Gay, autistic and pissed off at Reddit. Let’s see how things go here.
I take the occasional peek to see if it imploded yet. I do miss certain communities. Only last week I was looking for some info on a historical subject. Google turned up nothing so I wanted to r/askHistorians. I hate they decided to stay on reddit and don’t switch to lemmy.
At some point in the future, everyone who is currently alive, will be dead and the earth will be populated with people who do not exist yet.
Since I was born when my parent were in their late 30’s. And my father was as well, so my paternal grandfather was born in the 1890’s. When I was a kid he told me stories of his childhood. I was only 9 when he died, and at the time his stories were just that; stories. Now (I’m in my 50’s) I wish I had asked him things about those times. He was born and grew up in a world (mostly) without electricity, and without cars, phones, etc.
He was someone from a totally different world, and I knew him.
Added later: He was born “only” 129 years ago, everyone alive then, is now dead.
I’m wondering/imagining. Did he walk into a diy store to get that thing himself or did one of his employees do it? Did he buy it an hour before or a day before? What goes through one’s mind to think “I’ll go buy a sink and have my picture taken with it, that’ll be funny”. Was there a meeting about this?
ohh, hyped about the scents… my olfactory nerve is trembling in anticipation, and I’m losing control of my sphincter. Which is never a good combination.
It’s up in the air how many will stay and how many will slowly forget their outrage at Reddit and go back.
If I wasn’t already that truth would make me depressed.
which users should keep in mind
That is my point. Users should not be burdened by such things. Sure, a site has a code of conduct, but if I need to keep track of multiple codes of conducts on “one site” it becomes a burden. Again, just my thoughts, I hope it will work out. Rooting for lemmy and the downfall of Reddit at this point (for no other reason that I am an unreasonably moral bitch).
As a programmer myself I get what you’re saying. But for the average user -I suspect- it is just extra, unimportant, information which could be confusing. (It adds no value nor importance)
The problem with analogies is that they will break down at some point. Not to be pedantic or semantic, but social media is not the same thing as an email. It’s not about understanding email but about signing up to a website and finding things of interest without having to think about how it works. Sadly, most people just want things “to work” without having to go through a learning curve, no matter how small. But I could be wrong.
You are not wrong. But that is not user-centric. I think this fediverse has potential, but it needs to find a way to make it more human-centric rather than technical-centric. If it fails, it will probably be because it fails to be intuitive. (just my gut feeling)
Quality content is one thing. Engagement is another. I see lots of new posts that are good, but little to no comments. What we need is a few good communities with lots of engagement. On reddit I was more of a lurker, here I will start to do my best to comment more in the hopes it helps. (Still, my comments will probably be stupid and uninteresting, so it might do more harm than good, lol)
I agree completely with what you say. But I also recognise that a lot of people get confused by all this “techno-babble”. To be honest, I am (admittedly an old) programmer, and I was hesitant and confused at first. I think the average user shouldn’t be concerned with instances. Why do I need to see <user>@<instance> and <community>@<instance>. Just drop the “@instance” (put it in a tooltip at least) and just make community-names unique across all instances (you could still have the same communityname in different instances, but give them a fediverse-alias which is unique)
This is going to be a total noob (and thus stupid) question, but is it possible to selfhost a vpn?