Agreed. I probably should have given spoilers.

It’s a signage display.

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In my experience, street names, especially on major roads, often don’t appear until you zoom right in - usually to the point of the road width basically filling the screen.

Why won’t you show me the street name

This is by far my greatest frustration with it.

Lemmy can certainly be used like an old school forum with federation disabled in the settings. The developers even made a phpBB-like front-end for it: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmyBB