Accurate.

Ditto

Team sport 😬

Uhhh Go Team !!! (insert hey mickey gif) lol

Go Sports!

I’m going with cuck porn on this one

🥦😎

But not too big a team, it gets ruined once you get too big

Ditto.

sensual pottery scene

Hahaha

sensual pottery scene

Would that be a male or female version?

I winced.

Is your back giving you trouble, too?

I’m 39 and 3 months, thankyouverymuch, so I DO NOT fit the demographic!

(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻

not accurate

You rang?

There are some lost kids wandering around complaining about their moms…

I dunno how they found it into here.

complaining about their +70 year old mom

Oh I can do that, this woman sits in her chair all day watching right wing youtube and complaining about her failing health. God forbid she take a walk or get a hobby!

you leave my muddah out ’o this!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yFTOvO0utY

The great thing about the Internet is that people can just find stuff, often by accident.

Well, people used to be able to do that. Nowadays, IDK…

I accidentally stumbled upon the Wikipedia article about Sad Clowns when I was looking for that picture of the happy/sad face from theater.

I have mixed feelings about what I read today. :|

The primary issue is: not anymore.

I found myself in comparable spaces for the time too. Spend enough time online and you hear about things.

Not 40, but also don’t want my thoughts and comments to be an income stream for a for-profit organization, whether that be by selling my data for profit, training an LLM with my data, or contributing to an inescapable network effect that can be increasingly monetized by various means.

The modern social media platform is not designed to foster positive interactions, but rather to maximize shareholder value.

also don’t want my thoughts and comments to be an income stream for a for-profit organization

I mean, you’re fooling yourself if you don’t believe Lemmy has been scrapped by a thousand crawlers by now.

I’m more paranoid about how many accounts are bots than about some data aggregator getting my dumbshit hot takes as training data.

I mean, you’re fooling yourself if you don’t believe Lemmy has been scrapped by a thousand crawlers by now.

That’s why we’re here. To fu k with the scrapers and poison the training 🙃

Equal access for all is still better than one company controlling access to my content for the purposes of monetization.

Dw, the corpos are using bots to scrape and categorize your thoughts and comments anyway.

They will be able to interact with a nearly identical fully formed person, at any point of development for them, who they can make and unmake at a whim, modify, and so on. While they leave the real people to just die.

don’t want my thoughts and comments to be an income stream for a for-profit organization

(…)

The modern social media platform is not designed to foster positive interactions, but rather to maximize shareholder value.

This is so much more important than whatever elitism OOP implies.

I’m also not 40 btw.

Coming here for discussion and meme dopamine, Lemmy still has that intact. Reddit has killed it with bots, ads, and some heavy duty corporate lean on things.

r/castiron, dominated by Lodge Corpo as one example. Other “suggestions”, too early in the day to recall more names right now, are in a parrot circle of replies for brands, as above.

You can’t trust it as much, which is why, in part, people are here instead. More old, old Reddit feels, you know, before it became cool and was thus inevitably ruined.

I don’t regret it. I only regret letting the corporations stake their claim without greater pushback.

“The best time to join the fediverse is 10 years ago, second best time is today.”

• Wayne Gretzky
• Michael Scott

• aizakku

When Facebook came around, I immediately saw what it would lead to. Hell, just the thought of sharing your personal details for anyone and everyone to read was extremely creepy to me. Any time I tried to communicate this to people asking me why I wasn’t on Facebook it achieved nothing. Pushback was useless, people want what they perceive as “convenience” even when they have to (almost literally) sell their souls to the machine. No, I don’t think pushback would have helped, because people want these - and I shudder to call them such - services. The Internet was doomed the day it became mainstream.

When I was young, I was called a nerd for using computers. People online were primarily nerds who cared about tech. Those days are long gone, and there was nothing that could’ve been done to prevent the rot. It was inevitable as the Internet became more popular.

The masses will always be asses. They don’t care. They will eat corporate slop and ask for seconds until their bloated corpses burst. The best we can do is create alternative infrastructures and wait with horror as they start to rot too.

Jesus, I think I’m having a bit of a blue day.

Yep. That is the regret.

Also for people with severe superiority complexes

Wow, wrong, and what an ignorant point of view.

(/s) :)

Why did you repeat what op said

who are all wrong. Clearly I’m the most superior.

See, this is why I love Lemmy. The good parts are like everyone’s grey beard uncles got together and are all trying to tell the best goofball jokes.

My take is that the fediverse is nice because it’s still in its pre-enshittification phase. Give it time.

It’s designed to resist corpo capture via interoperability… if it starts enshittifying, hopefully this will allow users to shift over without incurring too much switching cost keeping them in place

I know the theory, but it really just puts enshittification in different hands.

Well, you are using world, which is like the reddit of lemmy

So was the united States… Lol. But I’m hoping for better here

Hopefully its design makes it resistant to enshittification.

Depends… if enshittification just means corporate control and advertising, I have high hopes for the design. If enshittification also includes things like personal insults, echo chambers and gatekeeping, those ships have already sailed as expected.

“Enshittification” has a more specific meaning than just “things getting shitty.” It’s about a product or service being purposefully made worse in order for the company controlling it to extract more profit by means more underhanded and exploitative than just raising the price.

Forum toxicity (sans some algorithm or bot farm egging it on for some nefarious purpose) is categorically a different thing than enshittification.

The Fediverse can’t enshittify in its current state because it’s not controlled by a corporation. In order for it to happen, it would have to be overwhelmed by federating with Threads or something like that.

Alright I understand the distinction now, although I don’t think either kind of degradation creates a worse user experience than the other. I wonder what term will be made up to describe the situation when corporations have spun up their own instances of lemmy etc. and promote them so they attract far more users. Maybe disillusionication?

enshittification just means corporate control and advertising

That is what enshittification means. It is specifically a corporation making it’s product shittier because they’ve cornered the market.

Thanks, silly me assumed a word like “enshittification” would just mean “made shitty”.

The whole point of decentralisation/federation is that it’s enshittification proof. If one services goes bad, users can move away and continue to maintain their network effect.

The fact that we’re not corposlop gives structural resistance to it. Just don’t let us get EEE’d

I’m about half that age, and I’ve met at least a couple grads and undergrad students on here that I assumed were also in their 20s…

20 year old reporting for duty

Hah, you said duty.

Welcome! You certainly don’t have to match the stereotypes to fit in around here.

I just turned 24. I like my internet smol.

I think there’s two general kinds of people on the fediverse: Those who believe in whatever freedom, security, privacy, whatever, and the rest of us that came from somewhere else that went off the deep end of enshittification.

Oof. “Porque” is “because” Por qué" is “why”. lol

But… yes. :) ¿Por qué no los dos? :)

No hablas Espangol

See senyor

So then “because of both” - seems legit!! 😜

I am bolth

ALTblack white muscle handshake meme

Hey no fair! I’m 30, I grew up on the Internet and hate what it became

yeah but we didn’t build it. we just grew up on it.

The Web. Internet is fine.

true.

Honestly really glad, I’m tired of reading teenager opinions everywhere on the Internet

Joke’s on you: my opinions are just as bad.

Yeah? Well I also have shit opinions.

I think mine are the best there is. I do have a problem with objective judgment though

I think mine are the best there is.

Likelihood of teenager.

I do have a problem with objective judgment though

Evidence of self-awareness, personal reflection, and confidence enough to admit personal shortcomings: Definitely not a teenager.

D’oh 😖

So my opinions are automatically worthless just because I’m 19?

I didn’t say that, me not wanting to read them doesn’t make them worthless

minors not being listened to/having autonomy is the foundation of most things wrong with this world :(

Strong claim

You can debate me on it if you like…

I think a lot of you are projecting, lol

I love young people. My volunteer little sister just graduated and I used to work with trafficking victims. Listening to young people one-on-one is important and rewarding, I hope for both of us.

Reading a hasty thought from someone who doesn’t even know who they are yet every 30 seconds on the Internet on websites like reddit, where people skew really young, and taking that extremely seriously is not enjoyable, for adults or for them. And unfortunately, whatever stupid thing people say gets preserved on the Internet for WAY too long, all the more reason to disregard it quickly, but people really struggle with that online.

I’ve fucking known who I am since I was 12, no one would accept it or believe me or give me bodily autonomy or let me learn actually useful things instead of religion at school, or let me not wear religious and gender invalidating clothing

I’m really sorry you went through that

😑

Agreed

Sadly, yes.

Don’t make the mistake of thinking that age automatically makes one wise, but yes, inexperience does automatically make one naïve.

Sadly that’s how some people think

:old-man-yells-at-clouds-meme:

Plenty of old people with stupid takes too

I still want to read bad takes, that’s not the issue here

Our current crop of old people sucks badly. I aim to grow wise and notmerely grow old

Wanna see us do it again? 💪 let’s do this, team

I just wanted my Geocities page back.

I just made a neocities page, highly recommend

Had no idea this was a thing. I’ll get one up tomorrow!

If it’s cool, share it!

And IRC.

Yeah totally! Getting voiced was like being knighted. Hope my homies on DALnet are doing alright.

And MUDs.

Heh, back before the web, I recall there were two people hogging the modems in the library: IRC users and MUD users. I guess we’re here now.

The Disc world Mud is still around

A lot of us still use IRC.

Yeah, I know. But the old main IRC spanish network is mostly dead since MS messenger. Still exists, but channnels are empty or are only people looking for sex.

Damn bro I’m not 40 yet. We age fast enough, don’t rush it lol

How dare you accuse me of contributing anything other than shitposts to the world wide web.

Shitposts are the cornerstone of the internet.

A contribution is a contribution

i’m 39 and haven’t built shit but the regret is real

By commenting this on a federated platform, you have contributed to the open web. The fediverse is nothing if there’s no content / interactions, like your comment. I know what you mean and it might not seem like much, but you are building shit.

thank you for the kind words! now i realize i installed several rooftop wifi antennas for cash in 2005 and the regret is even stronger

The people who built the web aren’t the ones responsible for its’ consolidation.

I was contracted to work for a non-profit that helped teachers write and analyze student test scores for a few years. The non-profit ended when the CEO sold the company to another education company. The new education company has contracts with the department of defense in my country.

When I reflect upon the outcome. It would seem that the department of defense now has direct access to many more students who test scores are low. All lined up and analyzed. And I’m the one that automated the deployment of that system. I just quietly took my checks until my contract was no longer renewed.

From my point of view I did built a small part of the web. And I stood around and did nothing while the web/company/people around me were being consolidated. While the department of defense freely browsed some of the most vulnerable children/students in the country because they know poorer testing students are more likely to join the military for money.

A lot of people are going to die because of that analysis system in my opinion; And to me, that means I am responsible.

Well, maybe in some way. In some way we’re all responsible for the military-industrial complex that consumes unbelievable amounts of money in pursuit of global domination and “national security”.

Maybe you can do your part to break that up by educating children about the predatory nature of the military. About the many atrocities committed. And how they target people who don’t test well in school (but obviously aren’t necessarily stupid) because they’re more likely to do what they’re told and not question anything.

To be fair, you did not know, how what you build, would end up being used. How could you, especially since you were working for a non-profit, that helped teachers? It is not like you were building something obviously dangerous, weapons or some shit. Maybe you feel responsible, but expecting everyone to just not do anything, in fear of it being potentially misused for something nefarious, is no way to live. That way none should do anything.

Since when is not knowing you’ll do harm an valid excuse for harm done? We all fail to anticipate sometimes and shouldn’t be punished for it, but we should still strive to correct those wrongs.

They did something good-seeming in good faith, and someone else used that, for something evil later on. You would need the power to see into the future, to prevent stuff like that. If we are all to blame for something so indirect, then what does being responsible even mean anymore? That does not mean we should not strive to correct those wrongs, yes. But I do not think it makes you responsible for them either.

I think that’s a big part of the point.

Wow

im over 50 and lee is way older than I. Granted www was just being born when I was in college.

No shame in getting your freak on in telnet chat rooms or NNTP newsgroups.

one reason I liked reddit was it felt a bit more like alt. rec. newsgroups. the federation of course made it way better.

I didn’t build it, but I was raised by it. I was so hopeful when I was younger.

I thought humanity’s problem was lack of access to information. The Internet proved I was catastrophically mistaken. The real world beat that idealistic youth to submission.

Same here. I didn’t understand that people with power tend to find ways to make the voices they like louder, even when we all had a vote in what was popular they found a way.

And then the other thing. People tend to believe what they want to believe and outrage is often just a form of entertainment.

Turns out what we needed was less access to misinformation.

see you on Reticulum!

Yeah this one Cuts deep

🔘I’m in this meme and I don’t like it

(Sorry for everything.)

"I was there, Gandalf."

I like the Web.

I don’t like all of the websites out there and avoid using some, but I think that that was always going to be the case.

I guess that maybe it’s a little surprising that there was the degree of consolidation that there was among the broader population into use of some specific websites. But…well, network effect applies to social media, so you’d expect at least some natural tendency in that direction.

considers

I guess that the degree of shift to social media as a whole is surprising to me. Like, most really important websites are social media websites. But, well, I’d always used social media myself, even prior to the term being coined, so the idea that others might want to use it doesn’t seem that strange. BBSes, Usenet. I wasn’t a user of The WELL, but there’s another influential forum.

And a shift to Web-based social media was predicted. Those of us who were around probably remember use of the term “Web 2.0”:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0

Web 2.0 (also known as participative, participatory,[1] web and social web)[2] refers to websites that emphasize user-generated content, ease of use, participatory culture, and interoperability (i.e., compatibility with other products, systems, and devices) for end users.

The term was coined by Darcy DiNucci in 1999[3] and later popularized by Tim O’Reilly and Dale Dougherty at the first Web 2.0 Conference in 2004.[4][5][6] Although the term mimics the numbering of software versions, it does not denote a formal change in the nature of the World Wide Web;[7] the term merely describes a general change that occurred during this period as interactive websites proliferated and came to overshadow the older, more static websites of the original Web.[2]

A Web 2.0 website allows users to interact and collaborate through social media dialogue as creators of user-generated content in a virtual community. This contrasts the first generation of Web 1.0-era websites where people were limited to passively viewing content. Examples of Web 2.0 features include social networking sites or social media sites (e.g., Facebook), blogs, wikis, folksonomies (“tagging” keywords on websites and links), video sharing sites (e.g., YouTube), image sharing sites (e.g., Flickr), hosted services, Web applications (“apps”), collaborative consumption platforms, and mashup applications.

Whether Web 2.0 is substantially different from prior Web technologies has been challenged by World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee, who describes the term as jargon.[8] His original vision of the Web was “a collaborative medium, a place where we [could] all meet and read and write”.[9][10] On the other hand, the term Semantic Web (sometimes referred to as Web 3.0)[11] was coined by Berners-Lee to refer to a web of content where the meaning can be processed by machines.[12]

By Berners-Lee’s statement there, he always expected the Web to have a social aspect.

Lemmy is under 25 and over 45 absolutely no in between

Fuck, I guess I gotta get off. See you again in about 3 years.

Got my start in the 14.4 days.

Same here! The family computer’s first modem was 14.4Kbps. The sound of it connecting is burned into my memory.

56k.rip

Wow, I couldn’t even hold my head up at 14.4 days.

lol the first time I was using a computer was on my grandfather’s PC running DOS 2.0 on dual 5” floppy drives.

I went from a 1200 baud to a 28.8. It was like driving a supercar at the time.

I feel seent.

there’s 2 kinds of people on fedi:

40 year olds who remember the good ol days of the interwebs

16 year old queer shitposters who got tired of getting called every slur imaginable on other networks

both are into linux

you forgot the 3rd kind

Russian bots

Luckily it is typically too small to be much of a bot target. I don’t subscribe to world news subs though, dark places.

It’s usually only the news subs. But if you make claims that counter Kremlin propaganda you can sometimes summon them.

Like if I just say Russia is committing genocide in Ukraine, it won’t (why? Beats me). But if I say they are killing ethnic Russian Ukrainian citizens as well as Ukrainian men, women, and children, then we have a good chance.

I got others if it doesn’t work.

Edit: (WITNESS ME! Lol) Edit 2: Now I’m impressed. I knew I could do it, I didn’t expect it to work quite so well. I’ll check back in a few hours.

“People disagreeing with me are bots”

Why you people always gotta take everything as black and white. I use “bot” interchangeably with “shill.”

Edit: I see no one found the humor with switching the actual thing that is black and white in his statement (“Everyone I disagree with”) with the “bot” and “shill” thing.

“shill” implies payment, Lemmy is just way too under the radar for that kind of engagement

And by the time you have shills the network will be drowned in LLMs already. The latter hasn’t happened, it’s pure paranoia to think the former is anything to be concerned with.

If they’re getting paid to do it, they’re just meatbots.

That old cartoon show “Metabots” but they’re people in a computer cave lol

…Do you unironically believe people are getting paid to be on lemmy?

also into linux

Isn’t that something else? No matter where you are on the planet, if you know technology, you despise Windows.

Always has been.

Well, since 1978 or so.

Almost no one was into Linux back then though

The first version was released in 1991.

Not so sure, Putin was spotted voting on a unactivated windows computer (so several of my colleagues told me yesterday, haven’t verified that claim).

dont i remember there were no cables running to the monitor

Was it cake?

It was a lie, that much for sure.

Do Linux Russians also wear fancy socks?

Only secretly!

the 3rd kind is people too toxic for reddit and got banned

I think you meant to say 40 year old queer shitposters

i guess im the 4th kind

They’ve got an entire instance!

And that’s just the “nice” one that people still federate with.

I feel called out

I have to use Windows at work now, which is ass.

Anyway, I had a question about how to achieve something in Powershell the other day, so I asked it on Mastodon. Got basically nothing in response.

Every time I ask how to do something in Linux I get swamped with responses.

Make of that what you will.

I use powershell on linux, it’s on AUR: aur.archlinux.org/packages/powershell

I write scripts on my linux machine then run them on windows workstations

I thought I was alone!

https://github.com/brianary/

Where do fifty-something furries fit to this?

In the corner, facing the wall, sweating profusely while they think real hard about their submission/humiliation fetish.

We know all IT departments are primarily composed of furries, so it’s just a branch of number 1 really.

Third kind (the only people I know from real life who use the fediverse): Tech/math enthusiasts, usually grad students (who are also into linux)

I’m a Luddite who discovered this shit inadvertently, and still doesn’t actually understand how any of it works

But you’re correct in that I’m pushing 50

I’m flattered that you think I’m 16 and didn’t just turn double that this month c’:

Queer less than 25 here, I came here not because I was getting called slurs but because I’m tired of companies and of AI, I’m also on Linux :3

Good man(/woman/person/other-identity-that-represents-you)!

I’m 60 and was tired of companies before you were born, AI is just the same shit served on a different cracker, I’m also on Linux :)

Excuse me, I’m not 40 for a few more years yet tyvm!

I can be a 40 years old queer friendly tired of being called slurs wanting to go back, with a mindset of a 16 year old…

I am in my mid-30s i will have you know!

I run Arch, btw.

What about us 20 somethings who vaguely remember the good ol days as they were fading away?

LGBT40+

That’s my people.

That’s fair

If by build you mean a Thursday board power user, sure.

I felt my back in this post.

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!unix_surrealism@lemmy.sdf.org

I can’t understate how much I love this art

I think you mean overstate? Otherwise you’re saying that you don’t really like it at all.

Yeah, overstate. But I will still leave the comment unedited

It’s ok, we overstood you. But yeah, pmjv is a fucking genius.

What did I do this time?!

Me 😉

Don’t you remember?

lel!

ALTand then they all FUCKED

ALT“Internet - A FIRST DISCOVERY BOOK” cover art

steamsteamlol.ytmnd.com

yarti.ytmnd.com

Wait I’m considered young here even though I’m in my late 30s?

You are but a whelpling. Welcome.

Thanks glad I’m here

You seem like a polite child, but isn’t it a little late for you to be up? Hurry to bed before your parents find out.

Yup, some of us are old enough to call the 40 and 50 year olds “young whippersnappers”.

Not super young, but young for the group. Hell, I’m in my mid 40s (I think. Please don’t ask me to do the math) and I get the sense I’m on the young end of the primary demographic here

it’s dangerous to get too excited at your age, gramps, your heart might not take it

Does it count as building the web if I worked manufacturing the AOL disks that plagued everyone’s mailbox?

Sorry to say, that was more like the initial wave of enshitification.

I learned the first bits of HTML by editing an index.html file from an AOL disk and customizing it to be my own homepage. We didn’t even had home internet back then. So yeah, it counts.

Maybe mastodon but the lemmy / piefed / mbin instances seem to be a much younger user base.

If we unite, we can regret it again.

That was my first thought. If we believe in ourselves we can fill Lemmy with ads and make it a subscription service and sell everyone’s data to the lowest bidder. We can do it!

im gonna gift you Lemmy Plutonium for this!

By your powers combined, I am captain shitpost:

we wrote the rules of the internet, and while some were In-jokes about life on 4Chan, a lot of them are just plain truisms. But the language makes Gen Z have the buttpains, so here we are…

If I could enforce just one of the old rules it would be LURK MOAR.

I’m 22 but i kinda like the vibes of here.

Good. Glad you like the place.

Cool. Can I buy some of your blood?

I eat plastic to feel young.

Op can I buy your blood and then we give imgonnaregretthis a pail full of sheep mucus. We can split the money and the leftover lymph 60:40

Huh? I’m just trying to find the comm I can’t remember cuz it pinned what to do, like I gotta find/remember quick, whether you keep it cold or warm, I know it depends, you got the link?

This isn’t the corporate web, donate blood, don’t sell it.

Or pirate it.

You wouldn’t download a blood… oh, wait

nevermind.

Bring your friends

My only problem with it is that it’s federated.

You can host your own instance and defederate, it’ll be a win-win

There are better forum software for that.

But federation makes the user count too high and leads to all the problems other social media has.

Clearly “all the problems other social media has” are present without federation, so the claim federation leads to those problems is kind of silly.

The problem is users, if all instances were defederated then each instance would have less which is what you want.

Federation would be fine if users could only interact with people on their own instance/see content from their own.

Do… Do you understand what federation means in this context?

Also, have you considered just, like, going outside?

Yes to both. It doesn’t change the issue.

Who invented the modern computer look and feel - the sick sad history of computer-aided collaboration: What they wanted and how it went:
https://www.quora.com/Who-invented-the-modern-computer-look-and-feel/answer/Harri-K-Hiltunen

Hold on I want to use the computer with the knobs you tweak

Only it’s being overrun by a bunch of teenaged idealists that insult anyone that disagrees with them.

No your mother

Have you called her lately? She misses you.

Fuck off grandpa

Look, here’s one now!

Unfortunately as a younger gen z i need to supplement my Fediversing with traditional social media unless i want to have humor of a previous generation and get obliterated at school. I wish there was a greater variety of people on here

Bring them here, we promise not to be awkward!

Speak for yourself I promise to be awkward as daisy dukes on a crusty old fart with droopy balls.

We shall bring the weird gen Z here so they can “match your freak” as the kids say these days.

I’ve been here for three years. Weirdest Z in the gen.

I’m from the 40+ demographic but also weird and I don’t think it’s really about age or generation. I don’t care about how you reached this particular stage of enlightenment; all that matters is if you’re on the fediverse, y’all are my people.

Nah, join the dark side. There will soon be a day when you can’t understand the young ones anyway. Why not today?

Wrong

67 skibidi rizz

Older gen z here, doing my part

HOW DO YOU KKOW MY AGE?! fuck. i’m in.

Can’t relate. I just wanted off Reddit. Every top post and comment was a reposted top post or comment. Now it’s mostly bots… Anyways where are the 30s peeps at?

Love to be made to feel young in my mid thirties lol

Not quite. I went here initially because I got permabanned on reddit. But I now realize reddit is a shithole so I like it here. I do wish there were more active niche communities and I really wish you could comment while on VPN, which you cant for some reason

Yep, I was just addicted to reddit, went through my comments and posts after getting banned and realized it had been years since I really got value of interacting. Any question you want to ask has prob already been asked recently due to the sheer volume of ppl.

There also seems to be something about the echo chamber that has a weird reinforcing effect. It can become really pathological. People talk about the “reddit hivemind”, but it doesn’t really strike you until see people acting crazy.

One incident that really stuck out for me was a post with a woman holding a sign. I forget what the entire sign said, but the phrase had the word “stupider” in it. I went into the comments, and a ton of people were making fun of her for using that word. Why? Because they thought that it was grammatically incorrect. You’re supposed to say “more stupid”, they said. Well, that’s wrong, and I pointed out to them that it was a word according to any dictionary. I had people arguing with me that the dictionaries were incorrect.

Then there are the AI detectives. These people are fucking insane. It doesn’t matter if you have a statement saying that you don’t use AI. They don’t believe you! They can tell. If they were doing this to my artwork, I would be livid.

Why can’t you comment while on a VPN? I’m on a VPN right now and I’m commenting.

Also, I hate to tell you this, but reddit is the way it is because it’s so popular. If we had the amount of people necessary to make niche communities thrive, it would be just like reddit. Well, at least as far as the people posting and so on. There wouldn’t be any of the weird administrative stuff because it’s run much differently. But the fact that the system is just like reddit’s means that it attracts the same kinds of people and encourages the same kind of behavior.

Just like you can only find the specialty stores in the cities, where you’ll also find parking and traffic problems

Reddit has additionally deteriorated because it’s pushing more and more algorithmic content surfacing. The home page there is now closer to a facebook feed than the old default ‘Hot’ sorting. You also get pushed random subs and posts at the bottom of pages. Comments are also buried or surfaced depending on some algorithm not directly tied to upvotes.

Plus a ton of the users are now coming from mobile and are “app first”.

Looks like your shit just works, while it’s not like that in the whole world

Lemmy.world blocks posting from Tor and some VPNs.

How do I get around this then? I still have to disable vpn to comment.

Its Tor that blocks, try changing servers to a non tor instance.

As far as I know my VPN doesn’t use Tor but I’m still blocked. It does keep me from commenting 99% of the time, which I’ve concluded is a good thing, it means I spend less time here, although it sometimes feels bad being a lurker.

Edit: I looked into it and Tor was enabled on that specific VPN profile. Now I can comment while on VPN, which means my only limiter is my own willpower, yikes

I’m 38 I’ll have you know.

…turning 39 in a few months.

Thanks for bringing some youth to the place.

We make jokes but Lemmy is still younger than most of Congress

We’re young whippersnappers to be sure.

I would say I like it here, imo the format and overall technology is perfect. I am always impressed by how little battery and data voyager uses compared to all the other bloated apps on my phone.

Having said that, I am disappointed that even without feeds and algorithms, it has become a lot more rage inducing and depressing then I would have hoped for.

There is just so many things that affect my life in a negative way being shown here, can’t a guy get a little ignorant bliss about nerdy topics? Or long, deep discussions comparing the philosophies of niche hobbies?

I’ll be back within a day, you’d better have your topic of conversation prepared!

Was thinking of making a post about movies which have reception of being worse than the book by the general public that was better than the book in your opinion.

Ok my answer is going to be a little disappointing, but I thought about it for a bit and here’s what I can say…

Usually I read a book or I watch a film, I don’t think I’ve ever done both for the same story. Sometimes there is no equivalent book or film, and when there is, I personally just end up choosing whatever format my gut says to try.

If I’ve imagined a universe and story in my mind (from a book), or had the experience delivered to me (in a film), I don’t want them to conflict so I just choose one. Probably because I see so many debates about this online and I’m just like, “nah I’m not getting involved”.

I’m actually probably the worst qualified person to give an opinion on that!! But I recognize I’m probably a weirdo, as I don’t even watch film trailers or read the synopsis of books before I read/watch them. I just kinda hear about it however that happens, and decide to either skip or jump in. The exception to this being non-fiction or educational stuff, then it matters a bit more.

I guess, I just wanna enjoy (or dislike) a story and leave it at that.

Sorry for the total non-answer. But now you’ve got me curious, what’s your answer? Maybe I’ll make an exception for Grandwolf319 haha

I agree. After being here for a while, I realized that my feed is always depressing and negative, and the comments and discussions are as well, to the point where I pretty much stopped using Lemmy for a while. But I guess the solution is simply to seek out other communities that are more positive - there should be plenty to choose from :)

I think it is kinda the same ‘echo chamber’ problem that other social media has - I feel my own opinions are being reinforced to the extreme, and while I am glad to be with like-minded people, it is also very exhausting.

Anyway, time to go exploring new communities!

I find the discussions on Lemmy to be better quality than on Reddit, but that can also make them heavier. I can also find Reddit’s banality depressing. I’m still using both atm but I’m in the process of phasing reddit out and I’m fine with that, even if I browse Lemmy a bit differently.

Building a well-rounded community can take time.

Yea tbh it’s kinda a struggle to find hobby communities

Turns out finding a niche in an already niche community is kinda hard

What hobby community do you want to see here?

Scale model building?(tbh havent even looked yet) equivalents to the AskScienceFiction and WhoWouldWin subreddits

I have so many filters just to block depressing news… Also to block strange hive mind posts about beans etc.

That’s one thing you can do here that you (no longer) can on Reddit

Agree. But I do have a extremely long block list of communities that I find that seem to be all about news are negative shit or click bait. Lots of users and a fair about if keywords.

I figured if it’s going to make me feel like shit why not just have my feed never show me it again.

Lemmy feels very gen z ish though.

lol

That was so unexpected that I misread it and made a joke about gen x. We seem that young to you?

Take a look at !memes@lemmy.ml on any given day and tell me anyone there is ocver 30

I have that instance blocked, so I guess we’re experiencing very different versions of Lemmy.

That’s your problem… .ml is a tankie sub and most tankies are just the lefts version of the rights version of libertarians. They live in a bubble of ignorance.

Don’t wanna

We are young 🥺

Oh yes we are young! And since no less than 40 years! ^^

Like, young at heart or young enough to trust a fart?

Will you set the world on fire?

Heartache to heartache, we stand. No promises, no demands. Love is a battlefield.

Now im gonna hear that song in my head all day

Which is nice

I was spending 12 hours a day staring at screen all the way back in the 90s. It was just a 14inch CRT not a phone screen. I was Gen z before Gen z was even born.

No it doesn’t. The only active fandom community here is for Star Trek, people quote George Carlin so much that it’s made me hate bits I used to find uproarious, and it generally has a curmudgeonly feel to it.

It’s Gen X for sure.

I’m gen Z and I like trek

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And 30+ year old people who enjoyed the good times while they lasted and are now nostalgic?

We’re definitely here too

Jip :D

at 31 i barely caught the tail end of Good Internet Days but i sure fuckin miss it

I’ve been on here since I was 16 lol

Come now, at least half of Mastodon/*key users are genderqueer twentysomethings who are mind-bogglingly good with computers.

Dozens of 'em.

Like the comment said, half.

There are dozens of us!

Then there’s me a 30 something woman for whom computers dislike working

as if Captain Lezbian could ever not fit perfectly into the fediverse.

It’s OK, we can accept them as honorary members

But yet still have no idea how they work beneath the GUI. 😉

I mean, that’s verifiably false. Most of the ones I follow are in fact building the GUI.

I’m talking at the hardware level. We grew up having to build all of our PCs and learned about bus’s, SCSI, interrupts, partition tables.

The two genders of fedi

I’m in this image and I don’t like it

I’m not yet even close to 40, yet I still believe I am one of the “people who built the World Wide Web”, in the sense that I’ve been posting to it for more than 20 years (there are still old forum posts online that I wrote at the age of 10), i.e. before it was something the general public did a lot.

I’m on the one hand proud of how much it has grown and how much more popular it has become; and on the other hand, worried that this has caused governments around the world to pay a lot more attention to it and limit our freedom on it through age verification laws and similar…

Hello, it’s me, Al Gore

I dig your rhythms

Finally someone who at least knows the difference between the WWW and the Internet…

That’s information superhighway thank you very much.

That’s that series of tubes