It's happened to me before. I don't know why you sometimes get comment and upvote data, and sometimes you don't (it's not because of me being the first subscriber on my instance). When it's happened, I didn't get the old data, but I did start receiving stuff from the date I joined, so if you can see this comment on your instance's copy, then that's something at least.
It's interesting that all the replies (so far) are to you, rather than OP, because the behaviour of Lemmy is more interesting than just answering 'No' about their original query. So you could nuke everything in this post if your wanted to.
The 'obvious trade-off' part doesn't acknowledge how much of social media engagement is driven by the urge to correct someone. So I think it's something to be mindful of: if you say something wrong, and someone corrects you, then your choices should be: leave it be; strikethrough your text; or edit it to literally say "[removed]", which are all better options than deleting it.
To give an example - from when I commented on an eerie Terrible Real Estate Photo with a oddly-placed chair in it:
The replies to me - that it's an optical illusion, and that the sockets are part of building regs, have value on their own, and shouldn't disappear just because I might get embarrassed by my comment.
I think the creators of Korean dramas are aware of the issue - the last one I watched was The Glory, which seemed to go out of its way to make its characters visually distinctive.
For me, I have to stop myself blanking it when I hear a name from unfamiliar language, and instead of thinking "Well I'll never remember that", force myself to take note, that's she's "Lee Sa-ra" and he's "Jeon Jae-joon", etc. I find it useful to pause the screen once in a while, to actually make sure I know who's who, and what their motivations are.
Accomplished debut feature from writer/actor/director Franklin Ritch - uses a bunch of filmmaking tricks to produce an engrossing sci-fi film, even though there's zero VFX, and I didn't even realise it's just a few people talking in rooms until it was over.
I always took the term 'bullshit jobs' to refer to jobs that produce something that society doesn't really require, and typically only exists because they need someone to deal with the output of someone else's bullshit job.
I don't have a problem with email verification, 'cos I just don't use my main email account for it. I've signed up to 3 instances previously, and 2 of required it fwiw.
But you'll need something to deter bots, if only because other instances will defederate you if too much spam/trolling is coming from your site.
I registered and logged in, but it didn't make it easy
After registering, it didn't say anything about verifying the email. When I went to the Login screen, it just did nothing after pressing the 'login' button. After I went to my email and clicked the verification, it came up with a message 'saying Email Verified', and then it let me log in, to a screen that said 'Verify Email'. Obviously, I just had to click on something like 'Communities' to see the main page, but it was a bit odd.
I'm using the Brave browser on an ancient MacBook Air, if that helps.
This is great news. I got suckering into clicking a link about 'England's semi-final heartbreak' earlier (they were talking about last time, the fiends)
Lando lives in Cloud city. The quote is a mangled version of a well-known Skyrim quote about the Cloud District (it's super passive-aggressive, made worse by the default game not letting you kill the guy). That's all there is to it, really.
The admin for a bigger community - https://lemm.ee - has said they've assessed the situation re: piracy, and don't see a need to block the community at dbzer0.
Hey, that's not true. They also had posts complaining about trans people existing and Star Trek fans being nerds. Still, it's admirable - in a way - the effect they had: I ask the lemmy.world admins for updates on fixing their technical issues, and get no reply. This guy makes one post, and they all leap into action.
https://communick.com are intending to provide those services. (.news is their Lemmy server)