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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • You would think the Internet and access to an unprecedented amount of information would have made us smarter, more emphatic, and so on.

    But it turns out people are easily misled and manipulated. Social media quickly starts to feed you more of the same crap just because you watched one video. Village idiots can now form echo chambers with like-minded individuals, e.g flat Earth believers.

    Those who want power will take advantage of people who fall into all this.



  • Exactly. The amount of /r/adviceanimals level pure shit content on Reddit is high, paired with the bots that repost things until they start hocking some crypto bullshit links.

    But I have kept using Reddit for years because every once in a while, you see someone write thoughtful posts about some niche subject you didn’t even know existed. That’s always interesting.

    Lemmy is at a state where it needs more users writing about things that interest them.

    Relay Pro just went to subscription, so the last 3rd party Reddit app is gone. I will probably read Lemmy much more on mobile from now on and hope it picks up steam.






  • Yes I think SSO would be a benefit.

    People are generally used to doing one of these:

    1. “Go to this website and register an account.” This is e.g Reddit.
    2. “Go to this website, register an account and you can access all these other services too”. This is stuff that Meta, Google etc offer via SSO. SSO is largely invisibile to the end user.

    Fediverse at the moment has a lot of “huh, why do different instances have different stuff and why can’t I just access all of that? Oh, I can? But why is it so complicated? Why can’t I just use it from one place?” that is definitely a hindrance to adoption until enough people are there to tell “do it like this” or the system becomes more user friendly and abstracts some of the inconveniences.

    As it is, e.g Lemmy can’t even do pagination right, so there’s still a lot of work to be done before it’s a polished experience.




  • Unfortunately only content. I spent some time subscribing to similar Lemmy communities that I had on Reddit and many of them just don’t have the content yet and I can’t exactly generate it alone.

    You could make the absolute best software platform (not saying Lemmy is it, it’s somewhat buggy), but if people don’t adopt it, it won’t succeed.

    The “winner” is often not the best platform either. WhatsApp is popular but kinda shit, same for Instagram, Tiktok etc. Threads might win over Mastodon for a Twitter replacement, just because it comes from a huge entity like Meta and people can use their existing accounts.

    Unlike Twitter, Reddit has not yet fallen off the deep end where using it on e.g old Reddit on desktop computer is a terrible experience. I think the upcoming months will show if replacing mods etc ends up biting it in the ass.

    With Boost finally closing, I am without Reddit on my phone. I’ll have to see if losing the “let’s browse Reddit a bit on my phone because I’m bored” option does good things for my mental health and daily life overall.