That’s a quality summary.

That’d track

100% usability and algorithm. I still visit Reddit because r/all is perfectly entertaining rage bait.

Lemmy is fine usability-wise, but we’re short engaging content.

Mastodon’s lack of algorithm makes it a really hard long-term sell.

They aren’t gonna leave until it’s untenable here.

Postcrime will be there?

Precrime will be here!

and “enters” ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡° )

We all have our reasons for being here. The politics is definitely depressing, but it’s something a lot of Lemmites have in common.

You’re right that it’d be nice if there was more going on.

Overwatch License

Modification of the source code is only allowed if your competitive rank in Overwatch is higher than the maintainer’s.

We’re negative doomscrollers, true. But most people seem pretty polite, at least in my experience.

This. There has been a huge investment in the tooling around JS. Using TypeScript, you get the benefit of that ecosystem with a decent language.

It isn’t perfect, but it’s perfectly cromulent.

Take a look at the global feed. Subscribe to what you like. Eventually you’ll have enough.

I only heard Coast to Coast a few times. The first couple of times I thought it was some kind of radio play (like the ones they used to play late on CBC) or art project. When I realized the callers were sincere, it just seemed sad.

There’s also laziness. Until recently I didn’t care about a will because I didn’t have dependents or assets.

My older relatives have taken the appropriate steps: created wills, had discussions with their families about what is to be done after their deaths, paid for funerals, and arranged interment.

As are mortgages, car loans, and insurance.

The funeral home that handled my relative’s death runs regular grief counseling sessions. They mailed me reminders about them near holidays. I didn’t go, but I appreciate the service.

This may depend on jurisdiction. Joint accounts were not frozen in my case. A death certificate was only required to remove the deceased party from the accounts.

What happens if your partner sets up your home network and TV subscriptions and their email account is locked because you’re not the account holder.

In my case I was able to present the death certificate to the providers and the accounts were quickly closed, with the appropriate billing and hardware returns. It was no more inconvenient than a normal return.

I was fortunate. The deceased planned ahead and did all of the things I haven’t done: arranging a funeral and burial, keeping their will up to date, writing down their usernames/passwords, and making the appropriate joint bank accounts.

This is repeated across every single aspect of modern life. Your robot vacuum cleaner is linked to a single person, as are your IoT lightbulbs. It’s absurd.

My experience was with established services in mature sectors: they have procedures for dealing with deceased customers’ accounts. It was relatively convenient, even at a really shitty time.

None of that is easy, convenient or handled.

Why not?

Newer services don’t have that institutional experience. They haven’t existed long enough. But they’re starting to: Facebook has the concept of deceased users. As time goes on, more “new” services will as well.