ArtificialHoldings

There are so few open source games, they have just cemented a permanent audience for themselves for the next 10 years by announcing this.

Fediverse can't sustain many niche communities with its level of activity. Even gaming communities on lemmy don't have enough traffic to constitute communities for individual games. I can't do after-episode TV discussions on Lemmy because there wouldn't be enough people commenting to warrant it. If I wanted to search for a D&D game in my local community (a huge US city), I couldn't do it via Lemmy.

I can do all this on reddit, which I intend for Lemmy to replace, but I can't do that yet. So I still crawl reddit for the needs Lemmy can't replace, but I'd rather never have to open reddit in the first place.

Same is true for every alternative platform on Fediverse. I'm still using all the mainstream apps I intend to replace.

Meme artists slapping a black bar and a new caption on an existing work to transform its meaning:

Feels like AI would really excel in this. It's personalized argumentation that can basically auto complete for the most statistically likely (ie popular) version of an argument. CMV posts largely aren't unique, there's a lot of prior threads to draw from which got deltas.

Read the article instead of responding to the title. It was a university conducting formal research, which created AI bots that impersonated different identities. "As a black man..." style posts in ChangeMyView.

The subreddit mods issued a formal complaint to the university when they learned of it, but the university is choosing not to block its publishing on the grounds of lack of harm.

We got Looking and Tales of the City within the past decade. Not exactly a wealth of shows but they're definitely out there.

Yes morals won't keep you afloat. But FAANG, military defense contractors, and the other most terrible industries waaaay overpay on cost of living, and other industries are also looking to compensate well for expertise (minus some compensation for all the exploitation you wouldn't be contributing to).

What you're describing is the development of a paranoid conservative mindset in response to traumatic global events. This is how my conservative Fox News brainrot parents describe the world, and they are the type to own guns because they're deathly afraid of home intruders even though their city's crime index is among the best in the country.

Ironically, I think Fediverse suffers from a high amount of tech expertise and not enough project managers, lol. Not enough people cracking the whip saying "users said x feels confusing, what can we do about it?" then establishing timelines and check-ins. Maybe instead of Lemmy devs saying, "we accept nearly every pull request," they should say, "we want a project manager to help recruit volunteers on specific issues x, y, and z".

Very big window between participating in society via capitalism vs working directly for, eg. FAANG or a military defense contractor. It's leaping over every less shitty option to get to the end because that's what pays best. How funny that I considered writing a pre-reply for this exact comic in my original comment.

Here’s a cleaned-up version of your Lemmy post that keeps your tone but improves clarity, flow, and grammar:

Did they forget to delete ChatGPT's bit or did they intentionally copy the whole thing lol

I maintain my old hotmail account, but I also have 3 different gmail accounts. I also have a google account associated with my hotmail account so I can do things like keep a calendar and use Google docs with it. I imagine lots of people don't realize you can make a Google account with an existing email, so they just switch.

There was a lot of energy around strategy when I joined in January (can you guess why? Lol). The limiting factor seems to be chosen participation. Lots of people have opinions, not many people want to organize their thoughts into, eg. an effective advertising campaign, a github pull request, or basically anything other than meaningless musing.

Here were some threads in my message history I found insightful: https://lemmy.world/post/25512565 https://lemmy.world/post/25553607 https://lemmy.world/post/27824597

I'm not really skilled in anything relevant, so my strategy has been:

• On mainstream social platforms, point out any hint of enshittification and follow up with a recommendation toward a specific Fediverse alternative.
• Link directly to discussions or articles I found on Lemmy that I thought were worth sharing
• Building partnerships in my existing communities with the corresponding Lemmy communities to encourage user flow