Ayy, Rudy!

This is the video that led me to actually start taking a hard look at social media (I was already off of Instagram, but that was almost unconscious in that I just started loathing the app), and led me down the rabbit hole that eventually led me to Lemmy!

Inb4 they start making tiktoks about ignoring the calming music

This is such a well written piece, it’s closer to a serious article than a blogpost

I was right there as well. I saw creators I trust putting out stuff talking about the state of social media today (Technology Connections on YouTube in particular) and that was around when I started diving back into bluesky, then after a little more reading around, mastodon and lemmy. Never looked back after that.

Just posted there 6 hours ago, hopefully that picks up steam

!fakealbumcovers@lemm.ee got a lot of interest, but the higher barrier to entry means I’m still the only one posting. Edit: We have a new poster!

I did just promote it at !fakebandnames@lemmy.world, which should help a bit.

!haiku@lemm.ee by contrast already has a few other people posting, and I’m happy with how it’s growing so far.

Fingers crossed it doesn’t end the same way

In No Country For Old Men, they mention this killing in a throwaway line (it involves contract killing and stars Woody Harrelson)

If only Lemmy were ready for c/antimeme (and the confusingly adjacent c/bonehurtingjuice)

Oh, that’s really cool! Thanks

Considering what brought me here, I’ll take finicky over maliciously designed any day. :)

Ah, I see. Thanks!

I think it’s fair to choose the smaller instance then, in the interest of diversification.

I think decades of minimalist, ‘intuitive’ interfaces that abstract what’s going on in the background have made us too lazy to go beyond the bare minimum to switch platforms in general.

A common criticism I saw of the fediverse was the fact that you have to decide on an instance. As if any significant part of your life doesn’t require a certain amount of research before making a decision. We all just buy the car that the dealership tells us to buy, of course.

I remember reading a book that talked about public spaces and how we often think of malls as public spaces, but they have so many restrictions and ulterior motives that it doesn’t really hold.

They’re essentially the irl equivalent of centralised social media platforms. I hope once the fediverse really takes off, we can have ‘official’ platforms/instances that are run by governments that federate only to other ‘official’ ones. That seems like a better way to reach people, instead of Xitter.

As a fellow weed moment haver, this is one of the good ones.