the most infuriating combination of address and search boxes

From a UX perspective, those are both ways to start a navigation to a new page, and it’s almost always clear from context which is intended (is the string formatted as a URL? Treat it as such. Otherwise, treat it as a search string). The only hiccup is when actually searching for strings that look like a URL (no whitespace, includes periods), but that happens rarely enough that I’m perfectly happy to manually go to a search engine for those cases. Otherwise, Cmd+L-“type my thoughts”-Enter works smoothly for me in both cases (on Firefox for personal laptop, or Chrome for work one).

What are the issues that you experience with this combined flow?

Mastodon is to Twitter as Lemmy is to Reddit.

laughs in WASM

“A man crying about a chicken and a baby? I thought this was supposed to be a comedy!”

Phew, glad I didn’t miss one :) have a nice day!

Plenty of grammar and punctuation mistakes, but I don’t see any spelling errors?

The Justice Of Kings by Richard Swan

He’s a friend of mine! This is the first time I’ve seen organic mention of the book - very cool!

pay-once-cry-once situation

I’ve never heard this phrase, and I’m struggling to figure it out from context. Does it mean that you regret the purchase after finding out it’s not as good as you thought, but then don’t replace it with something better because you don’t want to spend more?

Helps that Lemmy has orders of magnitude less content. After the third time refreshing with no new content, it gets much easier to put the phone down.

“they could just as easily present them in a way that wouldn’t be blocked” would be a more accurate way of phrasing it. Facebook is not the one blocking this content - rather, it’s detecting that it has been blocked (clientside)

Every day this place becomes more like Reddit

And people give Python shit for significant whitespace 😂

Appreciate the feedback, thanks!

That came across my recommendation queue the other day - despite my dislike for horror, it looks interesting enough that I might check it out!

Yes, the same EU. The fact that it’s considering some poor choices doesn’t detract from the fact that it’s actions thus far have been positive and deserve appreciation. Real Life doesn’t split people neatly into heroes and villains.

It is absolutely insane to me that people rag on the Python packing ecosystem when TypeScript exists. Sure, Python’s not perfect (Rust and Go seem better, from the small amount I’ve dabbled with them), but way easier and more stable than any TS project I’ve worked on.

They’re not inherently insulting - there are ways to use those phrases appropriately, but they can be (and often are) used sarcastically, when the speaker had been clear in the first place.

Do a multitude of automated posts without comments and conversation really count as activity?

Yes, absolutely. Posts are activity just as much as comments - arguably even more so, since Lemmy is not immune to Reddit’s flaw of having a hundred comments saying essentially the same thing. Some subreddits have insightful comments that are worthwhile in-and-of themselves - but they are few and far between.

With a K!

I very much appreciate the perspective, thank you!