This is a good point, there are definitely plenty of times I've gotten a response and ended up embarrassed and rethinking a bit how I approach things, and I'm certainly not advocating to avoid that. And maybe "disable inbox replies" is more something with niche uses and not a general solution here. I guess the main reason I mention it is, most of the time I have felt a similar kind of anxiety about responses has been over some specific comment I believed really should be said but knew was likely to get a hostile reaction, and being able to rule out worries over those specific comments helped a lot on Reddit.
The larger point I want to make though is that the anxiety you are describing in the OP post should be overcome, and shouldn't be a struggle people face alone without help. I want to hear from more perspectives, and it's not great to think it's likely many are deterred entirely by this sort of fear of social disapproval. IMO learning from mistakes is harder if it's considered as and feels like a punishment or enforcement of some external will.
Of course if someone never wants to read comments they can just do that, but I think that's a bit of a different thing because it seems that would indicate disinterest in back and forth engagement here overall instead of just a specific kind.
I wonder though why you feel that you should "face consequences" for expressing an opinion you expect will be unpopular, while at the same time expressing anxiety about the possibility of it happening (when you have conviction you're right even), because that's honestly confusing to me. Why would it necessarily mean you 'screwed up' just because what you have to say triggered hostility? Wouldn't it be better just to be able to worry about it less, and express yourself more freely without chilling effects? People might say this could be abused, but I guess the way I see it is that letting others have the last word is what it amounts to externally, and what you choose to read or feel yourself is private and something you have broad license to make your own choices about.
For me the most common situation on Reddit where I use this feature is if I have something to say in disagreement with someone who is already talking aggressively about something. Where I have good reason to think they're likely to leave a nasty response, and that there likely won't be anything productive left to say, I'll probably have to hold myself back from responding further anyway, so there's no point feeling anxious in the meantime worrying about getting the inbox notification.
I also disable vote scores, though fortunately that's something Lemmy does have now afaik.
I don't see how it's fine because it's basically just a loophole that makes the law useless isn't it? If they have ultimate authority over what is and isn't allowed on your phone, and the owner of the phone has no say in that, what do the details of how it happens matter?
But the meme is making the more extreme claim that no uses exist, so any counterexamples mean it's untrue. Not the best way of criticizing companies that don't know or care what a technology is good for imo.
This, plus I find it way easier to not care now that I don't watch television anymore and have a good adblocker and so never see advertisements for movies.
So what? It may arguably be not a developer's fault, but it is everyone's problem, given the growing dystopian alternatives to an accessible distributed software ecosystem. A problem can be acknowledged without admitting blame. Happy cake day btw.
You need social proximity for democracy to work, because that's how you have conversations about issues. We would need a shared global culture and factors that mean people at every level of society have friends distributed around the world. The specific rules and bureaucratic procedure are less important, the main thing is people in different places need to become more connected to each other.
I have read that this is actually a bad idea because the post office people know which addresses are vacant and know that it's likely an illegal package because lots of people have that idea.
It's more like a separate consideration than a part of the same spectrum, because these are just priorities that happen to contradict each other. In theory you could be both pro-choice and pro-life and try to optimize for both, making some degree of legal allowances for people to choose abortions but propagandizing against actually doing so and doing things like promoting sex education, the use of birth control, and poverty reduction that would decrease the rate of abortions. Or have a Zardoz esque ideology and be against both.
Of course most of the time pro-life seems to just be a euphemism, since people who are against the right to an abortion tend to not otherwise be concerned with things that make people more likely to want to choose abortions. They mostly just don't want women to have an out for what they see as the rightful consequences of having sex.
Github is a way of quickly getting some indication that software is legit before you install it, because you can see at a glance various ways others have interacted with it, and potentially look into things further. If it's on Github the code is probably at least published, which is another sign of not being sketchy, so it's a good thing to be able to append to a web search. I also like that it's easier to find info about how to install software from Github than from some self published website for that particular software, because the information is generally going to be in the same place and use the same conventions every time.
If you're only writing code for yourself, Git by itself would be fine, but there's definitely a need for something that is basically a sort of social media for software.
This is a good point, there are definitely plenty of times I've gotten a response and ended up embarrassed and rethinking a bit how I approach things, and I'm certainly not advocating to avoid that. And maybe "disable inbox replies" is more something with niche uses and not a general solution here. I guess the main reason I mention it is, most of the time I have felt a similar kind of anxiety about responses has been over some specific comment I believed really should be said but knew was likely to get a hostile reaction, and being able to rule out worries over those specific comments helped a lot on Reddit.
The larger point I want to make though is that the anxiety you are describing in the OP post should be overcome, and shouldn't be a struggle people face alone without help. I want to hear from more perspectives, and it's not great to think it's likely many are deterred entirely by this sort of fear of social disapproval. IMO learning from mistakes is harder if it's considered as and feels like a punishment or enforcement of some external will.