Also hexbear.net, e.g. example.
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I mean... the scope of the issue is different here.:-)
What I like is that it is still possible to have an excellent conversation here. On Reddit I gave up all hope of that, and was leaving it regardless of finding here or not. I suppose I would just touch grass, read books, play games - the things we used to do before social media. And I do all that too, but also I found that here, you can sometimes have an enjoyable conversation, whereas there you basically never could, towards the end. 🙄
And the tools themselves will get better, over time - e.g. the upcoming Sublinks.:-)
Cross-posting existing posts also helps immensely to cut down on the clutter. I've done that, from larger communities to smaller ones that I wanted to help grow. I've never tried changing the title to see if it still connects, but maybe so, if someone wanted/needed (for the specific rules of the community) to do that.
Except the 2001 American science fiction film directed by Steven Spielberg...
A lot of that is not deserved. Some of it is though. E.g. when handed an assignment, she complains that it's too hard, rather than take advantage of the opportunity. It's like... she ran for the whole job, but then she couldn't handle even just one isolated issue, what gives?
She also reputedly alienates the people working for her, but it's not clear to me how trustworthy that tidbit of information is. Some young rich white boys don't like being told what to do by a woman, perhaps especially a black one, so that very well could not be her fault. Even so, it's yet another strike against her, pointing to lack of leadership skills, even if the severity of it is small.
The bonus is that she could have all of Biden's administration working for her as well. However, will she listen to them, or strongarm them saying that she knows better? Reports say the latter, unfortunately... (and iirc).
Nowhere close to as bad as Trump though, in all of these respects plus so very many more, e.g. the coup attempt, the raping and felony convictions, to name just a few. The problems with Harris are more her electability among voters, not how well she'd do the job, which is possibly not well but again nowhere close to as bad as Trump.
While I am at it, here is a post about what I thought was an astute and fairly comprehensive (more or less) analysis on the topic, from The Atlantic which is almost the last source of news that I would trust from a mainstream media source these days (after they were all bought out by billionaires and now censor information that their owners don't want them talking about). And also here is a short video from Jon Stewart, my hero, saying essentially the same thing - or rather, not that he step down, but that a debate be held so that people are allowed to choose who they want.
But it doesn't matter, we plebes are not offered any choices, beyond whether or which side to vote for. Personally, I expect a lot of people will sit out the election and not vote, identically to what happened with Hillary Clinton in 2016. I can only hope I'm wrong! (But sadly, it's an increasingly likely possiblity, e.g. as Biden calls Zelenskiy, the Prime Minister of Ukraine, as "President Putin" - those gaffes may have been laughed off previously, but especially after that debate performance... these things take on much greater degree of seriousness; especially with big-name & fame consistent Democrat donors like George Clooney jumping on the bandwagon, saying that Biden is not the same man that he was even a few months ago - something has changed, it's obvious to anyone looking). Anyway, it looks like Biden is refusing to step down, so that is that, our opinions don't matter here.
Okay, just checking, cause you know if you wanted... no? it's cul, it's all cul:-)
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The... shorts, right? 👍
Okay I brought that on myself there by adding
To be clear, no I do not say that lightly.
First, we are blowing waaay past all earlier expectations, e.g. those made a decade ago. Second, as the other commenter said, we aren't all going to make it (though you are correct, neither are we "all" going to die - I was being hyperbolic, but then later came and added the aforementioned sentence that did not mesh well into my comment). Third, the randomness of it all is mind-boggling, e.g. remember that one day that the temperature went up by a full 70 degrees F? Imagine it being 100 degrees already, as so many places already (almost) are in the USA, and then such a spike occurs making it 170 for that day - yeah, some people are going to survive it, but what about the plants, the animals, i.e. the crops, the wildlife, the entire ecosystem that exists outside of a cushy building that has A/C?
Anyway, thank you for the correction. I should have said that we aren't all going to make it.
Wait, scratch that - "many" rather than "all"!:-P
All of that aside, it does seem a pretty huge deal, more so than these political matters even.
So if the title were changed from the original, it would still recognize it as a cross post, somehow? Perhaps based on it sharing an identical URL, or something added when you go into the cross-posting interface - if so then I suppose as you said the text in the body about the fact that it's cross-posted. Hrm, and phrased differently, if someone were to share an identical URL independently, so not going through the cross-posting interface at all, would Lemmy and K/Mbin still recognize it as a cross-post?
Thanks for that insight. So if OP meant from a traffic standpoint, then yeah I see it doesn't help at all. It also still splits the comments across the entire Fediverse, rather than concentrating them into like a megathread. And people could upvote multiple posts, and comment inside multiple ones, etc., so it actually increases traffic to have them split up, perhaps not quite as much as fully independent posts but more than if they were singular ones.
Whereas from a UX standpoint, it is so helpful to tidy things up to see e.g. one post shared to 5-20 communities rather than each of those showing up as its own individual post, taking up most of your feed even after you've already consumed the content and want to see what else is going on. And as we are seeing, each community has its own slant on the type of discussions that they want to have, so even if the posts could be conjoined somehow, into like a pseudo-megathread, the impact of that would hit very differently than allowing them to be different (cross-)posts. So cross-posting seems a nice balance between fully individual vs. fully conjoined:-).