I’ve moved on, I only use reddit when I want to find already existing stuff.
I hate the idea that most people have on lemmy that every interaction has to be a positive experience and full of sunshine and rainbows and butterflies. I like to argue.
But whatever. It’s iight. I stuck around.
Debate me, betch. ;)
- switched to a split ergonomic mechanical keyboard
- working on a fork of Lemmy geared toward inventory called “Lemventory”
- moderating multiple Lemmy communities that are basically ghost towns (and I don’t care)
- got rid of my Instagram (and all centralized forms of social media except YouTube) and replaced it with Pixelfed and others
- letting my NixOS flag fly much more regularly now
- hexbear defederation only created a Streisand Effect and piqued my curiosity about Marxism. I’m now much better educated about it and have come to conclude that lemmy.world is basically filled with smug, tech-bro, hive-mind, blue maga, chuds that support censorship of simple ideas and subscribe to blind, disingenuous American exceptionalism that wouldn’t even stand up to the most generous critical analysis.
I’m both curious and clueless about what “geared towards inventory” could possibly mean
Here’s the gist of my idea so far:
stores (or alliances of stores in similar industries) :: instances
inventory items :: posts
counts :: votes
item categories (or entire stores depend on implementation) :: communities
moderators are only allowed to post items to their own community or instance.
comments can still exist (perhaps as item reviews with the same upvote/downvote mechanic).
No actual transactions would be processed over this protocol. It would be solely for inventory broadcast/aggregation (like Shopify in that it houses the inventory of many vendors except without the transaction ability built-in since pub-sub is horrible for that kind of thing).
Edit: if you have any opinions (even “what a stupid idea!”) I’d be open to them. I haven’t even written a single line of code yet and it’s a fresh idea in my head waiting to be shot down by someone less idealistic than myself.
Congrats, how good is the lua-language-server in neovim?
I’m not sure since I don’t write any lua. But, I’d recommend tree-sitter if you haven’t used it yet.
i’m better at rust now
I love watching rust videos, never played and don’t think I have the right mentality to enjoy it, but it looks like such a cool game.
… or are you talking about the language?
I love watching rust videos, never tried it but can’t wait to use it in a project. It looks like such a cool language.
yep one of the languages lemmy is made with
Finally tried it yesterday! Just the “getting started” “guess the number” game and some multithreading stuff from the guide. Freaking love it already!
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I haven’t gone back to Reddit since the rapture. The only time I use it is for Google results.
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I use Lemmy A LOT less than Reddit. This is a good thing imo.
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Since it’s a smaller community I find that my posts and comments get a lot more traction.
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I miss the smaller niche subs. Yes I know that I should contribute and make it a thing on Lemmy. No I won’t because I’m mostly a lurker and would rather just close the app than do any work.
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I like how the platform is full of socialist/communist but it can become a bit of an echo chamber.
Overall I am happy with the change. Fuck Spez.
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I want to like this place.
People seem too aggressive here though.
And apparently everyone’s hobby is using Linux and neurodiverging.
I simply block communities I’ll never engage with. For instance, the “all” view on Lemmy is chock full of trans community content. Nothing against trans folks, I just don’t care about it, and would similarly block a boating community that was all over the default view.
I dunno - at first it was promising, but today I was actually thinking of leaving Lemmy and trying to find a larger site.
I’m not sure if the entire Internet has somehow become addicted to groupthink or if this is just a symptom of Lemmy’s smaller size and a selection bias, but it’s been getting worse and worse over the past nine months and it’s definitely turning me off to the community here.
What I loved about Reddit was that on any given story you saw a number of well informed opinions debating the nuances of those opinions. You’d learn so much more by engaging with the comments than just reading the article itself.
But here it seems more and more to be turning into a confirmation bias machine, where discourse and nuance takes a back seat to conformity to locally populist narratives. I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve been downvoted for linking to multiple recent research papers (from places like Harvard and MIT) because the implication of those papers was contrary to popularly held beliefs here.
While I’ve had a few good interactions, it’s become less and less of a signal to noise ratio on those interactions.
It’s possible this is a larger trend, but I haven’t noticed it to nearly the same degree on other less generalized forums I spend my time, so I suspect it’s just a Lemmy thing.
A shame, as I think the tech is outstanding. But as is often the case, good tech is only part of a product, and in the case of social media it’s the community too, and I’ve been growing increasingly disappointed in Lemmy’s community who likes to pat themselves on the back for a welcoming spirit with the apparent unmentioned footnote in small print that it’s a welcoming spirit that only extends to people regurgitating their own opinions back to them.
It’s nice to rarely deal with trolls. I say rarely, as I’ve seen a few users recently argue, just to be assholes.
Ironically, both appear to be very heavy Lemmy posters, and one seems to be downvoting me, still.
That said, I’ve actually met users I run into semi regularly in others posts, which is a nice change.
I’ve already moved on. Couldn’t care less about Reddit any more.
Before the APIcalypse, I was already playing with the thought of quitting Reddit. Spez just sped up that process.
The admins made it really easy to quit when they suspended me after RvW for saying that riot police should quit their jobs en masse
But somehow straight up calling for the end of trans people is totally fine and dandy by them
I’ve already moved on. Couldn’t care less about Reddit any more.
This.
But not much has changed, functionally, for me: I still get downvoted when I point out where people can improve their English and surpass my nephew when he was in the third grade. And I still get to debate technical things based on what I know, so that’s really no change. Different pile, is all.
Not here to fight you, but this line of thinking might be why people downvote you for being a language/grammar nazi.
Correcting someone’s English also almost never adds anything to the conversation at hand, which is the literal purpose of the downvote.
no. it’s a disagree button!
i downvote because 99% af the time people already know how to write, they just don’t want to bother fixing that single error or just wanted to make a quick comment, also it is boring
idownvote because 99%afthe time people already know how to write, they just don’t want to bother fixing that single error or just wanted to make a quick comment, also it is boringI* of*
Can I has downvote please?
I CAN ACTUALLY POST ON c/asklemmy NOW!!
Back when I was like 13 and on reddit, I posted what I thought was a good open question to askreddit, and it immediately got deleted with no stated reason. Now, I can ask any interesting question I have, and receive tons of interesting responses from people!
A lot of the same Reddit mods have transferred to other major communities. Unfortunately you’ll likely still hit the same issue over here, I’ve already been banned by one outrageous mod for disagreeing with him.
Best part about lemmy, ban that user/community/instance and move on.
