True… but that sounds nowhere near as funny 🤣
True… but that sounds nowhere near as funny 🤣
How quickly we forget the lessons that Battlestar Galactica tried to instill in us… :-D
Far less than on Reddit, but it still affects someone’s experiences. e.g. just bc someone does not experience something daily does not mean that it never happens, but often a person in a minority status group has no choice to ignore such, while the privileged status person can.
Or dinner, depending on your politics I suppose… 😜
It can be, depending on your level of imagination… and skill.:-)
Video games can encourage violence, if you make sure to play the right ones (College Humor Mario endless bouncing koopa)
Hence why the mirrored version definitely does not represent a “natural” storm.
Alternatively, they are homeless and have to keep moving to avoid the coppas. 🐦➡️👮
That’s the idea. Right now most mainstream audiences seem to prefer X to moving away from that, but it sure would be nice to have alternative options. Such as Mbin that will check both Mastodon and Lemmy instances.
Oh dear I didn’t even think of that 🫠. LET THE MURDER GAMES COMMENCE! 🔪 (I’ll offer you a 2s head start, beginning… NOW!)
Speaking of, I saw a post today that lead me to check out Reddit for the first time in months… damn we sure do have much more friendly conversations here! It’s enough to make me forget all the years of toxicity there, towards the end. 🙃
Hehe caveats definitely apply, like if you are talking to someone only over the phone, then maybe don’t say that one 😜 😉.
But it’s a good thought.
I suppose it depends on your goals - for a child or pet, is it okay to lie to them or simply force the issue, whereas for an adult human, how far should someone go to remove from them the consequences of their own actions?
Interesting article about the changing language surrounding climate change. Like now it’s starting to become climate emergency/breakdown/crisis, but before any of that it was global warming, and in the 80s apparently it was “inadvertent climate modification”.
Never forget that behind the mobs is a controller.
Oh, I naively thought it was included, but I see that it’s a bit controversial. Interesting 🤔.
Just that they are actively recruiting people from STEM.
Most of what made Reddit great was not Huffman’s software but the people that were worth chatting with. Most of those people did not come here, hence the huge lack of niche subjects here by comparison.
Though indeed, even before the whole fuck spez fiasco Reddit was becoming enshittified, as it encouraged people to talk rather than listen - e.g. to make a new post rather than be able to find an existing one. And yes, it also encouraged us to become pedantic assholes, making every one of us defensive - me too.
A fantastic article somewhat related btw: https://medium.com/@max.p.schlienger/the-cargo-cult-of-the-ennui-engine-890c541cebcb, highlighting that social media becomes what the vision of the developers makes it to be. From the size and position and coloration of the buttons - and which ones, like are downvotes even turned on? - and every little thing, Reddit was doomed to become what it was purely bc of its choice to encourage its own profits at the expense of all else.
A favorite example of mine is that since ads go in-between posts but not comments, Reddit encouraged “more posts”, far more so than “more comments”, and not at all searching for existing posts, e.g. they only allowed 2 pinned posts, not 5 or 10 or 20 or something, just 2. So in places like r/Android they would have weekly mega threads where people could ask things e.g. “what phone should I buy?”, but rather than help connect people to those mega threads specifically offered for that, the developers forced mods to do the work to try to stem the absolute tsunami of posts all saying “which phone should I buy?” - almost invariably with no other details, each just a child (of whatever mental age) wanting personalized recommendations attention, but thereby halting the ability of people to discuss things related to Android phones, bc how could you get a word mixed in among all that noise?
Even nonprofit social media is still damaging to us, but to a radically lesser degree it would seem, compared to a for-profit one attempting to predate upon e.g. our anxieties.
But… we could always use new memes!?
Maybe something like this:
with the caption "I use Arch btw"😁
It’s a double edged sword, that.
On the one hand, we’re kinda awesome the way we are.:-) Perhaps a bit more content would be good though?
On the other, there’s like 50 people that generate virtually all the content, and they won’t necessarily be able to keep up that pace forever. If we aren’t sustainable, this project will die off. And I don’t mean like cease working, but rather lose our uniqueness, like what happened to Reddit, which technically remember still exists:-).
I hear you about “fully mainstream”, but I think we could stand to grow a bit more. What’s going on with mander.xyz and scientists/academics is awesome:-).
Never once have they known about it already:-).
The horrified looks come on our subsequent visit, and then they refuse to talk about it again. I suppose it’s our dirty secret… that we use Lemmy btw.:-P
One does not normally think of those words appearing together, like “accurate” and “AI”. :-)