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  • muelltonne@feddit.orgtoEurope@feddit.orgReading habits in Europe
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    25 days ago

    It is even worse:

    Between 20-25% of the European population is functionally illiterate. In other words: at least one citizen in five does not have the reading and writing skills they need for functioning in society, with all its consequences for education, employment, health care, welfare, social integration and political participation. ‘More than 73 million adults in the EU… do not have sufficient literacy levels to cope with the daily requirements of personal, social, and economic life’

    https://blogs.fasos.maastrichtuniversity.nl/EUS2516/lowliteracyineurope/

    So they are not just not reading any books, they literally can’t read books.





  • I would question your focus on growth. Yes, we all want this place to succeed. But do we really want this unlimited growth like Facebook, Reddit and all those other companies? Small communities are great, they give you a connection between users, they spark friendships and great discourse. Those are great. Yes, they are smaller than those multimillion user subreddits, but we’ve all seen those big subreddits slowly burning down. Dying to bots, to marketing spam, to low effort, popular comments, to reposts, to karma farming, to US politics. We’ve seen subreddit after subreddit dying to moderator burnout - because big subs are really hard to moderate, people will burn out. They are sacrificing their free time to deal with trolls, shills, putins guys and receive no compensation for that.

    So maybe … let’s don’t replicate Reddit? Let’s focus on creating small, helpful communities and people will come.














  • Ich finde diese Vorstellung überhaupt etwas absurd, dass die “Korrektheit” unserer Sprache am Rechtschreibrat oder am Duden hängen soll. Als ob die Entscheidung für bestimmte Grammatikformen in so einem Gremium wirklich getroffen werden kann - Sprache ist dafür einfach zu lebendig, zu dynamisch und zu individuell. Dann haben wir ein Greisengremium, was mit Jahren Verspätung bestimmte, höchst populäre Grammatikwendungen “legalisiert” und andere Greise finden das dann auch wieder doof und zu der Genderfrage sagt der Rechtschreibrat nichts.

    Wir wissen natürlich alle, dass auch bei einer “Legalisierung” von Genderformen die ganzen Sprachpuristen das sicherlich nicht akzeptieren und in Zukunft die Klappe halten würden, so sehr sie heute auf den Duden pochen.








  • You should remove old posts & comments from every site you post to on a regular basis. There is no reason for those pictures from 2007 being on Facebook. Your old Twitter comments from 2011 might bit you in the ass in a few years. Nobody in their right mind is looking at your 2014 Instagram posts and you don’t want people out of their right mind seeing those. Why should that comment about Obamas election still be available for the world? Just nuke your old stuff on a regular basis - nobody looks at it and if people are searching through your old posts, they want to harm you.