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The key word is "disorder" though.

Everyone experiences anxiety from time to time, just like everyone has minor bouts of depression or invasive compulsions. Some non-disordered might even still experience them often.

Not everyone experiences these feelings pervasively to a degree it prevents them from socioeconomic success (making friends, going outside, finding and keeping a job, etc).

Hey man, as long as you had fun.

People see it as a way to spread awareness about the fediverse alternatives that are out there. Like "hey, if you like this, there's more where that came from." It's not for viewers who are already here, but for those where the post inevitably travels.

I dunno. Both watermarking and being annoyed at the watermarks seem like a waste of energy to me. If people are going to generate content, I'm not going to sass them about how unless it makes something about the content worse (harder to read etc).

I gotta say, I thought your first comment was some kind of madly wild, baseless, bitter accusation stemming from heavy disillusionment with reddit and assumption that spez must surely represent the worst of us.

The fact that you actually have a source for that madness and interpreted that source accurately is the most mindblowing thing I've seen in a while. That really is quite an article.

Thanks for the archive link OP, mods removed the post by the time I got to it. (Though the comment section is still intact, for now)

I don't mind the lower quantity - that's expected on a small platform - but I'm definitely not enjoying the lower quality.

I think the issue here is that there's a sweet spot where quantity and quality are in equilibrium. You NEED a certain quantity before you have a high chance of finding insightful comments on a given topic -- to simplify things, if there's a 1% chance a given comment is going to be from an expert with great insight, you have a ~9.6% chance of finding that on a post with 10 comments and a ~63% chance of finding that on a post with 100 comments. The threadiverse just hasn't hit that threshold yet.

Of course, there's a tipping point which reddit is long past, where higher and higher quantities start to drown out the insightful posts with memes and quips, or downvote and mock them with a confidently wrong counter-opinion the mob wants to hear more.

I hope the barriers to entry with decentralized services that the masses find "confusing" are such that we eventually manage to reach equilibirum and not tip too terribly far past it.

But then they wouldn't get so many clicks and reactions.

Everyone's malding over spoilers and not realizing this isn't an actual ending that's coded into the game, it's just a funny side effect of a spell that malfunctioned during the end boss.

Again with the fixation on the OP. Let me be more direct: I didn't ask you.

Everyone has given good advice, but I just want to remind you:

it’s kinda dusty and feels like a bad place for babies

They evolved to do this without much human intervention in all kinds of outdoor conditions. Have their lives been improved by domestication and human watchfulness, yes, absolutely... but they'll be okay. A little dust will not be a serious hazard.

It's kind of you to care so much.

Sure, but that was just additional context for my question, which was what this poster feels is the difference between changing owners and buying out a company.