[-] Floon@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago

Email has taken 25 years to get people that comfortable with it, and most folks either go with their ISP email, or one of 3 or 4 providers. Discord, you're already in the tech savvy population.

[-] Floon@lemmy.ml 73 points 1 day ago

You have to pick a Mastodon server, before you know anything about anything. The acquisition funnel probably drops 90% of the people checking it out right there.

[-] Floon@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

They did help people, and did it about as much as the government could. Almost 16m jobs created, 6m more than pre-pandemic.

The issue was inflation, but that was global, and the US did better than most of the rest of the industrialized world in that regard. It is a complicated truth vs simple lies: you figure out how to get Americans to listen to the one and not the other.

[-] Floon@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago

You mean the railroad workers? Did you stick around to listen to the end of the story? Where scant weeks afterward, his administration negotiated a contract for the workers that gave them more paid sick days than they were asking for.

[-] Floon@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago

Harris did... exactly that. That was a huge part of her messaging.

The GOP controls the storylines that the media runs along: "Kamala just isn't being specific about her policies" when she was robustly specific, and while Trump said absolutely zero specifics about anything and no one said a word about it.

[-] Floon@lemmy.ml -3 points 2 days ago

The Dems have been putting workers first under Biden the whole time. Putting workers first more than any administration in decades. You guys just believe a bunch of bad press.

[-] Floon@lemmy.ml 24 points 2 days ago

'Murica zealots who claim to love the Constitution have elected someone who wants to shred it. This is the darkest timeline.

[-] Floon@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 days ago

The Inflation Reduction Act could hardly be less marginal. It is about as massive a thing that directly helps the working class in this country that the government is capable of doing. Right up there with the ACA which, shock, also brought by Democrats.

The reason the Dems lose is about messaging, and about media fear. Dems have a "we're all weak so we need each other" message, while the GOP has a "you're super strong and you're being held down by the system" message. No need to prove it, and it sounds great to anyone with even a single complaint about anything.

The media fear is about fighting accusations of bias, which the GOP throws around as standard operating procedure. Lie about it all the time and people will accept it as true, and so the media treats the GOP with kid gloves. Pointing out lies gets called bias, instead of reporting the truth. The demands for "Harris to get specific with policy proposals" was a bunch of horseshit, because she was very specific. Trump gave no specifics, answered no questions, and skated on it all.

[-] Floon@lemmy.ml 34 points 1 week ago

That's bullshit. Dems win when turnout is larger. Turnout was significantly below 2020.

Dems have learned to never nominate a woman again, because this country is so fucking sexist.

[-] Floon@lemmy.ml 44 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

The name holds it back more than you know. No EP or AD wants to put "The GIMP" on their software list for a project. I have to have a conversation with someone ensuring we're good on all our licenses, and they ask, "What is this GIMP thing?" Answering it makes me sound like an unprofessional jackass. The company would rather just pay Adobe.

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[-] Floon@lemmy.ml 28 points 1 year ago

Hate this. Every time, I seem to guess wrong.

Guess I'm a robot.

[-] Floon@lemmy.ml 143 points 1 year ago

The real crime here is downloading Chrome.

Firefox, for privacy protection.

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I've read that it should be possible, but my experience seems to show that that is incorrect, that you need a login for every instance where you wish to make a post or comment. Could someone who knows clarify this?

If you need a login for every instance of Lemmy to participate in non-local communities, then that will, I think, be the #1 issue with Lemmy adoption, and the main reason folks bounce off.

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