Liontigerwings

Maybe I’m wrong, but I assumed this is more a concern for mastadon.

Running a social media company is not at all like running a normal tech company. It’s one part technology, but it’s one part psychology. He doesn’t understand the psychology part whatsoever. He doesn’t understand stand why people choose to engage or not engage with a community. He doesn’t understand how and why Twitter became part an important news and information source and all of decisions he’s made so far have reduced the relevance of the product.

Twitter verified status is there to help people trust Twitter, not just the person behind the checkmark. Now nobody trust your product. It also doesn’t take a genius to understand that limiting access to your product makes people use it less.

If the docile sheep up North don’t go for it, then there’s no way the slightly less docile sheep South will go for it.

Not sure. But I am still using Apollo and I don’t plan on downloading the official app when it dies so at the very least, I will go from 70/30 fediverse to almost 100 percent fediverse.

I’d rather federate with Google plus. I need to get back in touch with my old circles. ;)

I think the main issue is the growth isn’t linear. It’s sporadic. Usually a big bump after every Reddit fuck up. Lots of bumps lately. Another one coming on the 30th.

I think the example of it working like email is the most intuitive for most people. We can all understand that @yahoo.com and @gmail.com interact with eachother despite being different service.

I would also make 1 or 2 recommendations of an instance you like because the overwhelming choice is too much for people. Imagine if you never heard of gmail or yahoo or outlook. Why choose those over @abcjoe.com? When @abcjoe.com end up sucking they’ll probably just think all email sucks.

I don’t think you’re using the word gaslighting correctly

Through wifi. They used to have IR blasters that work just like the real remote

Turns out any time you’ve heard Zuckerberg over the last 10 years it was actually this ai voice model.

Is that not what Chromium is? An open source browser that anyone can adapt to suit their needs.

Yes. They didn’t personally ask me. It’s just one of the intake questions questions.

Maybe they just wanted to go in depth? No clue

I applied like twice. Wrote the same thing in phrasing though. I applied I think the day before the blackout first (no response) and then about like 4 days ago and got a message yesterday that I was denied and I could try to apply again another time. This first time I applied I maybe have referenced that I was fleeing reddit so maybe they didn’t like me talking about it (though I’m sure it’s true od like 90 percent of their users).

I suppose it’s possible the denial i got was just a really late reply to my first attempt.

I answered honestly, and I think it was probably about five sentences. I’m definitely not a robot or a bully, and they still denied me. maybe it’s because I brought up developing a sports community.

They asked what I thought I could add to the community and I wrote something about sports and apparently they aren’t interested in that so they denied me.

Someone correct me if I am wrong but ai editor implies the writer will remain and they’re using ai ton “fix” the article and write the headline. Isn’t that one of the main responsibilities of an editor?

please correct me if I’m wrong, but I think this will even block a video on a normal feed with a lot of swearing if someone marks it NSFW.

Let me walk you through my process. Go to join-lemmy and then realize I can’t just join Lemmy, I need to choose a server. So now why go to one place over another. I picked one initially that I didn’t like and apparently isn’t a big one. Then I try beehaw. Beehaw tells me I need to wait to be approved but I can’t even tell if my application went through. Still to this day I am not 100 percent sure if it went through.

Then I joinn sh.itjust.works and hey, great name. Shit just worked. From there it’s not terrible to figure things out but you quickly realize that Lemmy has some rough edges that are obviously going to be a barrier for the masses. Combine that with the fact that the communities simply aren’t quite there yet and it just makes sense. Lemmy is a great start with a ton of potential but I can’t fault the average user for not being ready to make the jump.

The difficulty of entry to fediverse will be the difference between being a reddit replacement and being a separate much smaller community. I don’t fault a non tech minded person for not putting in the effort to learn a new service that they have no attachment to.

C’mon. No single instance has as many users as any of the top 20 sub reddits I bet. Spreading out over 5 main instances is fine. The important thing is if one instance shits the bed, you have options. If the community isn’t served properly they can easily jump to a new instance.