Yeah, I really hope we can get past the culture of thinking lemmy is morally superior to reddit and just focus on having something nice here that no CEO can fuck with.
One key difference I found is the lack of user karma. You have no incentive to post something "just to get karma" because there is no global karma on your profile.
This encourages to post what you want to post instead of posting something that someone posted years ago because it's easy free karma
I just noticed that thanks to your comment. I hope it stays that way on Lemmie - karma farming leads to a lot of low quality content, including bot reposts
If Lemmy accounts with a plausible history ever become valuable like Reddit accounts are, we could see the same behaviour without karma just to build up a history. But for now that seems a long way off.
I got to agree. The first thing I did was looking for my karma on my profile but then noticed quickly that it actually doesn't matter. But has it the same addiction like effect in the long run? At least I can still see people enjoying a well though out comment, which is most of the joy.
I won't lie my first reaction when I figured that out was negative (oh my god but then how will I keep track of how much people love my comments..) but the more I think about it and use Lemmy the more I like it, like a weight lifted off my shoulders.
And what you said, no point to being a karma fiend when there's no counting, so a lot less easy karma grabs going around.
(This is my second account. My first was made almost a year before this one. I initially came to Lemmy in early 2020.)
I haven’t been terribly active here. I’ve always been more of a lurker anyway unless I feel like there’s something worth piping in with. To me a place being filled with more stuff doesn’t necessarily make it better.
However, I do already see too many people trying to accelerate this place towards being Reddit in a negative way. They want celebrity AMAs. Dull memes are flooding in and being upvoted. People are trying hard to make inside jokes and call things the X of Lemmy (like the weird post about the person saying they don’t want to poop for three days). People are trying to kinda indiscriminately flood communities with copies of what’s being posted on similar Reddit communities because they think more=better.
I grew to hate Reddit over about 15 years of being there and hadn’t been using it much in recent years. I’m concerned a lot of what I didn’t like about Reddit is now being carried over. I don’t know, but to me it feels like some people are fleeing a dump and now they want to turn the new place into a dump too. And given how easy it is to flood a place, it’s not hard for a small group to do that.
Maybe it’s just me getting older. I’ve been on the verge of giving up the small bit of social media like this that I continue to use anyway.
I see, interesting perspective. I think it is somewhat natural to try and bring everything reddit-style over to lemmy right now because we all want this place to grow from the exodus at reddit. Having familiar content and communities is how we can make new members feel right at home. Over time we will properly split off and become our own thing tho.
Certainly there's some kind of algorithm behind sorting by Hot or Top Day or whatever, but it's not trying to sell me stuff or sell my preferences to anybody
The only algorithms here are for sorting posts based on activity and recency, rather than trying to maximize engagement so you see more ads. Also it's all completely open source.
Sometimes, it’s surprising how life unfolds. I remember back in my second year at boarding school, we were all set to return for another term, standing on the train station platform. Fooling around, we missed the train.
With no other options and perhaps a bit of youthful audacity, we found dads old ford and we ended up driving it all the way to school.
The car broke down, we almost got caught. Then crazily, we crashed into a famous tree on campus.
However, as wild as that was, missing that train might just have saved us.
We later found out that the Chamber of Secrets had been opened around the time we were meant to be on that train. A deadly monster, a Basilisk, was slithering around the castle, able to kill just by meeting your gaze.
Who’s to say we wouldn’t have bumped into it, had we made that train? With our track record of stumbling into trouble, it seems more than likely. It’s a chilling thought.
They made private data the „new gold“ which it is today long before social media started exploiting it. Changing their motto /code of conduct „Don’t be evil“ into „Do the right thing“ (for our shareholders) didn’t benefit their reputation either…
wouldn’t that blind passerbys? i already suffer enough from people hanging CDs to spook pigeons. I think shutters would be best here if you’re not in a rental
I fuckin’ hated it and even the idea when it was new. I liked updates and being able to download my games (even though I just had dial-up at the time; it was slow, but at least I could get any game and not just what was available at the local EB). I didn’t like the idea of not having it stored off-site, though. I didn’t like the interface or having to run an extra thing. I especially didn’t like not being able to use the online gaming services I had been using for years because they shut down WON.
The thing I like most about Steam is that games under Linux just work, for the most part. I don't play AAA games online multiplayer which is, I believe, where that falls down, but other than that it really is pretty seamless
This, my dad refuses to download proton or lutris and prefers to use wine baseline, and he has been waiting for months now for his game to be playable again, meanwhile I’m over here installing games right and left and just playing them, even newly released games, it just works (most of the time)
Even then with AAA multiplayer, it's not a guarantee it's unplayable. Every Halo game on Steam works just fine, and Apex Legends was one of the first AAA MP games to support the Deck.
Agreed. I hate, however, that I don't "own" the games, I can't play game A on computer 1 and game B on computer 2 at the same time even though I bought game A and game B.
You can with Family Sharing. It also can be done a bit easier with some games that are otherwise DRM free by just running the executable from its install directory instead of through steam. Like Kerbal Space Program.
The latter method will even sometimes allow you to play the same game on two machines over the internet. I don’t know if you can do that with Family Share.
We really need to get a search function so this post can stop being asked 1x daily by some new refugee.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m glad y’all are here and it moves a lot faster than 2y ago, but every day with this question, and no consensus has been reached. We should all just stop “asking” and let time tell us what we call ourselves, some word will win eventually.
Fair, but “working” is still a condition I put forth as desireble. Whether or not it not working is asklemmy’s fault or jerboa’s fault, it doesn’t “work.”
I’m not accusing you personally of sabotaging lemmy, we’re all cool here, I’m just saying “a working search function would be a good thing to have inside all communities on lemmy” and I’m not sure why that would be controversial.
From my end, it sounds like you want things that haven’t been developed yet and don’t like the bandaid solutions that have been added to try and help. There are a ton of things that won’t work from the different apps and again, expecting them to makes it sound like you have expectations that just can’t be met right now.
Well, what I was actually saying was that feature that hasn’t been developed yet would be cool to have.
Are we not allowed to think features that haven’t been developed yet would be good to develop? How does developing happen if one is only allowed to think current features would be good? Sure, “we have community search at home,” but I can’t still want actual McDonald’s fries? They are objectively better than orida, “real search” is better than “bandaid solutions,” honestly I don’t get why there would be pushback against the thought that “we need a real search function,” tbh, you make it sound like they’re developing it or working on it so obviously someone agrees with me, what’re we doing here? Same team dude.
If UFOs are what it takes to distract idiots from obsessing about trannies and immigrants and whatever this week’s hysteria is then yeah I’m fuckin here for it let’s go
It’s getting a bit late to associate UFOs with idiots, honestly. Both the government and NASA have frontally admitted that there are things flying around that we can’t identify. The US just shot down 3 unidentified objects with F22’s a few months ago (and no, they were not balloons like the one everyone saw pictures of - no pictures were release of these other objects). Congress is moving forwards with new legislation to force disclosure of secret special access programs related to UFOs, after Grusch’s claims, and there will be public hearings soon.
I know the subject has been ridiculed for decades, but no one in congress who has clearance and has been briefed is laughing about it now.
I was going to comment about this too, glad that you decided to instead. Incredible things are happening with disclosure. The fact that Chuck Schumer’s bill includes language on definition of non-human intelligence is insane in and of itself. Insane as in, I never thought this would happen ever. Stuff I thought I’d only see in Sci Fi.
The physical and sensor evidence is available within special access programs, and at this point no one who as been following the subject doubts that. A lot of members of congress have been briefed on those programs, and they don’t doubt that there are non-human intelligences, be it aliens or time travellers or interdimensional beings or whatever they might be.
The thing is we both are going to get downvoted into oblivion. People who are not aware of the latest developments still see the term UFOs and think “loonies”. I am actually a bit scared that disclosure is finally upon us, and many people will have a hard time updating their worldviews.
Bro we have seen the latest developments, but we're not "scared" because we're not fucking idiots. It's not aliens. It's some dudes making shit up to make a name for themselves, some dipshit pilots misunderstanding what they're seeing, and fucking eejits like you making it into something it's not.
I rest my case. How will someone like you react when it ends up being officially recognized as something even weirder than “space aliens from Mars”, I don’t know.
This made it so big people outside of Lemmy were talking about it. I overheard some co-workers talking about it and I was like you’re on Lemmy?? And they were confused.
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