This reminds me of the old human psychology trick: try not to think of a pink elephant.
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I think we're just as bored. We may in fact be worse off for having increased our "interest threshold" such that we must seek more and more stimuli in order to stave off boredom.
Doomscrolling is the new boredom.
I sort by new. It seems to work. There's a severe lack of comments, which I am trying to do my part to rectify.
I think about this a lot. I'm so grateful I had the experience of messing with the windows registry and other phenomena of the 90s.
I think it might be a bit of an xy problem. I myself have hoped for the runaway success of the fediverse. But I realized it's not actually some absolute number of users I want. What I want is for the fediverse to have that same "there's a community for anything" that reddit had.
I'm starting to hope the fediverse doesn't get too big now, honestly. There's a certain number of eyeballs that is going to attract people interested in exploiting those eyeballs, and I don't know if the fediverse is robust enough to fight them off as the pot of gold they see begins to overflow. It's hard balance to find. And maybe the decentralized aspect of the fediverse does mean that it can't be fully assimilated by capital, I don't know.
Were living in interesting times.
Rotten.com fucked me up back in the day
I think it's absurd to give Meta the shadow of a benefit of the doubt. in the past, they have explicitly stated their intention to make facebook the internet. If zuck had his way, there would be exactly one website, a monolith collecting your data to more efficiently serve you ads. There is no world in which their participation in the fediverse is not self serving and a net loss for the rest of us.
I still use soulseek, been using it for nearly 20 years at this point
I'll probably still occasionally visit reddit because there are some subs I am in that are just such mature communities, they are still a useful resource.
That being said, I LOVE the old school web vibes of Lemmy. I love the lack of ads. I didn't realize how much I really missed the pre MAANG internet. It wasn't until Lemmy began to fill the void that I realized it was there, and it is so fucking exciting having some of that wild west energy back.
The child should have bought 3 bottles of milk.
I wonder if it would work if you spoofed your user agent.