Maxcoffee

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Go to the doc and get checked out. It could be anything from cancer to an anal fissure.

Even if it's not life threatening it will slowly get worse and the surgery to fix it if it does is one of the most painful experiences you can have. Better to address a hemorrhoid or fissure now using the various creams you can apply yourself rather than that.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

No. My time is worth more than 10k and I'd rather spend it doing stuff I like to do.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Most people won't gel with the free version though as it uses ASCII.

[–] [email protected] 142 points 1 year ago (13 children)

The challenge will be finding an actual traditional conservative instance that isn't also a pro-Nazi fascist shithole.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

People are paid to work on it tho.

Paying people doesn't necessarily translate to what you might want from it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No no no it's just China doing you a solid and backing up your sensitive information just in case you lose your phone. It uses Blockchain technology where if you ever need it back they just block you.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't hate anybody but I do hate their random bad takes and opinions on things and I don't care about their families either.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Personally I don't care about the soccer moms, my main concern is all the problems that come with being a mainstream social media platform. Threads threatens to overwhelm the content being generated with all those problems where your Lemmy feed is just going to represent Instagram etc again. Screw that.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (9 children)

They can keep their 60 million threads, most of that is complete trash anyway.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

Interesting read.

The likes of Spez were just not that intelligent enough to figure out how to make Reddit pay before the VCs called in the investments. Not that it's an easy problem to solve, but if you're going to take on money like Reddit did you sure as hell needed a better plan then leaving it up to later to figure out. Amazon had a plan clearly, Reddit did not.

Also, what Reddit is now doing mimics a little of what Facebook did too, the enshitification of your feeds (just look at the app). They're just hoping Reddit is as addictive as Facebook is and you'll stick around regardless. I wonder if they recent;y hired some new advisers that told them to make these recent changes too?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

With interest rates going up it's costing more and more to have borrowed money sitting in the likes of Reddit hoping for a nice payday one day.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

We're not even using their software now. It shows the power of open source that all of this can coexist peacefully despite differing opinions.

 

Reddit used to be a great platform to discuss some topic and get different points of few in a friendly but factual manner. However, slowly it seems like the platform has become a lot more like Facebook, where it's been invaded by toxic people that are constantly looking for opportunities to shit and hate on others.

The change has been gradual so I really didn't notice it creep up on me. It's become super evident now having used Kbin and others for a week or so where people generally seem to be more friendly again and willing to actually discuss things in a usually civil way.

The difference is stark too. Today I replied to a comment saying that I hope things turn out better for them and wound up in a weird comment chain about how people were apparently insensitive for wanting to get a basic haircut that they for some reason couldn't afford themselves. Meanwhile, Kbin and the Fediverse feels like a refreshing place to actually converse with people once you get past the clunk and figure it out.

I think Reddit may well have reached that main stream social media saturation point where it very objectively now sucks. It happened originally with the internet itself thanks to the rise of the smartphone and this is just another iteration of it. I feel like Spez might as well get that bag at this point because they've ruined what used to be the platform people went to for social media without the bullshit, without algorithms to drive "engagement" and to avoid the toxic culture that has prevailed.

Thanks for reading my rant.

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