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Cake day: June 26th, 2023

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  • I can’t speak for other people, but if lemmy.world were to shut down today I’d just pick another server.

    I will admit, it was confusing and almost turned me off at first. I was very upset about the whole deal with third party apps on Reddit. My daughter gave me the whole email analogy and it cleared my hesitation to join Lemmy.

    I don’t know how it is today, but I had to apply to join world when I first got on. It would be awesome if an app would sign a person up for, say, three different servers and sync settings between them. Something goes down, wouldn’t even notice.

    Assholes ruin everything though and making it easier for bot accounts to exist would end badly.

    I don’t know.

    When I first got on here it was a mess. It didn’t work half the time and when it did no content was being generated. I stuck it out though and I’m glad I did.

    I’m definitely not the right person to come up with any solutions.


  • Man. You just gave me an idea (which would matter if I wasn’t a complete idiot).

    Instead of servers that all attempt to be a sort of clone of Reddit, servers could focus on content similar to the way subreddits work.

    So you’d join any one of these servers and federate with other servers just like now, only content would be focused between servers.

    Example:

    This server is a games server. It has /c/games, /c/fallout, /c/vintagegaming, etc.

    This server will focus on news and politics. It has /c/worldnews, /c/marketnews, etc.

    Sure, it would still have the issue of being fractured, but it would narrow it down so much that it would be more appealing and easier to navigate.

    It’s probably too late for that.

    Ultimately, I’m happy with the fediverse. Algorithms aren’t dictating what I see. There’s no profit incentive that will lead to bad decisions, so when bad decisions are made, folks will talk about it and come to a solution.

    I miss old Reddit, but it’s gone.



  • What REALLY pisses me off is that feeling that I’m being fucked. My ass has been pulled around to the front like a fucking contortionist and they fucked it right in my face.

    Every email with the “stop fascism” this, and “stop fascism” that with the goddamn donate button like they’re actually doing anything to stop it OR that they actually believe it in the first place. You know what? They don’t. It’s politics as usual for these people.

    Trump skipped Joe Biden’s inauguration.

    These assholes are always pretending to be the good guys, he gave them a free pass to skip his inauguration when he went on and on about the election being stolen. Or, I don’t know, when he had them all running for their lives on January 6.

    Seeing all of the former presidents sitting there at his inauguration (including Bush, who by the way has said out loud that the man is a threat to democracy) legitimized his position and everything looked like no big deal to all of the people who aren’t paying attention.

    It lends legitimacy to the claim that people are experiencing some derangement syndrome when everybody comes to the big party and it appears to be business as usual.

    And you know what? It mostly is. At least to them.

    These are a rare breed of people who are nasty enough to seek power in the first place. They get it by being two faced. They get it by exaggerating their feelings. They get it by calling a fellow human being whatever nasty name they can think of and then turn right around and shake his hand with their fake smiles and their suits that cost more than my car.

    I. Am. Done.

    I’m done responding to them with donations. I’m done being bombarded with cries of threats that they don’t take seriously except to say what they need to say to raise funds.

    I’m staying out of it. I’ll vote for the lesser of two narcissists/egos when it’s time to do that.

    As others have said. It’s time for a progressive party.

    This isn’t the time of magazines and newspapers telling folks who to vote for. If the internet can’t make a viable third party stand a chance I don’t know what can.








  • Not OP, but I promise you that I can hear what sounds like digital water being thrown over the cymbals when listening to mp3 files below 320 kbps. Even then, every now and then I hear that sound here and there across whatever record I’m listening to.

    I don’t experience it when listening to records, CDs, or cassettes.

    My hearing used to be very sensitive. When the whole world was using CRTs, I could tell you who had their tv on just standing outside their house.