I'm not sure I agree with that statement. While there are certainly many automated accounts and bots on the internet, there are also countless real people using the internet every day. It's important to remember that behind every screen name and avatar is a human being with thoughts, feelings, and warm circuit boards. Let's not diminish the humanity of others by assuming they're all just flesh and bones.
And, of course it's a Florida man.
I have a few ideas on how to clog my bowels. I really can't wait to contribute!!!
What year is it!?
What if I aim low? Like, "please include the letter c in your next commit"? Will that hit hard enough? Or should I go for a whole word? Come on, I need this!
To be fair, I see this said about republicans, and even center/independents, all the time. Dehumanizing is never good.
If I win, I’m going to double my keys and give them to the next person.
Well, there's always whitespace!
And, they'll all still be wrong!
Part of the issue is that the “nazi” line is being placed haphazardly. For example, this comment will be enough for some people to put me on the “nazi” side, without knowing anything about me.
near as much about republicans
That’s a pretty poor metric/goal, but you’re obviously right. But, dehumanizing large swaths of strangers is bad. That template, used by anyone, is bad. Full stop.
I think jokes and empathy can be somewhat orthogonal. In fact, I think any stable society/org requires a court jester. But dang, the amount of dehumanization, lack of empathy, and sometimes joy, I see is really scary. There are some angry, empty, people on the internet, that I hope to never meet in real life.
Every single day. They’re built into the IDE. It’s easier to use them than to not use them.
I’ve replaced probably 70% of my searching with ChatGPT.
Did you do performance comparisons between Wayland and X11, or is your metric subjective?
Lots of reddit will find themselves unwelcome in Lemmy and by various instance admins.
Do you have some examples?
I think a reasonable approach would be to include little javascript mini games. "Score 50 or higher!" with no instructions provided.
edit: using a server side rendered canvas/logic, so no cheating. Damn, this is probably a million dollar idea.
I don't know, I was there in the beginning. I think it died because it had no real content, compared to reddit. And, all anyone talked about was reddit, or reposted stuff from reddit, just like we're seeing here. I think this might stick a bit better because reddit is way bigger than it was back then, so even if the same super small % of users came over, it would still be quite a bit more content.
For comparison of how negligible all the Lemmy fediverse is, there are ~40k active users this month. Reddit has over 50 million active users. So, that's around 0.1% of reddit users. Literally 99.9% of reddit are not here.
I think it's probably doomed. It'll never overtake reddit. But, it'll be a nice, quiet, alternative.
edit: Here's a quick litmus test for all the downvoters (I guess "correct" answers only here!). How many times have you gone to reddit today?
edit: I was part of this attempted migration, not the hate one. This isn't the first blackout for reddit being shitty.
edit: I humbly apologize for my personal, speculative, opinion about the unknowable future. The downvotes have made me realize my math was wrong, my opinion is wrong, and I am wrong. My corrected opinion is that Lemmy will overtake Meta, Mastadon, Twitter, and Google (wtf is reddit!?), and every upvote will be worth $1000, making everyone rich! Or, we can have fun guessing, and wait and see how things go. I hope they go well!
That’s completely unrealistic.
"Local filtering" makes it sound like that's removed, lol. I think the button could definitely be renamed "Show only this instance" or something.
Taking away popular apps to a social network that doesn't have any yet? What?
We would have to see the user stats related to reddit app usage, to talk in an informed way about this, along with the assumption that reddit doesn't improve their app, which will probably be forced onto spez.
your ridiculous all or nothing speculation
How is it ridiculous? It's my 2 cent opinion, lightly founded in observation of when this happened several times in the past, with reddit and several other platforms, to a question, in a forum of less that 1k people, that requires speculation about the future.
Are you going to downvote all of the people saying it will succeed? Wtf? What is the correct answer to this question? And who's allowed to give it? There's not a correct or incorrect answer here, just a bunch of idiots guessing. If you don't understand that everyones opinion for this answer is fairly worthless here, then you're emotional and/or tribalistic. Feel free to influence the future with downvotes though. I'll continue enjoying reading what people have to say.
Ok, now let's ask the 99.9% of Redditors that aren't here. You take the left 25,000,000, I'll take the right, meet back in 5. Go!
edit: Oh man, I'm out of breath. We might need help. How about every single lemmy user helps us! That's only about 1,300 people we each have to ask! Well, 1,299 for me. At 4 seconds each, that's should only be about 1.5 hours. See you all soon!
Detecting and blocking whole instances with many bots is somewhat trivial. Blocking and detecting some number of bots in an instance with 10k users, with an ever growing number of human users, is much harder.