PeriodicallyPedantic

Not yet. I'll add it to my wishlist.

In the spirit of shitting on popular things, litrpg edition: Battlemage Farmer was one of the worst books I ever read (listened to)

With so many a-list actors, they all get different story arcs, and fight for screen time, so there isn't time to tell a nuanced or interesting story, and when they're together it's just an orgy of showing off how cool they are

It wasn't about size or buoyancy, it's about the plot. Jack had to die, and that was the prop they had.

If you wanna retcon an explanation onto it, I'd say its about stability. They'd both be kept afloat, but they'd get wet.

If you're an ashamed litrpg fan like me, then I recommend He Who Fights Monsters.

Trailer park boys is just arrested development but poor people and a mockumentary.

They're just stories with a different set of tropes than what we typically see in the west.

I'm in Canada.
I wasn't taught anything about the Odyssey or Iliad
But I at least know that they're ancient and Greek.

Lemmy is an infinite feed of empty bitesized content. It may not have a purpose in feeding you, but it does all the same. Or what do you mean by "feeding"? I interpret that as presenting you with the mental equivalent of empty calories. It's not motivated by ad money to do so, but that doesn't mean it's not motivated, or that it even needs motivation to do so. In fact, Lemmy is largely just a reddit clone, so simply by copying reddit it inherited many of the UX design choices.
All social networks, including federated platforms, use "algorithms" to surface content. The algorithm that Lemmy uses is very simple, but using a more complex algorithm is not inherently bad. People use "algorithm" as some kind of boogyman word without understanding it or considering what it means.

To not be a hypocrite you should treat all social networks with a similar critical eye. I'm not gonna say that they're all equally evil, but when you criticize something that other people like, then you should be willing and even eager to turn that same eye on the things you like.
I am concerned about those things. I do very little about it. It's a cost I just have to be aware of when I use these services. Specifically wrt social networks I stopped using the ones that don't bring me enjoyment.

Wrt Tiktok specifically, I find it less predatory than the other for profit platforms, but I don't blame people for not using it if they don't like it. I just check myself before I say anything elitist about social networks preferences

I'll pay you $1000 to let me unsee this

What about those people? They're mainly the aforementioned hypocrites.

You're worried about Tiktok privacy? Good, you should be. You should ALSO be worried about privacy everywhere else you go. Where is your concerned about Lemmy's privacy? People who think Lemmy is private are like the people who think that blockchain makes your transactions untraceable.

You're worried about being fed empty content? Ok I guess. Where is your concern about brainrot content on Lemmy? Nobody is being outraged by !hmmm@lemmy.world or !memes@lemmy.world or !showerthoughts@lemmy.world.
And if you think all content on Tiktok (or most content presented to users) is like that, then that says more about whoever told you that than it does about Tiktok.

You seem more than happy enough to be a pig being fed by Lemmy.

You may call this whataboutism.
I call this a hard look in the mirror and a call for you to reflect on why you're ok with it some places and not others, and if perhaps it's related to purity, or elitism, or ageism, or racism.

No, I understood perfectly.
Capitalism causes apps to be shitty
But you don't understand that capitalism isn't the only reason that apps become shitty.

And out comes the big "algorithm" Boogeyman, decried by people who don't know what an algorithm is.

You know why it's easy to put down Lemmy? Because it does a horrifically shitty job at presenting you with new content that you're actually interested in. That it. That's the entire story. You're less addicted because it's less enjoyable. That is literally the entire thing.

Lemmy has all the parts needed for the same experience: an infinitely scrolling list of bite sized content. The only difference is that there is way less content here, and there is no discovery (meaning it keeps you in your own self-defined echo chamber).
Lemmy is a reddit clone, and if you're gonna tell me that people aren't addicted to reddit at similarly "dangerous" rates then I'ma full on call you a liar with my entire full chest.