CynAq

Agreed.

It's kinda similar to what I dislike about CMV but blatant. I think CMV created this whitewashing effect on horrible opinions by presenting them as a discussion against them, while giving them a megaphone into the mainstream.

UnpopularOpinions is similar but a bit more honest, I guess, lol!

I don't understand how having third party apps prevents reddit form lying about their user stats.

Do you mean paywalling API access makes it more difficult for third party analysis tools to detect bots vs real users, or something like that?

They didn't reverse it in the sense that they went back to human operators. They got rid of the AI by getting rid of the service altogether by the looks of things.

I don't have any intention of going back to reddit, or any other corporate platform for community building.

It looks like ActivityPub based platforms gained enough momentum between them to push it into self sustaining.

Lemmy, kbin, beehaw, mastodon, pixelfed, calckey all seem to have enough activity to keep most users engaged, except maybe the super dopamine addicted.

They want security for them and against everyone else.

It doesn't look like the rule is from the event organizers. Most likely local government who want's the money from the event while keeping the turnover high so that people will come, spend their money, and fuck off as soon as possible.

Helping everyone according to their needs and letting them live as they like vs using any means necessary to establish hegemony over people not in your group, isn't a difference of opinion.

It's a quite literal life vs death struggle.

Yup!

Cheetahs are the fastest land animal for top speed and almost all fours legged animal is de facto faster than us. But two things we can do best, being smart (noticing patterns, imagination and language) and walking, we do mind bogglingly better than our nearest competition.

Those two go together.

Opposable thumbs and the brain power to use hands evolved earlier in hominids. Our line of the ancestry kept getting smarter and smarter with brains that required more and more energy as our ancestors kept evolving. To feed their enormously powerful brain, the species needed to make the body as efficient as possible, which led to our feet changing to support bipedal locomotion, which enabled our long distance hiker superpower through more efficient energy usage compared to four legged walking, even though four can go much faster, and left our hands free to do whatever we want all the time. Our bodies lost almost all hair, and evolved to sweat excessively, which gave us the ability to keep cool while we literally walked large animals to death from hyperthermia, simply by walking after them until they dropped dead.

He is a friggin narcissist on a power trip. Today he openly started idolizing Elon Musk and praised him for making Twitter super cost effective or something. Basically sucking his dick for firing a bunch of people and cutting costs.

They want people to not be there, at least for long.

True, but that's why I said we should direct people to instances with a stable stream of content and large enough number of regular users.

I'm on kbin.social, and there's absolutely no shortage of content. The hot page always has content posted within two hours and as people comment on and boost threads, they more or less constantly update.

Ending up in a slow instance is a negative user experience, sure, but it isn't exactly complicated. It's no different than ending up on a dead sub on reddit.

Preach it.

I recently started studying social psychology, and sadly the main takeaway from my initial venture into the field is a confirmation of how unaware and automated the average person is.

Middle managers, marketers and the average customer are all caught up in a perpetual feedback loop, constantly enabling each other's addictions. It doesn't help that these demographics overlap as managers and marketers are customers of other marketers and managers, turning the feedback loop into a vicious cycle.