thesanewriter

thesanewriter, 10 months ago

I’m super excited for all the development here. I’m looking forward for Boost for Lemmy, but I’m also really enjoying wefwef (soon to be Voyager) and the active development is really exciting to me.

thesanewriter, 10 months ago

I think they theoretically can be used well, and I’ve tried to be more reserved in how I use them here on Lemmy, but I agree often times they can become culturally toxic. I’m glad Lemmy has a better culture so far, we’re really building something great here I think.

thesanewriter, 10 months ago

I follow a similar philosophy, except I do downvote the mean but not rule breaking content. While it’s not bad enough to justify removal, I do still want to discourage people being mean on this platform. For most disagreeable opinions, I’ll either move on or reply with my point of view.

thesanewriter, 10 months ago

Can I complain about people complaining about complaining?

thesanewriter, 10 months ago

I wouldn’t mind it, but I think a Discord-like reaction system might be better than the Reddit award system. I’m open though to either or neither.

thesanewriter, 10 months ago

I think the hot algorithm here is weighted better. It pulls up brand new comments on a similar weight to older comments with hundreds of points, which makes people more likely to see and interact with new comments. The Activity and New Comments post sorts also prioritize ongoing discussions, which I think is pretty cool.

thesanewriter, 10 months ago

The captcha and text prompt to join definitely helps. Having those types of simple security measures prevents people from automatically making hundreds of bot accounts, and I think is just as if not more worthwhile than verified emails for making sure that the people here are actual people.

thesanewriter, 10 months ago

It’s also about search engine indexing. It’s happening slowly, but I’ve noticed Lemmy posts are finally beginning to show up in Google/Bing search results. As this trend improves, more people will stumble here by accident and then join out of curiosity.

thesanewriter, 10 months ago

Welcome to the community. I hope you enjoy your time here, I know I have!

thesanewriter, 10 months ago

Now that’s exciting, I’m looking forward to seeing the finished app

thesanewriter, 10 months ago

It seems to be dropping in and out a bit. To be expected after a server version upgrade unfortunately, just give it a bit and it should go back to being more stable.

thesanewriter, 10 months ago

Yeah, I can tell why this is from adhddd.com, it’s all about assertiveness. People with ADHD in general (including myself, to an extent) have trouble with being assertive, so most of the phrases in this chart try to change a meek or mild-mannered response to a more assertive one. I think part of the struggle of life is finding balance because while some of these are generally improvements, others are generally worse, and the difference will depend on the tone you’re going for and the person that you’re sending the email.

thesanewriter, 10 months ago

“Remember Roger? I took him offline so hard he left the industry.”

thesanewriter, 10 months ago

Um, I think someone may have hit you upside the head because it’s obvious and clear that my way is the best.

thesanewriter, 10 months ago

It’s unfortunate to have to go back on a community decision, but it’s more important to keep yourself legally in the clear. Thanks for the transparency, I definitely made the right choice with this instance.

thesanewriter, 10 months ago

This is good news. I’ve noticed you’ve been using the release candidate updates, hopefully, that will make the transition more smooth because the changes to the new version are more minor. Thanks for all the great work you’ve been doing, it’s been nice to see how involved the Lemmy instance admins are.

thesanewriter, 10 months ago

I suppose in this case it would be going on a date to bitch to your date partner about people bitching their exes.

thesanewriter, 10 months ago

Yeah, this happens a lot, especially when I’m tired. Luckily, I usually leave cues for myself so that I remember what I was doing.

thesanewriter, 10 months ago

Most of that except for the last panel. I don’t think any of us would fight for Reddit.

thesanewriter, 10 months ago

A Reddit is when you destroy a social media platform because you’re angry with its users. It’s a common billionaire or wannabe billionaire move.

thesanewriter, 10 months ago

Agreed. I’m under no delusions, when I pirate media I’m stealing. I personally don’t believe it’s immoral to steal from super corporations, especially considering how much they steal from us, but some people disagree and with these types of moral arguments there isn’t a clear right answer. Even still, I think the majority of pirates are willing to pay for software or media when the service is priced well and more convenient than piracy.

thesanewriter, 10 months ago

In most cases the creator doesn’t hold the IP anymore, they signed it over to the platform. I don’t think it’s cool to pirate indy games when you can afford them because in that case the money is genuinely being withheld from the content creator, but in a lot of cases depriving Amazon of $5 for a TV show isn’t going to impact anyone.

thesanewriter, 10 months ago

Most of that traffic is probably lurkers and content consumers. Reddit will continue chugging along for a bit, but the loss of power users and mods is about guaranteed to wither the platform over time.

thesanewriter, 10 months ago

The answer is clearly yes, though it’s a shame, I had hoped Lemmy would avoid spam posts for longer.

thesanewriter, 10 months ago

Indeed. I’m not a super big fan of Capitalism in general, but often times private company owners are at least sensible. Shareholders on the public market have a collective mentality of “MORE MONEY!!!” and some company models just aren’t compatible with that, especially social media companies which are barely profitable to begin with.