It was designed to intentionally slow down

This myth is one of my pet peeves. The rate of typing was not the cause of jamming.

The proximity of sequential typebars was the problem. Two adjacent typebars pressed simultaneously would jam at the very beginning of their stroke. To type adjacent keys, the first key would have to retract completely before the second key could start to be pressed. Otherwise, they struck eachother in flight.

Put 3 or 4 bars between sequential letters, and their “flight” paths only intersect at the very end of their strokes: you can start pressing the second key before the first has even hit the paper, because it will bounce out of the way before the second one gets close. QWERTY enabled good typists to have three or four typebars “in flight” simultaneously, greatly increasing their rate of typing.

QWERTY wasn’t designed to slow down typists. It enabled them to type much faster.

Your conclusions are correct, of course: It’s not great for modern devices where keystrokes don’t interfere with eachother. It’s just the oft-repeated “intentionally slow down typists” claim that drives me nuts.

It’s even dumber than expecting you can have a child from anal sex.

I’m not nearly as sure of this today as I was before the election.

They are on reddthat.com. “Local” would show them posts from reddthat.com communities; it would not show them posts from lemmy.world communities.

Suppose a post on a lemmy.world community is downvoted by the fediverse in general. However, that same post is highly popular among reddthat.com users, for whatever reason.

This user would like that post to appear high in reddthat.com/all, even though it would not appear high on lemmy.world/all.

The idea is kinda interesting. “all” is not the right category for it, but the idea of instance-peer curation has merit.

14/f/under your floorboards

Translation: Either “FBI” or “40/m/under your floorboards”