I’d rather mods who don’t want outside participation to be able to stop their communities from showing in All.

Agreed. Niche communities can get hammered with downvotes and “I don’t want to read this” comments from readers of ALL.

It’s confounding: “show me everything”, then “I don’t like the content in your niche community”. WTF?

I ran a FidoNet BBS back then on a 386-16 and 2400 baud modem. Woot! It would run WordPerfect 5.1 while people were logged on to the board but compiling brought it to its knees.

In 8th (?) grade our larval computing lab was a row of Commodore 64 but there was only one 5.25" floppy drive between them. When you wanted to save or load your proglet you had to

• walk over to insert your floppy
• return to your seat to do your load/save
• walk back over to retrieve your floppy to free up the drive for someone else

At some point I realized that while the owner was walking back and forth you could load their code to see how they approached the assignment. And doing so did not affect their workflow or anyone else at all. It felt like the earth shifted a bit at that moment.

I had a Tmobile Dash that was a similar form factor to the BB but ran Windows Mobile 5.x. I used it until the Google G1 came out.

There are thoughtful people whose opinions I value regardless of topic. Doesn’t mean I agree with them. Right now AFAIK the only {way} to see their content is to look at their profile.

Emojis make everything worse, everywhere

Why Lemmy is racist

why I blocked OP

why am I tempted to find install images for DESQview

/c/newcommunities@lemmy.world