Nope. I mean yes, obviously, but first, we need another hour and a half long process to talk about it. Followed by another to talk about how we feel about the transformation afterwards.
I loved the Sword Art Online Netflix anime that did basically the opposite of that:-).
Speak for yourself! I want it known that *I* for one, am *very* immature!:-P
Ah, that part "without rational grounds to do so" makes such a huge difference doesn't it? :-D
Like e.g.:
Ignoring all the genocide done by Russia, and China, and North Korea, but hyper-focusing on the not even direct but mere indirect aid to the actual genocide-doing people, and even then painting with an extremely broad brush and saying that nobody who thinks otherwise exists within the group on that "other side".
I disagree though that it is directed at "random" people. Hexbears yes (it's kinda their whole thing!:-P), perhaps Lemmygrad.ml too (whose content definitely appears on your instance) - though importantly, Lemmy.World (which this community is based in) defederates from both of those, and has ~80% of the monthly active users btw (thus the userbase "here" only partially but mostly may not be thought of to include those 2 instances, depending on how you look at it?) - and yes also that mod of Lemmy.ml who told the person to kill themselves seemed fairly random as well (yet all the more troublesome since lemmy.ml is federated by nearly every instance, the only exceptions being tiny single-admin ones). But the above image, note from the URL that it is from lemmy.ml, seems not entirely "random" to me - it is instead very much "directed", at a particular group. As that style of propaganda tends very much to be... not "random" at all!
Although conservative Alt-Right sources appeared on Reddit as well, so both sites have a hefty amount of "alternative fact" sources. Moderation efforts are a more limiting resource on Lemmy so it makes sense that there is more of it here, overall. So long as we allow the lure of communities such as !firefox@lemmy.ml to sway us as we retain federation with those instances that not only allow but propagate that content, from the very site instance admins themselves, the situation will remain - the only recourse being for people to either leave their instances and go somewhere that allows defederation (either instance-wide such as the tiny lemmy.cafe or quokk.au; or switch to Mbin or PieFed that allows full content blocking of any instance that any user specifies, without needing admin approval). Edit: I forget to finish my sentence there: or else get an app that provides that functionality (I don't know which ones).
Perhaps he is... (wait for it... wait for it... x20 with fillers placed in-between) building up to a mega-ultra instinct combo retort?
This sounds familiar, almost as if history could perhaps, maybe, just possibly... repeat itself? Nah! (says spez)
People will follow the content creators indeed. Right now I'm not sure where they went though. The last I looked, it was basically nowhere, though to the extent that it was anything I thought it was X (even if via a temporary Mastodon intermediate). Musk fed Huffman bad info, which the Musk himself was not doing (or rather, the circumstances were entirely opposite - a public company going private rather than one attempting to make the polar opposition transition), and Huffman was dumb enough to fall for it, then Musk rakes in the rewards for his dirty deed.
Nowadays - or perhaps soon - as you said it might be Bluesky. So trading one corporate landlord for another, but it makes sense - the content creators will go wherever their audience is, and then the latter will in turn mindlessly follow the hoarde, but with an enormous delay measured in high number of months to even years. Plus, content creators need revenue to survive, e.g. how many videos is Ian Danskin (of Innuendo Studios) putting out these days? Then again, how many people especially younger ones even watch 20-30 minute long "video essays", rather than TikTok(-style) short-form clips?
All the rest: yup.
Here's a whole playlist from that same author that is amazing: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrttDbiWQ1XO1iHAszAsPobYSoR0uQg_1. The first one there will probably fuck you up though - it did me - as paradigm shattering is supposed to do, but hey, I did want to warn you in advance (to be absolutely clear: yes it is SOOO worth it!).
more mature and can actually discuss complex topics
I mean... well okay, more than Reddit yeah, for sure, in the sense that here at least it is possible at all.
Witch hunting is becoming a worse problem here than in Reddit.
How so? Genuinely I'm wondering lately if I'm causing issues. Generally that phrase presumes that the "witches" do not exist (I .. thought?), but e.g. tankies (literally: those who deny that the Tiananmen Square massacre ever took place, like with actual fatalities rather than being staged or some such) actually do exist. Anyway, I wonder if it's a natural reaction to the contentious atmosphere that has developed. Like all it takes is one person to walk into Chapotraphouse unawares, and bam, now you have radicalized someone against the bullies on the Fediverse.
Oh, or you might mean the overzealous modding of certain instances? Though I think that predates the Rexodus, so it's not "becoming a problem" so much as it was here long before most of us that are now here came over. e.g. here's a post from 3 years ago with a very familiar tone: https://lemmy.ml/post/206994. But I would argue that it is as true now as it was then: people don't enjoy being on the receiving end of intolerance, hence tend to be intolerant right back, and yet that is as it should be.
Anyway, the Fediverse has a lot more technical work to get done before it can be more palatable to most people, without HEAVY blocking - as that 3-year-old post shows, the issue isn't going away anytime soon, hence the friction between mutually opposing ideological constructs (e.g. "people in the USA should just die", vs... not that) is only going to spark more conflicts. We'd best settle in and get used to it.
Not on Lemmy proper but both Mbin and PieFed have that already. e.g. visit https://piefed.social/, click 3 horizontal bars -> Topics.
Both Mbin and PieFed have "categories", so that you don't need to search for and find communities at all - you can simply join like "memes", underneath "Chillin", and it'll show all of them. You can fine-tune further, but hunting through All can be a thing of the past. So... it's happening, not in Lemmy per se (yet) but in the wider Fediverse it's already here. See it yourself in action at e.g. https://piefed.social/ (3 horizontal bars -> Topics).
For real, there are people who will volunteer to do that, to help a community get off the ground. See !fedigrow@lemm.ee.
On PieFed, although I'm not sure what I think about it, posts with more than one user-defined threshold will get auto-collapsed, and then a second such threshold allows it to be hidden entirely.
So two people with opposing preferences could browse the same community but see it differently. The one wanting to see everything being allowed to do so - rather than that being the arbitrary decision of a mod (team), and the content hidden away in a mod log somewhere else, mostly inaccessible. Whereas the one who didn't want to "waste" their time, and rather trusting the feedback of the community, could have those collapsed or hidden if they so choose.
This allows democratization of the modding process: every voter is equally a mod as the next. Or maybe some trusted members more so than others? (But if so, it can't be TOO much higher than the others, or it could become overwhelming)
The major pitfall I see is if votes are allowed outside of the community, then it's vulnerable to being brigaded easily by a larger outside force.
Still, it's fascinating to see these experiments actually happen in that software that is available right now! e.g. on PieFed.social.
Genuinely... why though? Why not post once a week rather than per day? Or per month? Who is counting? If people want to join then they will, if not then they won't, but either way will one post per day for the last six months make any difference to their decision vs. one post per week?
I am no good at what I do. I try to enjoy it anyway.:-) Do with that what you will.
Definitely Reddit's buildup was smart. The transition to profitability not so much. Although we'll see.
Man, remember all those who kept arguing against it? I would say "Reddit is dying", and these new accounts that had never visited my sub before we decided it should go dark suddenly appeared and started talking crap about anyone who criticized Reddit. That should have been a smoking gun alone for people to realize what was going on. But instead, people just said "yup, that's Reddit for you". Which extremely unfortunately... they were right, bc that is what it had become by that time.
i.e., spez didn't kill Reddit by denying the usage of third-party apps - that was merely the final nail in the coffin for many of us, topping off a process that had begun several years earlier.