We know… we were there.

They don’t need to know the details, no, but the new user experience – especially on Mastodon-based websites – can be very confusing without at least a basic understanding of the syndication-based nature of the place. Lemmy and Piefed aren’t quite so bad about it, you can see the Local or All feed by default when going to your website of choice, but also because users coming from Reddit have been used to having an empty main feed if they haven’t subscribed to anything yet, while Twitter has been providing an algorithmic feed of “for you” content for a while now.

And because the Mastodon developers seem to very badly want to obfuscticate the nature of the network, and want “Mastodon” itself to be the title character, and not any particular masto-based website, the default that users get is their subscription feed, and not the Local feed.

People think Mastodon is dead, because it doesn’t work the way they expect.

This was especially bad during the Twitter exmigration, because people just joined whatever random Mastodon-based website they came across, and were trying to find each other again, and didn’t understand how searching for users on other websites worked. They seemed to think it was dumb that their website wasn’t aware of users on a completely different website, where the only thing they had in common was that they were running the same website engine.

People coming from highly curated environments need to know at least a little bit about how the whole system works in order to embrace the system. Otherwise, they interpret the limitations are arbitrary.

cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/37870004

reddit got bad because spez (the reddit admin) restricted API access to the platform for third-party apps, such that people would be forced to use the official app or web UI, both of which display advertisement and collect user data (e.g. scroll behavior).

the reason why this happened is because reddit is a for-profit company and tries to extract money out of the userbase, at the expense of the users.

another example of a bad decision that reddit made was to push a lot of ragebait (“Am I The Asshole?”) because company shareholders want to see “engagement numbers” go up, and if somebody writes an angry reply to a post, that’s “engagement”. but it makes you angry at the stupidity of the “Asshole”, so it makes your day worse. that is another example how reddit makes money at the expense of the users.

size (number of monthly active users) is not what made reddit bad. commercialization is.

we should probably get rid of the “don’t make lemmy grow, it will ruin the platform if we grow” idea.

... invokes another helper to init some counters & other properties (bandwidth ratio via another helper) for the DeadLine scheduler, inits more properties (some via a helper, & a couple more in turn) if fair-group scheduling's compile-time enabled, invokes a couple more helpers if compile-time enabled to retrieve a timesamp it stores & to init some more RT properties, sets the next scheduling class to be the idling one, sets various other properties, creates a list for the CFS, ...

2/3?

God damn starbucks is so sad we need wealth redistribution

@ottaross ours weren’t too bad. Wife and I felt a little off for a day or two and had a very sore arm for one night. But all short lived.

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#friction shiped 1.0 yesterday, #gnomeos ships the new animations in Settings today. Coincidence?

@mcc That is also my understanding, and what I recall is also the implementation in various kernel sources (including Linux). mmap is not malloc, operates on independent pages, and munmap is not required to use only values returned by a previous mmap. You can even munmap pages which were present at process launch, and never explicitly mmap'd.

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@mcc Several that I know of have proprietary languages, but a lot are simply HPGL and the interfaces are serial, and you can literally pipe the HPGL text saved from Inkscape onto the USB TTY file at least on Linux. The Silhouette has a plugin for Inkscape, but say, the Cricut you'd have to gut the electronics entirely and figure that out

@refactoredd Yeah two friends played our campaign on Switch 2 and had a great time with it

@toemat Credit to Karim on Makerworld. I then *gasp* used AI to extract some of the item assets from the game to add a little extra flair https://makerworld.com/en/models/3136930-big-walk

The promise of the Fediverse is not, has never been, and should never be read as, global, universal cross-communication. It is a network of social media networks, where small websites can syndicate like content with other small websites they want to share with.

This idea of sharing everything everywhere all at once is kind of a degenerate state,caused by a low population, and fueled by twenty years of people using absolutely unconsciencely huge social sites that have swallowed the web.

It should not be the end goal.

It probably shouldn’t be the start goal, but it’s too late for that.

Smaller sites, where people can build community, recognize and know each other, and create some kind of truly shared space, while also being able interact with tertiaty content of the same type outside the primary network is the promise of the fediverse.

You’re functionally complaining that, because your email client doesn’t play Tiktok videos, they have bith betrayed the promise of the Internet.

There might be some kind of case to be made that reddit did get too big for what it was, but lemmy won't have to worry about that until it's at least a hundred times its present size.

Reddit was always shitty from when

• The only reason the jailbait sub came down was do to main stream media pressure - if you missed jailbait was a “SFW” sub for posting reveling photos of other people’s children to be gooned over. It was voted “Subreddit of the year” in 2008

• the mod who ran jailbait was an ICON on reddit for years and he also modded dozens of other equally questionable subs

• The insane redditor backlash to them banning FatPeopleHate sub - which for those who missed it was a sub dedicated to posting photos of overweight people without their knowledge so the internet could mock them. This was mostly made up of - yes you guessed it - mostly photos of fat women getting mocked.

• Leaving up the BeatingWomen sub that is specifically for posting videos of women getting beat up for 10+ more years after jailbait came down.

• leaving up the Creepshots sub, a sub dedicated to upskirt and down-shirt photos of unsuspecting women, for YEARS and only taking it down due to to it hitting the main stream news and forcing their hand. This sub was also modded by the Jailbait mod.

• the RAMPANT sexism and racism as thinly veiled intellectualism that has gone on for DECADES

• Ghislaine Maxwell was a moderator on worldnews - I cannot back this claim up so I am removing it.

The API thing and forced logins is probably one of the least shitty things this site has done.

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@ClickyMcTicker Yeah! Every Friday night for a few weeks