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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • I fucking hate Discord and how it’s absorbed what should be forums.

    When I’m creating a discussion online about a particular game or project, I’m looking to hear from the broader community over a longer term; not just limited to whomever happens to be online on this one specific platform at the time of posting.

    People have different schedules, we’re not all online together at the same times; especially when you factor in timezones. Discord however makes it massively frustrating if not impossible to hold a discussion unless everyone you want to talk to is present and ready to read and reply now. Otherwise your conversation gets burried in the mess of other people having their own conversations and nobody wants to scroll through thousands of messages in the history of when they last logged on.

    You can break out conversations into their own rooms, but that only goes so far and at that point you may as well just have a damn forum; that’s what they are for.

    Then you get into the problem of repetition and searchability. People often run into common problems or ask the same questions; but with Discord, you’ve got to re-explain the same things every time they’re brought up, instead of just pointing the user to an old forum post that already solves their problem (they may have even found it themselves through a web search, saving them from even having to ask and waste people’s time. Discord isn’t indexed by search engines so old conversations/solutions are lost).

    A group chat platform is not an acceptable replacement for a forum and I will die on that god damn hill.




  • That’s very subjective.

    Both platforms have the option for mods to tell you exactly what you did wrong; and on both, sometimes they utilize that option sometimes they don’t.

    It’s entirely up to the individual mods in each specific community.

    Lemmy does generally tend to be a bit more open; just because it’s a growing platform looking to expand its userbase, so the mods make a bit more of an effort to create peace/understanding vs just ban hammering any problems into oblivion.

    Reddits grown big enough that it can throw its weight around a bit carelessly and have less worry of the userbase collapsing.


  • That’s not a simple question to answer.

    The electrician will have to fish wire through the walls between the new outlet and the panel.

    Depending on the construction and the specific path, they may only have to cut a couple small holes and feed wire between them, or they may have to cut several to get past studs and navigate obstacles; but generally they shouldn’t need to open the entire wall/path*. There will definitely be some cutting, it just depends on the job how much exactly.

    Retrofitting new circuits can be super quick and easy, or it can be a massive headache. It’s varies quite a bit.

    * Specifically with stud+drywall construction. These types of walls have a cavity inside where you can feed wires through easily. The UK for example uses a lot of masonry and plaster to make solid interior walls. With these types of walls there’s not much choice but to carve a channel in the wall, then plaster over it later.





  • And everyone is just like “that’s totally something they would do! Lol”… What?

    Keep in mind pretty much everyone on this platform already hates Tesla and does not nor would they own a Tesla vehicle. There’s also a certain ‘you got what you deserve by buying that’ kind of attitude towards Tesla owners.

    This is behaviour we expect from this shit company and it doesn’t directly effect any of us commenting on it. We just get to point and laugh (for now).

    The discussion might be a little different if it was a less expected brand like IKD, Audi. But who’s to say for sure; there’s been a lot of ‘cattle’ behaviour lately.