I used to be the type to want to consider a variety of opinions and play devil’s advocate. The last decade has radicalized me into being much more staunchly progressive. Stand for nothing, you’ll fall for anything.

It’s an easy trap to fall into if you’re a generally open minded person I think. I didn’t want to follow the herd, and I didn’t want to take things at face value. Those aren’t bad ideals, but when living in a corrupt and dishonest world it basically means giving too much space to people who aren’t worth it.

I don’t know enough to be able to extrapolate anything from it, but sounds like there’s a lot to unpack for those like you who can.

I’m from Washington and I’m surprised we’re not higher. In the winter it’s dark during both morning and evening rush hour, meaning most people are doing their commutes in the dark. It can feel pretty dangerous sometimes.

Simple to say, not so simple to do. I’d love to honestly.

Nah we’re trying to get away from it, too.

I’m not enough of an expert to explain it better, but I remember reading about a guy who came on board with google, and took over search. He had an initiative to keep people on google longer. That’s my memory of it at least.

In the case of google they purposely made it worse so that people spent more time on their site rather than other sites. This means they see more ads from google as opposed to ads on another website. They’ve just doubled down on this with AI summaries, too. Now they just blatantly take content from websites so you don’t have to go to the website that made it at all.

I guess it’s not surprising that this is also a google thing, but gmail’s. No matter what I type in it shows me my entire inbox practically. It’s so fuzzy it’s completely useless.

Available on GOG too if anyone would prefer that. 🙂

Druidstone! It’s a really great indie tactical RPG. Very fun and I never hear anyone talk about it.

Fair enough!

You’re against the idea of credits?

I’m on today and I can recommend it. The whole point of it is not to have its own communities but just to be a neutral place to have an account. That was very appealing me as someone who really doesn’t care about the “pick a community” part of Lemmy.

This makes sense, thanks for the answer!

Consolidation is inevitable I think. The most important feature of a social network is who’s on it, and federation is a technical enough concept that it’s going to be very hard to convince people not to go to the biggest instance.

I’m not a dev, but I believe the only way to avoid consolidation is to build some kind of neutral signup site that automatically assigns people to an instance based on load/location. This would also be good for adoption cause people could sign up without having to figure out what instances are.

I don’t really understand how it would be, since things get duplicated across any federated instances. If anything it amplifies the spam since it auto-dupes it everywhere.

You might say everyone could just defederate, but at that point the damage is done, no? Not to mention if they’re using bot armies they can just send them at any new instances that spin up.

Someone please let me know if I’m wrong, but I don’t see how Lemmy could withstand any amount or coordinated cyber attack or operation.

If dedicated security teams from fortune 500 companies can’t beat them, I don’t see how someone’s server in their garage is going to do it.

I’ve never enjoyed gyms or traditional workouts, but yoga clicks with me.

Nah not really. I think piracy is a complex issue though, with far less wide reaching collateral damage. I wouldn’t compare the two, personally.

I agree with that I think.

That third one definitely seems the most fun at a glance!