like, this is typical boomer humor and i could just ignore it

but i feel the urge to give serious criticism to these kind of things.

your first mistake was to say “they seem harmless”. don’t let appearances fool you. Sun Tsu already said “know the other one, and know yourself, then you need not fear the events in a thousand years” (rough translation)

your second mistake was to assume that you’d have to keep them, i.e. pay for their expenses and stuff. you know, you can ask them to pay for their own expenses.

and the third mistake was to assume they’re “not trainable”. i assume you mean by this that their behavior can never change or improve in any way. that is very far from the truth. everybody can learn if the teacher is wise enough and has enough empathy to actually reach the other one. if the student is stubborn, it’s because the teacher is abusive. if the student is dumb, it’s because the teacher’s words lack clarity. if the student does not make progress, that simply means that the teacher has nothing of value to teach.

you know, i’ve always been wondering about whether that is secretly a covert plan of the wife so the husband works longer hours, makes more money and makes the family richer. i’d seriously not put that past some people i’ve met in my life …

be the woman you want to see in the world

facebook has a very different target audience

facebook is mostly about 60+ year olds holding their beer and saying sth like “beer, car, church is all we need” while instagram is predatory on 16-y.o girls telling them that they’re not pretty and worthy of love if they’re not significantly (scarily, in fact) underweight and wear lots of makeup to cover their true emotions/face.

back then it wasn’t about political independence from the US.

the EU has made a lot of noise in the last 2 weeks about getting off of US platforms. Here’s a few examples:

https://apnews.com/article/europe-digital-sovereignty-big-tech-9f5388b68a0648514cebc8d92f682060

https://ecfr.eu/publication/get-over-your-x-a-european-plan-to-escape-american-technology/

There’s many more. The movement is significant.

i would even say searching and finding are about equally important.

finding means that you stumble upon good content by accident, which is i.e. with content recommendation algorithms. We need a system that shows you similar communities to those that you’re already subscribed to. I even made a post about this here.

Also we really need a better way to link to other posts and comments. I.e. it shouldn’t bring you to another site but open the link on your site/app/viewer.