ScrumblesPAbernathy

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[–] ScrumblesPAbernathy@readit.buzz 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I agree completely. We really need to make onboarding to the fediverse as painless as possible. If there's a barrier to entry the general audience will gravitate towards tech savvy folks. That's cool and all but what made Twitter and Reddit so good was the diversity of voices.

There were tech folks but also senior citizens, people who don't usually use social networks and those with marginalized voices. Both platforms started with mostly tech folks, Twitter didn't really blow up until the color revolutions, reddit really came into its own after the digg exodus.

The fediverse is making big gains because of both platforms thoroughly shitting the bed but we're not the only game in town. Threads has an extremely low barrier to entry but it's an entry into a Max Headroom style blipvert hellscape. Making our barrier to entry as low as possible could really help us "rescue" those users.

[–] ScrumblesPAbernathy@readit.buzz 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

I feel like those were somewhat easy to find (but not explicitly stated).

  • Lemmy.world for Lemmy
  • Kbin.social for Kbin
  • Mastodon.social for Mastodon

Once people are in there then we start talking up moving to and instance that fits their style. Kind of like picking a fighter character then picking a specialization at level 2. That's still a hard sell on Lemmy and Kbin where we don't have the account export/import/redirect tools that Mastodon has. I could see them coming pretty soon though.

There's always some people walking around dead malls, even if the mall died years ago. Reddit will be around for at least 5-10 more years but it's overall influence will start to decline. It will be slowly at first but I'd bet three years from now reddit will just be seen as a forum site for scammers, bots, incels and alt-right lunatics (more than it is now).

[–] ScrumblesPAbernathy@readit.buzz 12 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Bluesky and Threads are perfect examples of "fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me." I've got no sympathy for folks who will be blindsided when those platforms start squeezing them almost immediately.

Tech bros big mad when they can't continue to exploit a workforce and have to play by the rules. "How can we disrupt if we can't cheat and steal from our workers and customers?"

Those shit acre silicon carpetbaggers can get infini-fucked.

[–] ScrumblesPAbernathy@readit.buzz 25 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The Good Place is overall pretty positive. Same with Parks and Recreation as well as Abbot Elementary.

Their small squad tactics are unbelievable! Kids these days will just lay down suppression fire and flank you, no respect!

I bet I could convince you that there are no winners in global thermonuclear war with just 1000 games of tic tac toe.

[–] ScrumblesPAbernathy@readit.buzz 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm not a democrat, I'm a leftist.

No, leftists are like vegans. Call a vegan a vegetarian, "I'm not a vegetarian, I'm a vegan!"

Call a leftist a democrat, "I'm not a democrat, I'm a leftist!"

(btw, I'm a leftist. Not a vegan though)

[–] ScrumblesPAbernathy@readit.buzz 23 points 2 years ago (28 children)

If someone refuses to admit their political affiliation in the US you can basically guarantee they're right wing.

[–] ScrumblesPAbernathy@readit.buzz 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You would rob yourself of the glory of living as interstellar bread? Being baked to a golden brown by cosmic radiation while aimlessly shooting across the void infinite?

Join me, our bodies no longer bounded by our form. We expand, yeast eating sugar, producing alcohol and carbon dioxide. We intermingle, no longer you, no longer me. Just intimately bread, endlessly bread.

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