That’s most likely due to low rankings. Lemmy doesn’t prevent it.

My guess: The kids who used Discord for gaming grew up, and just went with the familiar thing when starting new communities and projects.

Also, Discord did heavy marketing early on, until it carved out a network effect. So here we are.

On the bright side:

Aggressive garbage collection and automatic thread locking are optional settings in most web forum software I’ve seen.

Lemmy shares some of the important parts of Usenet, and could develop into something that comes close.

• Terrible format for archiving knowledge
• Terrible tool for retrieving knowledge
• Locks community access behind a corporate license agreement
• Hands control of community-created content to a corporation
• Prevents indexing by web search engines
• Antithetical to interoperability
• Privacy-hostile

A web forum is far better in most cases. If you can’t manage to run your own, there are plenty of lemmy servers that will do it for you. Even an email list (with searchable archives) would be better than Discord.

If you have collaborative documents that outgrow the forum format, use a wiki.

If real-time chat is needed, irc or matrix.

A project hosting its community on Discord is a project that won’t get my contributions.

This is true in C, but not in D.

It’s written correctly. “All but” in the sense used here means almost. “All but certain” means a hair’s breadth from absolute certainty.

(Also, “lose” is the word you were looking for; not “loose”.)

dedent() can help with that.

I don’t think regular users have access to that info on lemmy. (Maybe you’re thinking of a kbin feature?)

In most places, there’s money in enforcement, and power in disenfranchisement.

I don’t know what Thailand-specific motives might be in play here, if any.

Just wait until you learn about the Benevolent Dictator For Life.

Seems like someone with foreknowledge of the reversal could have made some money there, doesn’t it?

if other people aren’t posting it seems silly to penalize the ones who are

I suppose that’s an easy statement to agree with. However, a sensible rate limit is not a penalty.

if this community has any hope of being anywhere near as comprehensive in coverage as the News Subreddits

I left Reddit on purpose.

I would rather have quality than volume.

I would rather my news feed be diverse than dominated by one or two self-appointed influencers of discourse. (Even if they have good intentions.)

I approve of this rule. Ten articles per person each day is more than enough at this stage, and the threshold for “too much” can always be adjusted as the community grows.

The purpose, a spokesperson for the legislature told local media, is to “guide people to deeply understand the trinity of loving the country, the Party, and socialism.”

How is this different from brainwashing?

I would expect any random headset to plug into the headset and microphone ports and Just Work, and ditto for USB

For the most part these days, they do. But OP asked about wireless.

or Bluetooth headsets that report themselves as the appropriate device class.

The problem with Bluetooth is not the operating system or drivers, but Bluetooth itself. The spec famously lacks provisions for good quality stereo output with good quality input at the same time. This is why many wireless headsets use a (non-Bluetooth) dongle.

Blep.

Open source inherently means you can compile the code locally,

Open Source means more than that. It is defined here:

https://opensource.org/osd/

If you use the phrase “open source” for things that don’t meet those criteria, then without some clarifying context, you are misleading people.

for free.

Free Software is not the same as “software for free”. It, too, has a specific meaning, defined here:

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html

When the person to whom you replied wrote “free software”, they were not using it in some casual sense to mean free-of-charge.