queermunist

No matter how I read it, it sounds like you're saying "it's sustainable under the right circumstances" and I just don't see how that's useful to even acknowledge.

Literally anything is sustainable by this argument, what are you even talking about?

Okay, now imagine the tool is advertised in a way that tells you to use it wrong.

Do you mean in the magical sense? That there's a karmic force in the universe that causes bad things to happen to bad people.

Or do you mean it in the moral sense? That bad people deserve to have bad things happen to them and it's good when it does.

Let's just call everything a website. It's all on the internet, right?

Digg and Reddit invented the terminology and I don't think people are unfamiliar with it.

If you sort on Lemmy by activity you can get exactly the same behaviour.

Point. That's not the default behavior, though, and most users aren't using the site that way - and I'd argue the site isn't designed the be used that way, and that's why most users don't use that functionality.

And bumping is even often frowned upon because it pollutes active discussions. It’s just people abusing how those forums sort threads.

Not what I meant. I don't mean people making worthless "bump" comments (that often just gets people banned) I mean that forums bump up threads that get new comments.

I use forums, and they're just different.

Lemmy posts are still designed to decay and fall off the front page. The posts last longer if they have participation but the only way to make something last a long time is to sticky the post so it doesn't decay.

Forums aren't like that. Forum threads are meant to stay around as long as people bump them and they can be ancient, with hundreds of pages of comments, and the thread still keeps getting bumped because new content is added to the thread.

Also, the way comments are organized is different. Our comments are threaded so we can have a conversation between us in a comment chain, but forum comments are sequential. The comments section of every thread would look way different if it was a forum.

Forums are just structurally different. If you don't like "link aggregator" that's understandable, it's actually not very descriptive, but you still need to be able to differentiate between forums and whatever-the-heck this space is.

Forums update threads by bumping, so threads from ten years ago can still be on the front page as long as they are active.

The term "link aggregator" was made to differentiate websites that are designed for threads to rapidly decay and be replaced by a constant flow of new content. If you tried to federate lemmy with a forum it wouldn't really work.

Maybe there's another term that could be used, but there needs to be a way to differentiate the two styles.

Okay, but that all just proves the point.

The Democratic Party is a neoliberal political party. Anything to the left is the rare exception.

Put a different way: The party is run entirely by neoliberals, funded entirely by neoliberals, and its elected members are mostly neoliberals. The rank-and-file are essentially irrelevant to the function of the party.

And when the current senior programmers retire the field of juniors that are coming to replace them will be much smaller.

Okay, but like-

You could just be lying.

You could even be a chatbot, programmed to hype AI in comments sections.

So I'm going to trust studies, not some anonymous commenter on the internet who says "trust me bro!"