It’s a very easy change to default ‘Auto expand media’ to true for half of new users, and see what effect it has over a few months. It’s also a fun experiment with no real drawbacks.

Writing the code to do that is very easy, determining what metrics are actually important and impact user success and what metrics accurately track user success is much harder.

I do generally agree though! Personally I just asked the instance admins of lemmy.ca to redirect lemmy.ca/r/... URLs to lemmy.ca/c/... URLs (rather than 404ing), as a tiny user facing feature for Redditors coming over, and they did it in a second.

It’s not that popular of a concept on here, probably since there’s massive selection bias (everyone here evidently found a way to struggle through), but you’re completely right and I find that that lazer focus on usability is one place that Open Source advocates and projects often struggle with.

And personally, I think it’s because most open source projects are built and run by programmers since they’re the ones who can build an open source project, whereas a consumer facing site like Reddit / FB / TikTok/ IG, would be planned out and designed by a product manager, working closely with a designer and market researcher, and then get programmers to build that for them.

It’s a model that’s really difficult to pull off though in a community primarily consisting of programmers volunteering their free time, but I think it’s worth keeping that in mind. Open Source projects that are consumer facing (and especially ones that rely on network effects), really need to work hard to stay in that user facing headspace.

Yeah, exactly, like saying “thankfully we don’t have to have sex”. It’s naiive and ignorant of the actual world we live in, and not helpful to the conversation at hand.

Bruh it’s like people are having a conversation about how best to treat someone’s STD and youre coming in saying sex is bad and you just shouldn’t have sex.

You’re not discussing the morals of the situation at hand, you’re derailing the conversation to talk about your moral crusade instead.

And then he publicly disavowed and abandoned that guy.

If I wanted to have a conversation about the ethics of eating meet I would, and if you have a solution for suddenly convincing everyone to be vegan then that’s great, do it.

Otherwise, don’t muddy the waters with your irrelevant abstinence only moralizing during a harm reduction conversation.

I literally am vegetarian at the moment, Im just not a crusading idiot about it.

I think I know exactly how many Americans are protesting right now.

Google what harm reduction is if you need to hear yourself type so badly.

He could literally just say whatever he wanted on a hot mic.

Stop trying to pretend it was a protest. It wasn’t.

No they fucking wouldn’t. They would sit at home and watch the Superbowl and clap along like they are right now.

America really wants to invite a Canadian sized IRA on themselves, I suppose they can fuck around and find out.

Yeah, fortunately fuck off.

You wanna talk about the ethics of eating meat, do it in a thread that cares and wants to talk about it.

Like my fucking god, you realize that you are exactly the Republican, abstinence-only, sex educator; butting your head into a conversation about harm reduction right?

You think your pithy dumbass comment will suddenly convince everyone to be vegan? No? Well then guess what, it’s not the clever solution you seem to think it is.

So basically, a whole lot of unnoticed under currents while he’s yelling at the top of his lungs about drake?

Yeah, seems totally not petty now.

Taking shots at Drake when Trump is there seems kinda petty tho.

The article also doesn’t say they couldn’t or wouldn’t intensify operations any further. They talk about the state today, not down the line in the future

Yes it does. It literally says that our supply management system is designed to spread out production across regions so that you can’t ever have that many eggs produced in a single place.

If you’re saying ‘well maybe Canada will throw out it’s supply management system and do something completely different’ then sure, literally anything can happen in the future, that’s not a meaningful point. The point is that Canada’s supply management system prioritizes production being distributed over greater areas which inherently leads to smaller farms and helps to prevent the spread of disease, and is a better system than the American one of mass concentration and racing to the bottom.

The article is literally entirely about how Canada’s supply management system prevents us from moving that direction.

Yeah, factory farming is still shit, but there is a structural difference with allowing farms to concentrate to the level that American farms do. When an infectious disease hits, you cull a far greater proportion of the population.

Supply management doesn’t solve all ethical issues with eggs and dairy, but it is still a better system than unregulated free market capitalism.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/egg-prices-avian-flu-canada-us-1.7450654

It’s not an unsolvable problem. Eggs in Canada are cheap and have remained cheap. The problem is with unchecked capitalism.

America is in the find out phase when it comes to fucking around with letting capitalism min max ‘efficiency’ over resiliency.

This is dumb. Moore’s law may be mostly dead, but chips are still progressing at an absurd pace. In 6 years you’ll be able to run the o1 model on a raspberry Pi with no internet access.

It’s typical for tech companies to reorganize because they are losing cash, yes.