People are just way too picky when it comes to movies.
You would probably want to go to the support community on your instance, or if one isn't present, get in contact with your admins for assistance on that.
But I wish its good aspects (ease of finding other users who discuss what you like, democratizing who gets a “voice” in public discourse, allowing users to directly confront public figures/institutions when needed, etc) could be replicated on Mastodon somehow.
Besides that last point (as that depends entirely on getting those in the space to begin with), I think the first two come down to the Mastodon culture needing to shift a little to be less...Hesitant? That may not be the best word for it, but some of the discoverability and openness of discussion may be related to this culture of hesitancy to connect & post from some who have faced the brunt of bullshit & harassment on corporate social media.
There's also the other side to this of an air of proactive rule/norm enforcement that itself makes folks uncertain of what's okay to post or which way to post in some instances, which may be a misreading of the instance/space but sometimes it isn't and though well-intended, doesn't help a ton either.
Are you signed in to an instance, or viewing without signing in? Apparently (and this may be a case by case situation), those stats aren't shown when one isn't signed in.
I can see them when signed in & I've clicked on a post though, mainly the favorites (likes) & boosts (retweets), whereas comment counts are sorta visible before clicking a post to view replies. I say sorta as if a post has multiple replies it just shows as reply icon 1+ instead of the exact count.
You're kinda not wrong, and definitely not wrong about the breaking news part, but I've found a lot of lighthearted goofing about to do on there, partly from following silly bot accounts & boosting them, and partly from the more relaxed & imo better curated all/other server feeds of smaller instances.
On the larger instances it's harder to find this good middle ground, especially if you go in without anyone in mind to follow. The other weird quirk to all this is that by default Mastodon is more private than spaces like Twitter, so people have to actively choose to tag their posts and enable features that might help others find them. Also, if you don't have many remote followers, your posts won't federate to as many other instances, and similarly, if someone limits who can follow them their posts (which may be fun & great) won't travel as far. The latter isn't a default enabled setting or anything, btw, but I think it may have a subtle effect on the general vibes of the space.
I'm not now, but I was wondering if the update may have logged people out to help with that, or if that may have just been a coincidence.
Should it have logged folks out as a means to help resolve the login issues? I honestly couldn't tell because when I went away before this update, I was experiencing the issue and came back to it logged out, thinking it was a continuation of the issue till I saw this post...But then it left me asking this.
I noticed it a little yesterday, but strangely it seems worse today. I'd cleared cache & cookies after the compromise issue, so I was pretty sure it wasn't to do with not doing that, however I think OP's on the right track with their assessment.
Not really sure why it would suddenly seem worse though, other than maybe something to do with server traffic/activity.
I'm not entirely sure how they'd have that account age either, but it is worth noting that the Fediverse itself (or something in this vein) is much older than either Lemmy or Mastodon (to address @animist@lemmy.one's point), so even setting aside database futzing it may not be impossible.
One of the older forms of this that I'm aware of (besides Usenet, which is running on different tech), is OStatus & GNU Social, which interestingly enough may be hitting that 10/11 year mark (or older, wiki page on the subject is unclear on when it originated).
On review, you're right, but I do think there is a notable ambiguity regarding whatever Smith's trying to describe with his "invisible hand" concept, which is more of what I was referring to than any sort of magic. An ambiguity which, I think it may be fair to say, is among those misquotings and employed as an argument to defend deregulation and unregulated capitalism.
I'd have to do some further reading to get a better sense of what Smith may have been trying to say with that idea, but at least at a glance it seems I'm not alone in finding it questionable. At best it appears to be the notion of incidental good produced from self-interested endeavors in circumstances of good governance, and to which I think you raise a good point in Smith's articulation of what prudent governance might look like, e.g.
The interest of the dealers, however, in any particular branch of trade or manufactures, is always in some respects different from, and even opposite to, that of the public. To widen the market, and to narrow the competition, is always the interest of the dealers. To widen the market may frequently be agreeable enough to the interest of the public; but to narrow the competition must always be against it, and can only serve to enable the dealers, by raising their profits above what they naturally would be, to levy, for their own benefit, an absurd tax upon the rest of their fellow-citizens. The proposal of any new law or regulation of commerce which comes from this order [of employers/dealers that live by profit], ought always to be listened to with great precaution, and ought never to be adopted till after having been long and carefully examined, not only with the most scrupulous, but with the most suspicious attention. It comes from an order of men, whose interest is never exactly the same with that of the public, who have generally an interest to deceive and even to oppress the public, and who accordingly have, upon many occasions, both deceived and oppressed it.
Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, emphases & bracketed insertion mine for clarity, drawn from earlier portions of the paragraph. Ctrl+F and search this section to verify if concerned.
We needn't worry, my cloister is hardened.
so if we keep it up we'll turn any stretch of road into a roundabout!?
It is entirely appropriate in /c/dysyntacticalconstructions, however.
I don't know if I could keep that vow.
Why don't we call pants longs instead, given shorts?
Take the good with the bad because regular capitalism is not bad. Unfettered capitalism is the problem.
The thing is, unfettered capitalism is basically regular capitalism brought to you by Adam Smith & his successors. Bernard Mandeville, who arguably also described capitalism prior to Smith, called it out for its faults and said that it may only be to the public benefit through careful regulation, whereas Smith thought that greed would somehow regulate itself.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, Smith is the one more may have heard of today over Mandeville.
Microplastics on your microplastics? Living luxuriously, eh?
More and more I've been seeing backpacks (small & some regular sized) or occasionally sling bags (single strap backpacks with less storage that sling across back). Honestly those make more sense, even if they're not as "fashionable".
Piracy isn't piracy when it's no longer sold.
Thanks! I honestly wasn't sure & didn't want to mislead anyone with my speculations.
I think it's kind of the other way around, it's that people aren't picky about their movies and so take what's heavily marketed to them. I enjoy movies but I'm not a cinephile or into them enough to follow a bunch of sites that cover the whole range of movies from big budget to indie, and I think that may put me in with a lot of folks, and from this position, it's honestly kinda hard to hear/see about anything but big budget movies.
A little while ago I started to try to find some movie news sites to follow that cover mid-budget/indie films and quickly realized I don't really know enough about this area to determine what even really counts as lesser known/indie in the movie industry.