I had read (in a comment here, so take with a grain of salt) that some had started doing Proof of Work.
I.E. they ask the visiting computer to do some math. This is potentially less annoying to people than clicking on traffic lights or typing unreadable text, but could get costly if you're using bots.
The More sweeping forgiveness attempt was blocked.
He seems pretty committed to forgiving whatever he can get through. It wouldn't be unusual to give up after the initial attempt was blocked, but now he seems to be breaking it apart into more manageable chunks. I'm still slightly hopeful that more forgiveness is coming for those who need it.
That could explain the difference in experiences. I filter out those communities as best I can given the tools available.
It's a good feature, and probably makes sense to default to on. But I know I'll find it more distracting than useful, so I'll turn it off.
Large tooltips on mouseover are usually distracting. Facicons, text, and additional windows do enough to remind me what my tabs are.
New features often aren't helpful to each and every user, but as long as I can turn off the ones that are actively unhelpful to me, I'm perfectly happy to see them.
I didn't see you mention these authors, but maybe because your cutoff date looks to be around 1989:
Not exactly always considered sci fi, but maybe sci fi adjacent:
I'm not sure why you mention government cheese here. Government cheese was cheddar, and not made from waste products/offcuts. It's entirely unrelated, but fascinating story.
I don't think they're confused by times like 1pm.
At least for my brain, 12pm and 12am are the sticking points.
As you note, pm is Latin for after noon, yet we call noon 12pm. Noon isn't anymore after itself than it is before itself. Neither makes any sense.
With 12am, we generally seem to think about midnight as the end of the day, even though it's really the start of the new day. The Latin isn't confusing here, but the numbers get real weird. We start the day counting at 12:00, go up to 12:59, and then reset the count to 1 an hour in? Our 12h clocks are split between being 0-indexed, and a weird variant of modulus 12.
I'm clearly overthinking things, but I don't always immediately remember which 12 is which. Latin doesn't help.
With 00 it's clear which time we're talking about, and which calendar date it's part of. It's also the easiest way to sort out which 12 gets mislabeled what.
Per capita probably isn't a good way to measure this.
Car deaths should probably be by miles driven.
The bag suspended from a stick is called a bindle was also real. I suspect these were just replaced by backpacks that were cheap/ubiquitous enough.
I thought I understood your comment until I got to the emoji. I'm not sure if they work terribly well
Flagged isn't very useful until Lemmy has filtering tools that can act on the flags built in.
Even the mobile apps which support filtering wouldn't be able to react sensibly to an AI tag for posts within this community.
Settings -> Comment Customization -> scroll to the bottom
I don't know if that does exactly what you're asking for, I just turned it on myself