On the flip side when I encounter this offline it's someone who's so disillusioned they can't even bother to figure out how to describe themselves politically (and I don't blame them). Not to invalidate what you're saying because I've noticed it as well, but to give some hope that some of the kids are alright

Most weed sucks now

I don't care that it has 30% THC, it feels bad

Real weed has curves (in the distribution of cannabinoids)!

My theory on the first one is that it's usually hard to make things cheap and consistent, so it often starts off as bad, then good but expensive, and then trends towards and past "good enough"

Modern music is fire when you know where to look but I've always felt like pop music has been taking a very slow weird turn. It seems like 1970s and earlier it was mostly good, and mostly good after, but at this point I'm just confused

Strong agree on the first, and on the second VR is like most over-hyped technology: useful and unique, but not for the reasons people believe

Has there been any work / planning around an ability for third parties to setup broadcast servers to help distribute the load? I know that kind of thing is extremely difficult but maybe it would be a reasonable effort for handling read only requests. I haven't had a chance to look into lemmy's architecture yet so not sure if this is a valid question or not :)

Fwiw I still buy phones based on the headphone jack

I'm a tech hipster and direct audio is flat out, tight, my humans

Although I'm perfectly willing to admit cordless is better for most people's use cases and I do own a pair of wireless headphones for that reason

Sending reinforcements

Y'all gonna feel wholesome today

Schrodinger's troll!

Judgement is best left to the reader :)

I've been waiting for another aggregator / tree comment community to form with enough popularity to sink time into. Once I started getting awkward combative messages on a regular basis in even niche subs I recognized Reddit had reached the end of its use for me. Online pop culture is toxic as hell and being on reddit since the near beginning it was pretty obvious how that was seeping in

Not that reddit was ever a great place, but it was at least silly, and informative

It helps prevent hivemind mentality and keeps us growing. Unpopular opinions often have ideas worth examining or could be outright correct despite common wisdom saying otherwise, and forums like these are one of the best places for us to engage with those facts. There's also times when an opinion we like dislike is misinformed, and rather than send it to the bottom, it's good to explain how it's wrong for both our own sake (refining our arguments) and bystanders that haven't given the topic much thought.

But if someone left a turd, send that stank to the bottom!

Firefox, for tree style tabs, and to push back against homogenization of the web.