I do, I've been music for a while about an app that had all my fediverse accounts in one place, a long with my email and possibly reddit (but, uh, without ads). I never check my email unless I'm expecting something and I think a big part of why is because it's a separate flow from checking my other text-based social media.
I agree with Tilley that many of Chambers's complaints seem Mastodon-specific, or at least not applicable to the threadiverse.
The only really big disagreement in philosophy I have is the complaint about direct messages not being private messages. We've all seen the way that private messages have been used to harass users on reddit. That direct messages don't include an expectation of privacy on lemmy is, to me, a strength rather than a weakness; something that advantages the recipient over the sender, which is the balance of power we want.
I like the people; the sense of community; public votecasting; the ethos of DIY and self-responsibility; and how most posters make the effort to make posts accessible with alt text for images and summaries for video links.
I dislike that self-deleting or mod-removing a comment also removes all the replies to that comment; that we seem to have settled on "lemmings" as the demonym; and how often video links are posted with no text synopsis or summary, not even the OP saying why they thought it was relevant to the community.
It wasn't until ubiquitous social media that I realized lucid dreams weren't the norm for everyone else. My default dreams are both lucid and recurring: I have the same fifty-odd dreams over and over and have the freedom to change the ending, rewind, or otherwise alter events. Oh, there's one-offs too and not every dream is lucid but that's what I considered a "normal" dream growing up in the previous century.
He's recently made one big change that he likes and is interested in trying other big changes. See if you can direct him to try something a little saner.
I wrote a long thoughtful reply to a heavily downvoted post only to find the post had been deleted before I could hit submit, and I hadn't copied the text.
It's a reply to your comment about downotes. The point of votes is to rank threads, and the point of ranking threads is to promote cogent comments and avoid irrelevance, misinformation, and malice. I do this in real life and I do it here.
On the contrary, in real life I remove myself from conversations where people have nothing worthwhile to say every day. Half my job is judging when that's the case so I can prioritize the interactions where people are ready to be cogent and concise.
I personally love it, and I thought about claiming the Chicago Handshake as a single drink, but in the end Old Style by itself is both more universal and more iconic.
There are times when it's relevant and times when it's not, and the latter is a lot more prevalent.
But on reddit, the real reason is because about three years ago reddit admit let mod teams know that misgendering anyone was a violation of site-wide rule one, and if we mods didn't crack down on it, the admin would crack down on US.
Insisting on gender-neutral language is a way to keep clear of that.
Linda Cardinelli is always Lindsay Weir.