Sota4077

Well you have a binary choice. Trump or Biden. Both will fund genocide.

Welcome to all you new folks! Water is great!

I would say, it’s less sad and more liberating to be honest with you. I’ll certainly continue to use Reddit in the long term, but it will be much more in frequently than it was in the past. Moving forward I think this is going to be the primary place where I spend my time. It’ll be cool to see it grow from what it was just a month ago.

Oh I have all the faith in the world that someone will come up with a solution eventually. I just assume it was never a major priority because of the userbase. With an explosion of users I’m sure they have a 100 things they want to improve and it is just a matter of time.

That seems to be what basically every person is doing lately. They act like there is no difference between Lemmy and Reddit. Sure, signing up is easy. But understanding subscriptions is a different situation entirely.

It isn’t hard to sign up for. No one is saying that is the case. It gets confusing when people start talking about adding subscriptions from other instances and how you can copy and paste the link and subscribe. That right there is where 95% of the people on the internet stop caring.

If the developers of Lemmy and the wider Fediverse ever get that fleshed out in an intuitive way I think popularity will go pretty fast.

That and long term if there is a way for information to be collectively backed up so that if some owner shuts down an instance everything isn’t gone.

Why do you feel LinkedIn is creepy? Just curious. Out of all the social media presence I currently have LinkedIn seems to me like the only one that is actually benefiting me. I post very little on there unless I am promoting a professional achievement.

I am pretty open about my life and profession online. If someone were to dig into me they would become bored pretty fast.

No need to virtue signal, friends. There’s no stage. ;)

I have seen very little of that here to be truthful. There are always people that live online and only formulate their opinions on what they see online or on social media. But thus far Lemmy has not had many people either left or right politically that have been shoving anything down others throats. It has been chill and I hope it stays that way for a long while.

If you wan to become a streamer just answer one question. Are you content streaming to absolutely no one and on a good day you might have 3-5 people pop in. Your best day you may see 15-20 people. If you are comfortable with that then go for it.

The reality is that streaming requires charisma which most people do not have. It requires immense drive which most people lack. It requires long term dedication that most are unwilling to give. It requires luck which you have no control over and more than anything it requires you to be chronically online which is absolutely terrible for the vast majority of people.

I’m guessing this will be a recurring thing that happens in the future where folks get burned out.

Yeah there are a lot of communities out there where there is just a bot that appears to be mirroring what is posted on the subreddit it mirrors. There are a ton of posts like that I have seen.