I’ve tried both [Lemmy and PieFed], and the UX is incredibly unintuitive and unpleasant. The main problem is that it’s quite hard to discover content you want while avoiding content you don’t, Bluesky at least has really good custom feeds that are easy to add (the default feed sucks). Another big issue is the general site layout, it’s hard to figure out how to do things as simple as saving a post for later or how to go back to the feed without being redirected back to the post I’m trying to exit.

Maybe they didn’t see the “Feeds” feature in PieFed? The top navigation menus in PieFed are a bit messy. Although shareable blocklists could be cool too, or maybe toxic?

That’s excluding the horrible lack of contrast most frontends use, which makes reading and parsing the site elements unnecessarily difficult (no Lemmy, grey text on a grey background is not good for readability).

I like the Lemmy colors, but maybe it should be easier to change, because they might like the darkly-pureblack theme.

Fediverse feels slower, but not in a good way. More of a ‘if I don’t use this for a week, I’ll see new things’. If I log in after 2 or 3 days, I’ll scroll for 10 minutes and see the stuff I saw last time.

Maybe this is a UX issue of not finding the right feed they would like.

I also want nsfw stuff now and then. I hate how censored the internet has become, at least with reddit if I want to see a bit of porn, I can.

Again maybe a UX issue of not presenting what communities they could subscribe to.

I tried twice to join those forums within the Fediverse and I can’t get past the captcha test. The fact that you need approval to validate your access doesn’t seem designed to encourage you to recommend it.

The captchas on Lemmy are AWFUL, I can’t do them either.

(that’s the “Medium” difficulty)

Lemmy v1.0 is adding the ability to do invites, so maybe there will be an invite-only instance that gets some momentum, that could be cool. Invite sites seems like a cool old-internet type of culture.

The fediverse stuff is way too complicated for me, Reddit is very easily accessible and actually has active communities for the topics I’m interested in.

Of course these are naturally going to be all negative because they’re users that bounced off the Threadiverse, but there’s probably hints to what can be improved

People on Instagram cheering on Poland wanting a US military base, like the US didn’t ignore an entire god damn destabilising attack on Poland’s grid only a year ago.

I can’t believe that “Ötzi” hasn’t become a generic metaphor for something that you find far beyond its use-by date in the freezer.

“I went looking for my Tupperware and found it in the freezer. It had Chicken Ötzi and rice in it. I haven’t cooked that since July.

@evan yes, that's what I was remembering, thank you.

I know this isn't the correct avenue for feedback, but the link you gave me implies that similar to mention, hashtag is a Link superset, not an Object one. Which makes my previous ramblings somewhat moot.

Is that going to be the final decision? I feel like a lot of the fediverse currently represents hashtags, when they do that, as supersets of Object, not Link, but maybe I missed when a transition was made...

This was kinda obvious right at the start of the bubble.

It's too variable, unreliable, and nondeterministic to truly improve productivity.

Mass-automating mediocrity in both coding and media destroys value and doesn't create it.

Sabotaging education and knowledge work will, in the long term, cause serious economic harm, but in the present it's providing hot air for a bubble

“No Signs of AI Payoff Outside the Tech Sector | The Daily Spark”

https://www.apollo.com/wealth/insights-news/insights/daily-spark/no-signs-of-ai-payoff-outside-the-tech-sector?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

> Despite massive investments and widespread hype around artificial intelligence, the technology has delivered zero financial payoff to corporate America outside of tech.

@lanodan @p @bugbear run away with the money it got from futo and vet future sponsors a lot better, for starters

Die JU interessiert es nicht, dass das Grundgesetz einen Einsatz der Bundeswehr im Inneren explizit verbietet. Im Chor mit der "Bild" nutzt sie die Angst vor Protesten wie in Frankreich, um einen Ausnahmezustand in Deutschland herbeizuhyperventilieren. Beobachtung durch den Verfassungsschutz wann?