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  • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldtoFediverse@lemmy.worldwe need more users
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    1 day ago

    Lemmy copying Reddit with the downvotes system is something that really frustrates me.

    The downvote button is one of the most toxic things about Reddit. Nobody uses it the way it is supposedly intended to be used.

    Lemmy saw that and thought great, let’s copy.

    I don’t know whether they did it because they wanted to make a straight up Reddit clone, or whether they mistakenly thought Lemmy users would be above that kind of behaviour (lol), but either way it was a mistake IMO. It just encourages division.






  • This.

    I’m really tired of people letting perfect behaviour the enemy of good in every single online discussion.

    I’m very well aware that parental controls aren’t a 100% foolproof protection for my daughters, but that certainly doesn’t make them useless.

    Based on that mentality we may as well not ban murder, because some people break the law anyway. We may as well not have vaccines, because no vaccine is 100% effective for all people. It’s so brain-dead.



  • That pronunciation took off because Top Gear was going to record a segment about Dacia before they hit the UK market.

    Top Gear did reach out to Dacia and ask how it was pronounced, but Dacia took so long replying to the email that by the time they did, Top Gear had already filmed it saying Day-see-er. It was too late.

    And because of the enormous reach of Top Gear at the time, that pronunciation became solidified in people’s minds.

    Or at least this was the story told by Richard Porter, the ex Top Gear producer, on his podcast.