because the only reason I still use Reddit is to interact with adults in my profession from around the world with diverse backgrounds and viewpoints and with good hearts but limited tolerance for spending time learning obscure tech

so anything to reduce the barrier of entry for those people is one less reason to ever use Reddit again. that’s a win in my book. if you want to stick to your ML communities y, that’s your right. but are you really going to change the world by shutting everyone out?

how are you over 40 and you don’t remember the boot times before SSDs?

this is an edit on an older green text, but the premise was gym, based, and cringe.

can we not body shame? there’s probably a lot of people around here who have similar body types but don’t deserve ridicule for it

i thought mastodon was part of the fediverse

yea right like the IRS has the resources to waste their time with any of us

Rasta is a whacko pseudo-Christian religion that controls women by enforcing archaic purity standards on them. The only people who think it is “cool” are abusers and ignorant white dudes with dreads who want to justify their substance use.

Readers added context?

Short-form videos, like many things in modern society (e.g. many video games) are essentially just a Skinner Box. You scroll, watch the video, get a hit of pleasure, and then the video automatically replays. That cues you to scroll. Repeat. It’s easy to get stuck in that loop, especially if you already are struggling with executive dysfunction and can’t find motivation/pleasure in ordinary activities.

I was recommended Proton a couple years ago (pre-Lemmy) by some reddit tech/piracy forum. I’ve continued to subscribe it without scrutiny or vigilance. and uhh it’s fine? works great? it’s a VPN. i can download star trek without prison time. I never game on it though

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bro forgot about the concept of hunger ☠️

“well hey you can trust a rich guy who becomes a politician, but not a politician who becomes rich!” said some poor old white lady who probably shouldn’t trust either

can you browse loops from your lemmy account though? is it really federated if there’s no cross-over? I don’t get it

also ive been using this since reddit api died and apparently I still don’t get it sooo good luck to any of the normies that we want to recruit lol

lol I absolutely agree that TikTok style content is a major contributing factor in mental unwellness (and there’s scientific data supporting that) but you have to understand that is what the majority of people are looking for. and it’s not going away, at least not any time soon, and probably not from any top-down actions of coordinated governance. we gotta accept the reality that like AI it’s part of our world now.

with that said, hey, the parent comment makes a pretty good case for why normies dont federate

id rather learn Mandarin than Linux

it seems daunting to join Lemmy, and without the catalyst forcing you to you never would have joined, right? and that’s probably going to be the default exp for most normies?

does Fediverse have a short form video content platform? cuz that’s what people really care about these days

(also side note, we all really should avoid or limit short form video content consumption…)

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at least we HAVE a public transit system