depressed_submissive

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yes please 😊

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don’t know what will actually end up working, but I hope we try something new soon.

Personally I don't think there is a one-size-fits-all solution. Each problem needs a different approach. We need to figure out how to have all these systems work in tandem.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is going to be a total noob (and thus stupid) question, but is it possible to selfhost a vpn?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I take the occasional peek to see if it imploded yet. I do miss certain communities. Only last week I was looking for some info on a historical subject. Google turned up nothing so I wanted to r/askHistorians. I hate they decided to stay on reddit and don't switch to lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I do not feel thirsty nor do I feel when to stop eating. I also have trouble pinpointing where I feel pain. I feel it but can only tell you the general area. I have problems with balance and not sure if this falls under interoception but I see 3 images. My left eye, right eye and the composite. Edp when tired.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Is he scraping the barrel or just short of loose change?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I get that, but it is irrational. They can plan such a thing, esp. when they do it in ~~concord~~ consort. Just prepopulate the new lemmy communities with some content, ask some regulars/power-posters to become active first. Then setup a site that simplifies the signing-up tot lemmy/kbin and make a big announcement before you abandon reddit. Sure, at first the amount of people will decline. But as Reddit will have problems assigning new mods to all those big subreddits the quality over there will go down further. It won't be an easy or even fast switch, but sometimes it's best to just start over.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I just don't understand why mods form big, popular subreddits don't switch over to lemmy/kbin/whatever? If it is sunk cost fallacy that is irrational. They have a big following, all they have to do is say "hey guys, we are moving to another site. Go to sign up." If it is because (as some people suggest, not me) they are power-hungry mods and fear losing that power, it is also irrelevant since they can host their own instance and have all the power they want. If they could organize a blackout, surely they can organize an exodus? What am I missing?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You know... I don't understand why AI would need access to an API. Can't they just crawl the web? HTML5 was designed with AI in mind iirc. But I'm no expert so I'll probably talk bs here.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

'the best' is subjective. Yes, tumblr still exists and perhaps has a second life. But the spirit of the old tumblr is gone. Same applies to Reddit. It's not the name or the site that died but its personality. Twitter is a good example. It died a few years ago, slowly. It is still around but what made twitter twitter is no more. It changed, it has another atmosphere and other types of users. It is still called twitter but that is like a son who has the same name as his father. Two different persons.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm wondering/imagining. Did he walk into a diy store to get that thing himself or did one of his employees do it? Did he buy it an hour before or a day before? What goes through one's mind to think "I'll go buy a sink and have my picture taken with it, that'll be funny". Was there a meeting about this?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

I have trouble wrapping my mind around the fact the is some sort of market value to be had by paying 42,000 per month to twitter.

 

We just don't smell the rot yet. It's not about the actual body (website) and the name. It is about the spirit, the personality. And that has been compromised and killed off because of factors one could call enshittification or whatever. Digg and Tumblr still exist, at least in name, but not in spirit. I think Reddit has past that threshold. It will be a slow death and I am not sure the fediverse will fill the void it leaves behind. But I do think and believe communities will never sustain on venture capital.

 

Sorry if this is obvious, but I fail to find where I can donate to fmhy. I see the support button on top, but that donates to lemmy if I'm not mistaken? How/where do I donate to you guys directly?

 

With Reddit, and perhaps also Twitter. Personally I deleted my accounts on both platforms and came here today, because I feel it was the moral thing to do. And I hope both platforms will burn down, and the new way forward is more community-driven social media instead of capitalist-driven. But realistically I think both will just slowly get worse in terms of quality (well, twitter doesn't have much quality content for a while now anyway) and muddle through for a while. In the end it could go either way I think? What are your thoughts on where those platforms will end up, realistically?

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