L0rdMathias

joined 2 years ago
[–] L0rdMathias 3 points 3 days ago

"About half of people would be unwilling to engage in relationships with people they don't share the same viewpoint on relationships as they do." This and more breaking news at 11.

[–] L0rdMathias 3 points 3 days ago

It's generally known and well understood that bribery is a method one can use to show their appreciation.

People take issue with the inevitable structural shortcomings that are inherent to its function. No one cares about the specific vessel of action that was used.

[–] L0rdMathias 5 points 3 days ago

Disable echolocation and reenable visuals.

[–] L0rdMathias 30 points 6 days ago (5 children)

Just a quick FYI, you know nit-picking a small grammar error in the title, hardly noticable.

The "Re-" prefix generally implies that the thing had previously existed.

[–] L0rdMathias 1 points 6 days ago

Here's a list of the beings that live inside of me.

One is an energy being whose sole traits is that it can only live outside.

Grandma did you forget your meds again?

[–] L0rdMathias 23 points 6 days ago (2 children)

It's almost as though this labyrinth has been designed to extract subscriptions from desparate men and women, and actually has no intention of delivering the promised service.

[–] L0rdMathias 17 points 1 week ago

YOURE the burger king not them. Look at them playing with their kids meal toys... It's your crown you know. No no it's -- yeeeesssssss it is mine and I am the only one fit to be king of burgers. Take it!

[–] L0rdMathias 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It is ultimately the same format which does not yield constructive conversation. The conversation is as though OP were speaking on a stage making their statement/announcement and then the audience yells back to them. It functions for some things, most notably sharing popular news - not necessarily journalism, just a glimpse through the eyes of the zeitgeist; dank memes are a form of good news by this definition. It does not function for discussion oriented conversation, since most people don't read the whole thread. The implementation of up and down votes manipulate conversational integrity in weird ways Though that will occur with any type of rating system, I believe the simplicity of the reddit style system yields conversational benefits that are less valuable than how cheap it is to implement. A cheap hack of a system will yield a cheap shoddy output. This leads me to believe a better method exists, we just haven't found it yet.

The emphasis on user control and instance freedom is novel and appreciated, but it has come with a reckless disregard for the dangers of the nowadays well understood echo chamber effect of current social media. There are zero safeguards to prevent Lemmy from shattering itself under any amount of external stress or internal corruption. Organized attacks are a major threat, and there is a nonzero chance of that happening.

Again, all of these are just like long term weaknesses in the structure itself. It doesn't mean it IS going to fail, it doesn't mean things can't be mitigated, I just don't trust that it will stand for a very long time nor will it reach the significance of reddit. Could be wrong, but it looks like Lemmy is capable only of moving around the problems with Reddit instead of being able to actively quell them.

[–] L0rdMathias 3 points 1 week ago (3 children)

No and not really. Reddit is just past its expiration date. I believe Lemmy suffers from a lot of the same systemic issues and that will prevent it from becoming an actual long term solution. It's just the alpha version. It's better than the prototype, but it's still built on the same fundamentals and will likely suffer a similar type of failure.

[–] L0rdMathias 3 points 1 week ago

Bring back the golden age of the translucent/orange Mac all in one.

[–] L0rdMathias 1 points 1 week ago

It's wild how effective these camera filters are at removing blemishes nowadays.

[–] L0rdMathias 3 points 1 week ago

To build off this comment; it's likely the result of careless design. It is possible to code applications to avoid this issue, but it is technically a Firefox specific issues so it's not something a mobile developer would default to consider.

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