Lemmy "feels refreshing" because it is new to you. This deliveres a dopamine hit to your brain because we inherently find new things exciting.
As a concept it is the same public forum we have had for a long time. But it is decentralised which does help with restricting the ability of single groups of people from taking control of the native, so that is a good side-effrct.
It seems to me, you’re just not gonna find many of the niche type subs around - and then you’ve got parallel subs scattered around other instances. I’m still very new to this too but there is a sub called New Communities that is pretty active with new places to join:
Giant ugly concrete buildings with tubes connecting them because it's too hot to go outside. Children haven't ever seen the sky except for in photographs. There are vents everywhere to keep the buildings cool, but it's still hot. The majority of social interaction will happen over the internet because everyone is isolated into their own "apartments". Thankfully, due to the mass pushback against billionaires hoarding wealth, everything will be cheaper. Everything gets delivered by AI robots/drones to families through amazon or some other delivery conglomerate, there is no in-person shopping. This includes things like groceries.
I really hope it doesn't end up like this, but based on how things are going, that's my unfortunate expectations for the future.
Well in that scenario, I think we surely would invent suits to let people at least go outside and perform tasks. Still bleak af tho and not too far fetched maybe
as someone with IBS, cold/frozen liquids are the way to go... pun fully intended. it might be a bit difficult to keep things cool, but frozen sports drinks and the like are good for keeping you going. it's really unhealthy, and i absolutely can't recommend it, but it should work. you get a lot of your water intake from food, too, so if it's not getting any of that, the water you ingest from liquids/frozen liquids is gonna get sucked up by your large intestine and, in theory, you'll need the toilet less. good luck with, uh. your thing.
I just want to take care of my little corner of the world. Take care of me and mine, have enjoyable experiences, make memories and try to avoid being evil.
I can't do much about the big stuff (other than vote). It's going to get worse before it gets better (if it ever gets better) but no point worrying.
Big same. I've spent the last 30 years arguing (and voting) for sustainable policies and environmental regulations, but what little progress has been made is woefully insufficient. I did my best, but obviously humanity doesn't actually want to survive.
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.
Not to mention the areas that would have been OK after climate change are devastated by mass migration of tens of millions more people than they could've sustainably supported
asklemmy
Hot
This magazine is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.