I can’t give you what you’re looking for, but the great part about challenges like this is that they are real problems to solve with input data to deal with.

You might try reorienting yourself, then. Instead of trying to teach your students the perceived “point” of each problem, use the problems to teach them about common design patterns and any algorithm that might apply that they don’t already know about. It’s not necessary to present the “best” solution and algorithm to each problem and only teach that, in other words.

I used one from a couple of years ago to practice dealing with first class functions. Would’ve been wildly inefficient at run time, but I had a fun time returning functions from functions and trying to use that to make really modular, overengineered code. And I feel I have a better grasp of that concept because of that experience even though it probably wasn’t how that problem was intended to be solved or even a good solution to it by any stretch.

Wow I always new I hated Calibri but looking at it up close REALLY made me hate it. I don’t know what it is about that font but I just can’t stand it.

But this doesn’t make any sense at all. Defederation is like… the main power afforded to us by creating a federated system. It’s practically the only way instances can actually make themselves unique because it’s the only power they have compared to their Reddit counterparts.

Defederation can’t possibly “not be normal” because otherwise the system of instances and joining your favorite one becomes a complete illusion.

Like imagine this. The Reddit admins set site wide rules and the Reddit moderators set rules for their subreddits. Each user must follow the site and sub rules or have their content removed or account suspended, in the case of a site rule violation. Now, the fediverse is different than that. People posting in a community in lemmy.world are only responsible for the rules of that community and for that instance. But their content also affects other instances who might have stricter rules.

And what are the admins to do about that? The one issue which faces federated sites that doesn’t affect Reddit and it just so happens to be solved by the single moderation tool which the fediverse gets which Reddit doesn’t.