We’re early adopters. By definition: we’re nerds.

Here in Canada we’ve been trying to keep tabs on Trump’s tariff threats. At the start, our media was publishing headlines whenever posted about Canada/tariffs/etc. They seem to have given up on that (partially because Trump’s been distracted recently), but I think readers tuned out.

Instead we’re more focused on three current Canadian reaction, and the effects of whatever the current policies are. Tracking the day-to-day threats was almost information-free because Trump’s whims are so variable.

I think that strategy makes more sense: track the long-term story, without doing constant breaking news about something that’s likely to change soon.

how do you try to discern in real time what is misleading?

That’s really hard. Unless you’re in a position where your opinion will have an influence (ie, you’re a judge, cop, or protestor who can take part in the event), you might as well wait a couple of days for more information to come out.

We’ve done ourselves a massive disservice by subjecting everything to constant, immediate analysis. Most of the time, we can afford to wait and learn more.

Yes.

I spent a bunch of time translating some notes into posts and got one comment and a handful of upvotes. If I saw stats saying 20 or 30 people spent time looking at the posts without interacting, then it would feel like it’s worth doing again.

(I realize Lemmy doesn’t track view time, but still)

Sometimes it feels like I’m posting into the void. It doesn’t feel like it’s worth the effort.

I don’t think this is an age thing:

fixation on trivialities about a client’s appearance or something funny he did instead of getting directly to the point

I see this a lot on political comments on Lemmy and Reddit. People call politicians they don’t like weird pet names and insult their appearance. It’s like they’ve been classified as “other” so the normal rules don’t apply.

There’s value in referring to everyone respectfully. It’s easy to throw clients into the out group because they’re relatively transient. Don’t. Have empathy. Focus on what you have in common and shared goals.

I’d love to take credit for the summary, JuxtaposedJaguar did the work.

That’s a quality summary.

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.

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.

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.

Can you provide examples?

From what I’ve seen in Canada, death is handled like a standard event:

• Most businesses, banks, and government services have fast and convenient closing out paths when someone dies. In most cases a single phonecall/visit is enough to close an account and get the appropriate statements.

• Lawyers follow an established path when handling wills. Unless there’s contention, it’s pretty easy to “finish” the will.

• Funeral homes do an excellent job at handling the deceased’s body, providing grief counseling, running the funeral, and ensuring the cemetery accepts the remains. So long as it’s preplanned, the family and friends just need to show up.

• Government policy around executing a will is generally easy to understand and work with.

• Banks will act as executors. I’m not sure if they do a good job, but it’s relatively inexpensive.

• Health care providers do not try to prolong life for the elderly. From what I’ve seen, they are quick to prescribe end of life care.

• Palliative care is handled by empathic and helpful professionals. There could be improvements in grief counseling.

• My social group was empathic and caring. Family helped as much as possible, as did friends. I doubt this is true for everyone.

What else are you referring to, OP?

1. Read the global feed. There’s lots of content if you spread the net wide.

2. Block annoying posters and communities.

3. Be nice to other lemmites.