You live in Finland.
We have military service here because we're a small country with a large and aggressive neighbour that not only has attacked us within living memory, but is currently demonstrating what it does to neighbouring countries that it thinks it can get away with attacking.
If military service makes sense anywhere...
I would have replied to this earlier, but my Lemmy instance was unexpectedly down...
Federated services are cool. They're not black magic, but they have their own issues that still need to be handled better for there to be mass adoption.
Every day, though, these federated platforms are being developed. Different users have different thresholds for what they're willing to put up with, and slowly but surely, more and more people are going to be within the expanding bubble of acceptability.
If users need to "take some time [...] to wrap their heads around it", the UX is not ready for mass adoption. It's that simple.
I consider myself relatively savvy in this area, and I still regularly run into walls with random federation-related issues.
That's what bothers me about these sorts of threads. We represent a completely self-selected group of people who have not just managed to create accounts on the Fediverse, but then decided to stick around.
Of course we think it's simple.
We do not represent "typical users" (whatever that means) of mainstream platforms, and yes, Mastodon, Lemmy etc. have a lot of work ahead of them to make themselves appealing to those users.
It doesn't really help to talk about how simple the Fediverse is, or to shame people who find it confusing. The only thing that will actually help take it mainstream is UX work to remove the friction and make it as simple to use as we claim it is.
Yes, I've read the Wikipedia article. That sentence is a little misleading, as the original study was arguably about both.
The initial study by David Dunning and Justin Kruger examined the performance and self-assessment of undergraduate students in the fields of inductive, deductive, and abductive logical reasoning, English grammar, and appreciation of humor.
Edit: ...with the reasoning tests being a crude proxy for intelligence.
Note that I was careful not to mention intelligence in my original post either.
The one who didn't eat all the eggs he promised to eat? The ones cooked by Guy Fieri? That Smash Mouth?
Just make sure to add comments like
//Magic, do not touch
To make sure no-one accidentally breaks the spell.
This is reminiscent of social media's favourite, the Dunning-Kruger effect, where in order to assess the level of an attribute that applies to them, an individual must use that attribute itself.
This suggests that there's no relationship between self-assessed and measured intelligence at all as opposed to Dunning-Kruger's exaggerated gap at the low end.
I wonder why Dunning-Kruger doesn't seem to apply here.
I feel personally attacked.
If you're going to memorise a deck of cards, you're better off learning something like the Mnemonica Stack as you can use it as the basis for a whole load of card tricks.
I've heard that the "hot surfacing old posts" bug is more prevalent on instances that haven't restarted for a while. It still shouldn't happen, but I don't think it's universal.
This is like saying:
No-one wants mandatory military service, but it's necessary for the sake of society as a whole. Maybe one day it won't be, but clearly that's just how things are now.
As for choice, you do have a choice and you know it. Civilian service is a thing here.