Comparisons to users on other social media networks would be useful, yeah.

I don’t think I ever learned how to properly source information from primary works until college. I didn’t really get it until grad school.

Kinda the same for the scientific method. In high school it was just a thing you learn and memorize, but barely ever applied, if at all, in the actual curriculum. I wish it had been impressed upon me at a much earlier stage of my life why the scientific method is so useful and how it led to the sheer boom in our knowledge as a species. Like, they do tell us… but we didn’t really get it. I’ve heard others had better teachers… But it really would be better if the system didn’t have to rely on winning the teacher lottery.

Never really thought about it that way, but that’s a decent point.

Yeah. It all worked out. Married a nice person, have a kid, the whole deal. But god I could not read the room for YEARS.

God, that final bit. I was a resident assistant for my dorm in college for a year. Didn’t date anyone that year. Had plenty of crushes, including plenty from the dorm. At the end of the year, my coworkers (female RAs) were like, “yeah we were all so surprised you didn’t go out with anyone, like, half the girls here were in love with you.” And I just stared into the middle distance, “and you didn’t think to tell me???”

“We thought you knew!”

“I DID NOT”

I think you’re hung up on how Big Tech has designed feeds with the express purpose of keeping you there for as long as possible, or even more perversely, as enraged as possible.

But algorithms can be made to serve other purposes, and I think the fediverse could do with a curation algorithm. Or even better, multiple choices for algorithms to suit your preferences and needs. From what I’ve heard, Bluesky offers something along those lines, which has contributed to its adoption rates.

I think if Lemmy devs wanted, they could probably come up with some great starter options. Heck, maybe they make it easier for everyone to customize their own algorithms. Not sure how far you get without knowing how to code that sort of thing directly, but even a little would go a long way, I bet.

I was going to disagree, but I realized you said “complacent” and not “guilty”. Yeah. He was certainly complacent as far as I know.

Fair.

Yeah… I get the point but like, man, there’s a reason we feel helpless out here. I’ll probably still hear about political stuff through sheer osmosis, but what can I do to affect presidential actions other than vote?

The only things within my power are local, mutual aid type stuff, which is important, but has no effect on what Trump et al can or cannot get away with at a federal level.

I dunno. Maybe I’m just overly pessimistic.

New Yorker, not the New York Times.

In contrast, I have never been able to see blue and black, even though that’s objectively what it is.

So that’s “getting shittier” but not “enshittification”. The latter is explicitly a profit-motive driven phenomenon, coined by Cory Doctorow in 2023. Here’s the original post he made about it: https://doctorow.medium.com/tiktoks-enshittification-bb3f5df91979

As a full ass adult who just very recently discovered I have ADHD, I feel both called out and seen.

Is he bragging that it’s the same deal? My interpretation is that he is complaining that “this is the same shit I wrote 7 months ago. What the fuck changed?”

But I dunno. I’m largely baffled by the whole affair.

Don’t know why, but I’m getting Sarazanmai vibes.

For anyone else who was unfamiliar:

Linear economy is a system in which people buy a product, use it, and then throw it away. The term linear refers to the straight progression that a product can follow, with a beginning, a middle and an end. There is no thought along the line regarding recycling or reuse. (per https://www.eib.org/en/stories/linear-economy-recycling#%3A~%3Atext=Linear+economy+is+a+system%2Cline+regarding+recycling+or+reuse.)

Oh. Thank you for pointing that out.

Still have no idea what that means, but I’m guessing by context there was some form of drama.

Eh. Good enough for me.

Is this about outsiders looking into the vegan community or the other way around? Sorry, meme format is just throwing me off.

Yeah, that’s fair.

My guess is X will always be around, but a best case scenario is it dwindles in relevance and it becomes just another social media site, instead of the relative giant it is. The good news is Twitter was always an energetic but comparatively small social media network (relative to Facebook and Instagram). Really all it needs to fade into irrelevancy is the loss of those driver accounts that feed the rest of the site.

Fingers crossed, I guess.

Depends on who is leaving, I’d say. The biggest draw to Twitter, from my outside perspective anyway, is news. Headlines, sure, but especially live, on the ground coverage.

If news orgs quit X, that’ll be a big blow. Some left already, but I can’t remember who it was off the top of my head.

But if breaking news, like protesters posting updates live, start coming majority from somewhere other than X (most likely Bluesky at this point), that will really signal the beginning of the end for Xs relevancy.

Just my $.02, to be taken with a large grain of salt.