Landrin201

She's not 100% for me, but I think that's because "the most beautiful woman imaginable" is a very subjective description that will get different people to evoke radically different images in their minds, no matter what physical traits get described.

It pisses me off that 6 ultra-wealthy people disappear in a sub that they got in FOR FUCKING FUN turns into an international story and caused taxpayer dollars from multiple countries to go into searching for them. Even though, once again, this was entirely optional for them and they knew the risks going in, and in fact paid for those risks. It's been the focus of a large part of the internet for 2 days now, and the news won't shut up about it.

Meanwhile, a boat carrying hundreds of migrants crashed 3 days ago, HUNDREDS of people are dead, and the news treats it as a footnote. It isn't getting talked about by half the threads on reddit and lemmy. Nobody is posting long, concerned posts about how it's "so awful" people are talking poorly about the migrants. Those people were trying to get a better life and they just get ignored, but some dude decides he wants to pay 500k to take his son to the fucking titanic because that seems cool and suddenly it's an I ternational search and rescue effort at the bottom of the goddamn ocean

We badly need laws defining digital property rights, especially as it relates to accounts.

Regardless of whether you think it's "stupid" or not, some people do collect reddit avatars, and have paid lot of money in pursuit of doing so. I don't think that reddit should be able to just yank the rug out from under them unless they go out of business as a company.

Especially not when reddit has deliberately marketed these avatars to the kind of people who would start collecting them, then deliberately encouraged those people to contue spending money.

It's like a casino letting you gamble all night, then selling you you're not allowed to cash any of it out at the end of the night because the floor manager decided they don't like your tie. You didn't break any rules, but now you're out a bunch of money. And in the case of reddit, there's no recourse, unlike the casino. Because companies are allowed to create terms of service agreements which specifically prohibit you from suing them in real court or forming class action lawsuits they can financially exploit you however they want with no repercussions

No no that turns into a hentai game not a bird game

Engagement is what makes or breaks a social media platform, especially in it's early days.

Right now, anything that boosts engagement is 100% good IMO. that will help retain users and attract more.

Not a doctor, but here's a great video about just such an incident: https://youtu.be/J3HivpHP-5I

Pretty! Any idea what species? I'm terrible at identifying bugs...

I wish some of these subs would stand their ground and make the admin replace them. That would cause the admin seven bigger headaches down the line, because a lot of the mods they impose would likely not be as good, not be as committed, and would be less strict in moderation, leading to a big pain for advertisers who suddenly would see lots of content next to their ads that is very not good.

I agree with your point about the difference between the lemmy and mastodon websites; lemmy could do a significantly better job attracting more users if it changed the welcome page to make the more familiar features clearer.

At the end of the day, federation isn't the important part here IMO. Lemmy is still a social media platform, and social media rides or dies on engagement. Without users, there isn't engagement. I know that tiny communities can exist for years just fine online, and that lemmy did so with a very small user base. But, if people on here seriously want a true alternative to other social media, that alternative needs to show that it has enough engagement to keep people coming back.

To me it's much more important to show prospective users that the tools for engaging with the sited platform are familiar and easy to use, than it is to dive into the details of how federation works. The average user simply won't care about federation unless it directly affects them.

And frankly, those old internet forums went out of style for a good reason. It was annoying to have 10 accounts to keep track of on 10 different social media sites. I don't think anyone today would say that signing up or distinct forums that fo us on topics you care about is a true alternative to big social media like reddit. The way lemmy talks about itself right now makes it seem like you're back on the old forum system, when the whole point of federation is exactly the opposite of that! This FIXES the "you need 10 accounts" problem for the most part. At the end of the day, people want to know that a thing is easy to use and understand, and that other people with similar interests are using it.

They see poor people as inherently bad parents. They want ways to take away poor minority children from their parents, and lunch debt is a great way to get them on the radar for that.

I have a Samsung phone so I use their modes and routines.

I only really use 2 (4, really, since you need activators/deactivators). The first turns my wifi off when I leave the area around my house and on when I enter it, so I don't lose battery searching for wifi. The second turns extra dim on at night and off in the morning.

I use sleep mode and driving mode and that's really it. I haven't found any other uses for modes/routines that I really felt were necessary.

I wish I could set one to restart the phone every night but Samsung doesn't let you.

Join us in c/wheeloftime! More engagement is always good