I think the term is hikikomori, and the cause is COVID isolation.

Anyone anything else
TIFTFY

I see you’ve employed the “I am rubber you are glue” tactic. Great job 👍

Kids (and even adults) back then didn’t really know what was and wasn’t possible for real-time computer graphics. Like back in the time of Warcraft 2 and shit especially. SC2 maybe less so.

What an absolutely braindead reply.

Mastodon had a bad experience for that person.
Blue sky didn’t.
Their experience wasn’t unique.
End of story.

You’re doing mental gymnastics to misinterpret their argument. Nobody said they want centralized social media you absolute lemon. They want a user experience that doesn’t suck. Right now, blue sky provides that while mastodon doesn’t.

“Oh but bsky’s federation doesn’t solve Mastodon’s problem” they don’t have to solve Mastodon’s problem.

Elitist neckbeards like you are the reason the fediverse isn’t fun.

Toxic people can be blocked by your instance, or you can move to an instance that doesn’t tolerate that behavior

Honestly it kinda reminds me of blizzard games back in the day.

Folks remember the StarCraft adverts and cutscenes? Not remotely like the game.

I wonder why we gave them a pass. Probably because the game was still fun, I guess

See this is part of the problem.

Dude was like “look at this objectively terrible experience I actually had”
And you are like “yeah well that could happen to bsky in theory too, so they’re just as bad!”

I’ve been a mastodon user for almost 2 years, but I never use it because finding interesting people to subscribe to who are actually active is difficult.
I haven’t been using bsky because I’ve really been hoping mastodon takes off, but whenever I hear about how easy it is to onboard and find interesting content, I think about switching.

That doesn’t remove the toxic mod.

How many alts and sock puppets do you think the average person should have? This doesn’t sound healthy

We already have the same problem here. Some of our major communities have belligerent mods on problematic instances.

We’re not solving that problem, we’re just making it easier to hide from it via defederation.

If federation works the way it’s claimed to, then if we migrate even the bad parts of reddit here it should be fine.

Lemmy is turning into an elitist cesspool.

Lots of edgelords here like “I don’t want the reddit plebs here” as though they weren’t happily one of them a couple years ago.

Let them come over. Put the idea of federation to the test. Isn’t that one of the major features of federation, if there are a bunch of shitty people you can just defederate or use a different community?
If federation does what it claims then it’ll only be an improvement.

I agree with people saying not to force people here if they don’t wanna be (not that we could), but the people saying that folks still on reddit are there because they inherently prefer the reddit application UX is crazy. They prefer the content in reddit. And they have a point.

Folks here are way more insufferable than reddit. Just the other day there was a post being like “why do reddit users hate Lemmy?” And linked a reddit post about it. But the comments on the reddit post were considered, nuanced, and polite; while the comments on the Lemmy post were a bunch of neckbeards crying about how terrible reddit users are.

TLDR y’all need to look in the mirror.

Edit: typo degenerate → defederate

There are so few native desktop apps these days, it’s all on the web.
And the browser can glean a lot more about user interaction than just web traffic, like where you hover, what parts of the page you’re interacting with, etc.
That’s why I said that (combined with phone), Google probably knows more.

But it’s probably a pretty close competition

Honestly, in my experience since I fully moved to Lemmy:

Almost any subreddit is more mature than any Lemmy channel.
This isn’t just number of users (but that’s a huge problem that has been mentioned here a lot), it means that the chance you’ll run into a mod who is a tinpot despot is pretty high, and there is nothing you can do about it if you’re not willing to sit alone in a ghost town alternate community.

They also spy, because just a few billion isn’t enough

I feel like MS and Google should be switched. Web probably has more harvestable info. Plus phones.

I suspect that came directly from irl

Almost everyone in the linked Reddit post seems to be supportive of Lemmy, or even Lemmy users. Even the people who tried it and stopped seem generally warm to the idea and just think it needs polish.

I’d say that this comment section is way more vitriolic than that one lol

I’ve fantasized about this.

I had some friends who actually DID build a secret room behind a bookshelf, where they had their home theatre or something like that I forget (they were more like close coworkers of my wife than my own friends, but they were super nice).

For space elevators, to the best of my knowledge, there is no known material that can withstand the forces involved. Not even CFNTs.

For wormholes, we’re getting so deep into speculation that the conversation doesn’t even really matter.