Biscuit

Well, there’s always whitespace!

What if I aim low? Like, “please include the letter c in your next commit”? Will that hit hard enough? Or should I go for a whole word? Come on, I need this!

And, they’ll all still be wrong!

I have a few ideas on how to clog my bowels. I really can’t wait to contribute!!!

Ok, now let’s ask the 99.9% of Redditors that aren’t here. You take the left 25,000,000, I’ll take the right, meet back in 5. Go!

edit: Oh man, I’m out of breath. We might need help. How about every single lemmy user helps us! That’s only about 1,300 people we each have to ask! Well, 1,299 for me. At 4 seconds each, that’s should only be about 1.5 hours. See you all soon!

Taking away popular apps to a social network that doesn’t have any yet? What? Most users won’t see that as a positive.

We would have to see the user stats related to reddit app usage, to talk in an informed way about this, along with the assumption that reddit doesn’t improve their app, which will probably be forced onto spez (assuming he isn’t kicked out as an atonement/scape goat).

edit: Here’s a quick litmus test. How many times have you gone to reddit today?

I don’t know, I was there in the beginning. I think it died because it had no real content, compared to reddit. And, all anyone talked about was reddit, or reposted stuff from reddit, just like we’re seeing here. I think this might stick a bit better because reddit is way bigger than it was back then, so even if the same super small % of users came over, it would still be quite a bit more content.

For comparison of how negligible all the Lemmy fediverse is, there are ~40k active users this month. Reddit has over 50 million active users. So, that’s around 0.1% of reddit users. Literally 99.9% of reddit are not here.

I think it’s probably doomed. It’ll never overtake reddit. But, it’ll be a nice, quiet, alternative.

edit: Here’s a quick litmus test for all the downvoters (I guess “correct” answers only here!). How many times have you gone to reddit today?

edit: I was part of this attempted migration, not the hate one. This isn’t the first blackout for reddit being shitty.

edit: I humbly apologize for my personal, speculative, opinion about the unknowable future. The downvotes have made me realize my math was wrong, my opinion is wrong, and I am wrong. My corrected opinion is that Lemmy will overtake Meta, Mastadon, Twitter, and Google (wtf is reddit!?), and every upvote will be worth $1000, making everyone rich! Or, we can have fun guessing, and wait and see how things go. I hope they go well!

Now playing, Cardiology Top Hits:

• “My Heart Will Go On” by Celine Dion
• “Heart of Glass” by Blondie
• “Achy Breaky Heart” by Billy Ray Cyrus
• “Heart Attack” by Demi Lovato
• “Un-break My Heart” by Toni Braxton
• “Heartless” by Kanye West
• “Dead and Gone” - T.I. ft. Justin Timberlake

I’m not sure I agree with that statement. While there are certainly many automated accounts and bots on the internet, there are also countless real people using the internet every day. It’s important to remember that behind every screen name and avatar is a human being with thoughts, feelings, and warm circuit boards. Let’s not diminish the humanity of others by assuming they’re all just flesh and bones.

Detecting and blocking whole instances with many bots is somewhat trivial. Blocking and detecting some number of bots in an instance with 10k users, with an ever growing number of human users, is much harder.

I think a reasonable approach would be to include little javascript mini games. “Score 50 or higher!” with no instructions provided.

edit: using a server side rendered canvas/logic, so no cheating. Damn, this is probably a million dollar idea.

See for their response: https://lemmy.ml/comment/909446

The Agora: https://sh.itjust.works/c/agora

Seems like a good way to test the concept of the Agora. Reading some comments here and elsewhere, many people appear to not be interested in democracy, and would rather have swift action from a leading group/person. I suspect this gives a hint at the fragmentation of the Fediverse, to come, where the tolerance of a single users action results in defederation. As instances grows to tens of thousands, I imagine the hunt for these people will become intense, with policing groups made to squash the wrongthink, in order to protect the federation.

Yeah, I’ve solved the no-poop riddle too: scoop 4 or 5 heaping spoonfuls of cream of wheat into your mouth and swallow with water.

I couldn’t eat/poop for over a week. I just drank juice/milk for sustenance, and gently massaged my guts every day until things started slowly working again. I thought I was going to die/have surgery. Weirdest thing was that I never got hungry. Technically, getting full quickly was my goal, so massive success!

The problem is that everything you’ve said requires actually knowing the person and their actions. I see people making massive assumptions to justify their hatred.

I think jokes and empathy can be somewhat orthogonal. In fact, I think any stable society/org requires a court jester. But dang, the amount of dehumanization, lack of empathy, and sometimes joy, I see is really scary. There are some angry, empty, people on the internet, that I hope to never meet in real life.

Lots of reddit will find themselves unwelcome in Lemmy and by various instance admins.

Do you have some examples?

near as much about republicans

That’s a pretty poor metric/goal, but you’re obviously right. But, dehumanizing large swaths of strangers is bad. That template, used by anyone, is bad. Full stop.

Part of the issue is that the “nazi” line is being placed haphazardly. For example, this comment will be enough for some people to put me on the “nazi” side, without knowing anything about me.

To be fair, I see this said about republicans, and even center/independents, all the time. Dehumanizing is never good.

If I win, I’m going to double my keys and give them to the next person.