I would dare to say doomscrolling in lemmy is impossible

Could just be my ADHD but I’d like to contest this. Maybe we need to be really careful about the communities we follow, but besides Linux stuff and some other niche group there’s a lot of politics on Lemmy, and while there’s a lot of insightful discussion there’s a high concentration of unhinged doomerism.

I sometimes feel like I’m addicted, not because of the algorithm but because of the feedback loop that I need to know what’s going on, and I want to reach out and communicate…

Oo I haven’t gotten to use this one for a while. How do people feel about (covert or otherwise) advertisers in their spaces to interact with other humans?

Since a picture is worth a thousand words.

That meme was pretty popular on Twitter. Many people would harass profit seeking companies with it, block all advertising accounts, etc. Because they were there to communicate with each other. (And sometimes to publicly shame bad companies.)

…But they lost that battle because the platform itself was designed to enable and push ads. The users were always the product.

The Fediverse works differently. It is yours, mine, OURS.

If me and my friends made a game and we’re excited about it? We can share it to a gamedev group primarily to talk about it, even if it has a steam page and people ask, sure. If it offers something for the community to discuss and engage (positively) over, it’s a good thing.

If the point of the post was to “How do ya do, fellow kids?” In order to shill, it’s gonna get sniffed out real fast. Lots of for-profit cloud services try this nonsense and get busted.

The world is in a scary place right now, and everyone’s looking for their next get rich quick easy money gold rush. The Fediverse is specifically trying to block that sleeze so people can be free to genuinely communicate without some polo-clad intern marching up to our coffee table and trying to tell us all the wonderful benefits of Starbucks.

The Fediverse is not an “untapped market.” It’s designed to be a “tap resistant un-market.”

At its best, it’s a town square where we behave like humans and discuss ideas, rather than a bazarr where you can’t hear your friends because everyone’s hawking goods in your face and screaming about their “GrEaT dEaLs!!!111one”.

If you’re a business that actually seeks to be a genuine part of the community and benefit it in more ways than just sales, there might be a place for you. Being a co-op with ethical labor practices will take you far.

But nobody’s going to swallow that “EdUcAtE aBoUt HoW yOuR pRoDuCt ImPrOvEs LiVeS!” swill here.

Hope this helps!

No notes. Poetry. Bravo!

LOL the computer monitor: “You are a bitch!” :(

Ahhh, the Internet lol.

Do I miss the read/write speed? No. Do I miss the capacity? No.

…But I sure DO miss storage media that makes a satisfying “Kachunk” when loaded, and could be forcefully ejected like a spent artillery casing.

I’ve seen a few projects that stuff a bunch of flash memory into a floppy for crazy storage capacity, which is pretty cool. Maintains that nostalgia and commands much more respect than one of those ridiculously tiny little USBs that’s easy to lose! :p

LOL! Finding this song in the wild made my week. Thanks for that. XD

Monkey Island is such a treasure:

“You just don’t know when to quit, do you?!”

“Apparently neither did your barber.”

Plot twist: it’s a NORAD system recovery diskette.

Yeah, there’s always somebody that might learn something new by coming across it for the first time. :D

The Icon of Saving!

Sounds like something worth questing for!

(Ethereal choir singing)

☁️💾☁️

I hope you enjoy it! :D

I’ll have to find this one! Also a Stephen Chow movie?

YES. I only saw it once and I want to show it to someone else with no explanation! That movie had us rolling.

I have one for you too:

“Marcel the Shell With Shoes On”

I just grabbed it off the shelf from my library because it looked interesting. Never heard of it before.

I went in completely blind and fell in love. Just hit play and settle in. Absolutely lovely.

That and Shaolin Soccer are sacred films to me. :D

Seize the means of recreation I guess? Lol

Nah I think you’re on the money. As someone with ADHD, those worthless little updoots and infinity-scrolling are almost as bad as any algorithm!

ICBW and YMMV

YTMND. 👍

THANK. YOU. You put it more succinctly where I struggle to.

Right now most even-keeled folks can agree we’re all very upset, but it’s the same with trying to start a union and march up to the boss’s office: Oh sure, everybody enjoys a good grumble in the breakroom but are they gonna back you up? Worse, are they gonna rat you out?

Whether out of ignorance, desperation, hopelessness, or all three, we have a large proportion of people that just wanna “keep their head down.” and “stay out of trouble.” Even if it means suffering.

Our culture is also pathetically fractured sometimes. Once we get over the “should we do something” hurdle, the question becomes what, who, and how. And everybody’s seemingly got a morally-superior position to everyone else, and budging is not an option for them. Unfortunately while we’re all scoring zings on each other, organizing and running roughshod over everyone else comes much more easily for those with an authoritarian bent.

… Twitter?

Hahaha I’ve heard it described as “competence porn.”

I’ve heard similarly positive things about “Madam Secretary.”

Huge red flags…

…are missing from the proposed blast staging site, this is massively unsafe. :(