Welcome! Glad you're liking it.

The big complaints that people tend to have are that federation is a bit confusing, and that it's no where near as big as Reddit. They're both valid, and probably won't change any time soon.

But I think sometimes people overlook the positive aspects of federation and smaller communities. Reddit is damn near unusable these days, and it's full of bots, slop, reposters, ads, and power tripping admins/mods. The Fediverse has been around for quite a few years now and still feels like a place for actual human beings with a lot of freedom to take things in different directions.

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.

@aurynn I likely would. It'd go with my Coromandel one.

@jwildeboer At least they offer the series as video-on-demand rather than as a live stream. But I'm guessing they've already got that idea in the works.

Related; I cannot look at “pH” without thinking of the words of the wise prophet Childish Gambino:

“I got penthouses on both coasts; ph balance”

Remember to thank all the community moderators and admins that tirelessly take the spammy, horrible and bot posts out to the trash for us, so we can have this nice space without being overrun by the trash!

CLOSE THE DOOR we’re hot boxing the place

@cwebber Gay Image Manipulation Program

@nullagent so, Mike Johnson scheduled it for rush hour, knowing traffic would be bad. And some got stuck in traffic extra long bc of a traffic accident.
They all should have prioritized it that day and ensured he was removed, even jailed.

@davidgerard Nice euphamism, “He Titaned the company with his submersible.”

@llamasoft_ox I know only about black cats ... I am not sure about rats ...

@KekunPlazas c'est vraiment nul de sa part

@verge will their AI do it?

@wilpercy

Will! You have appeared at a fortuitous moment. My BiL lives in and teaches English in Japan. I'm thinking of going to hang out with him for a week or two in June next year (Nagoya) and would absolutely love to know absolutely everything about Japan, every single thing I possibly need to know, all of the language, and also just every possible conceivable thing. Can you tell me this in the space of one or two sentences? Thanks in advance.

Godzilla doesn’t say “roar” he says “SKREEEEEEEOOOONK!!!”

https://bsky.app/profile/bonnnt.bsky.social/post/3n22xz3yehc25

protip: if you want to feel like an absolute genius here, all you have to do is read the actual articles before going to the comments.

Welcome!