As planned

really good points. Thanks for the thoughtful response. I find the forum format the most comfy, but I’m the techy one so I think you’re right that others would probably prefer chats

zulip could work I think. Hadn’t heard of it / considered it before now.

What I’m envisioning is smaller communities that aren’t open to everyone like school / family / friends based communities.

After making the above comment I started reading about self hosting a lemmy instance with the idea that I might run one for my relatives and I to share photos, plan vacations, help w homework etc

May the next iteration of the internet include more people journeying to smaller communities that fit them, and less scooping everyone up and exposing them to as much outrage as possible to addict them.

Ideally all social media use goes to near zero

Haha, that is a pretty hilarious visual. Do we get funny hats?

Well I feel like have to kick this off with

Rain World

Have you played Return of Obra Dinn? Also Inscryption, the creator is half mad

Does anyone know if mastadon people can be followed from a lemmy account? I think I saw a way but having trouble finding the post now

Thanks for testing that

agreed, its a balance like most things

Also note that in a federated network fragmentation is not bad and this is the shift in thinking everyone needs coming from facebook/twitter/reddit.

Those networks didn’t talk to each other so you had to fight a battle to get everyone in the same place for the best experience. This centralized power and data and allowed people to exploit you.

In a federated network, you get the content whereever you are and everyone has incentive to share. Duplicates create a robust ecosystem that cannot be taken down by 1 power hungry individual.

There is no reason to have a single community for any topic.

For me mastadon didn’t ‘stick’ but I was never a big twitter user. So I failed to jump from from the big social networks to mastadon because the experience was weird. I guess you can follow lemmy communties but I had no idea how to find them and it mostly looked like following other people like on twitter.

Whereas the UI and everything on lemmy is much more like what Im used to it (reddit) - so it ‘stuck’ for me.

I still have the mastadon account collecting dust and might go back over there now that I understand more, but as I prefer to follow subjects over people I dont feel like Im missing out

My best advice on this is to pick one small community you want the most and contribute a little content each day. Kinda turns the sadness into a fun creative exercise.

someone put this into the skeleton knocking on doors meme

2/3, and linux-curious so yes

Sure I think thats fair. My larger point is that everyone is biased over time by their hobbies and professions, and we should be careful how harshly we judge others by our yardstick.

Great content here, thanks

I’m just curious if you’re a tech worker? (or a teenager interested in tech)

I ask because I feel like people who work in tech are basically exposed to the dangers of web privacy all the time. I remember having to implement a facebook pixel on a website, and realizing the network of surveillance that facebook have spread across the web at that time. So I have pretty decent privacy behaviors, still far from great but maybe slightly above average.

But when I go to the doctor and I mention how often I eat fast food and drink alcohol, or when I go to the dentist and admit I don’t floss everyday - I’m sure those people are thinking ‘most people seriously don’t care about their health’. They might stop short of ‘fucking idiot’, hopefully.

You’ve been here 25 days and not made a single contribution until the last 2 days where you’ve been posting about defederation. Now this place is ‘dead’?

You are trying to control everyone else’s behavior, but your own doesn’t even match your demands. Because you’re demanding perfection and real things aren’t perfect.