca and find the post across "All" instances
• Access the fediverse@lemmy.ml community by prefacing it with "lemmy.ca/c/" to view it through your instance: https://lemmy.ca/c/fediverse@lemmy.ml

Using these, I found my way here: https://lemmy.ca/post/626156

This is the way

I was curious about this too, so I did some digging in the source code.

Here is where the sort order of the array of communities that populate the list of communities is currently hardcoded. This is currently TopMonth, aka active users per month, highest first.

Here is a corresponding GitHub issue to request column sorting on the communities list page. During last discussions in that issue, it seems like Lemmy devs don't see this sorting feature as priority.

(Just kidding, in Canada, corps fuck us just as hard, if not harder)

Ain't that the truth. Just look at the cartel that is the telecom companies.