Didn't do much for me. I tried a few different things and they were mostly a waste of time. I did recently pick up the Sylvania restoration kits and that shit was like night and day difference.
The only trick is that their "3 step" process is bullshit. It's a lot of sanding and cleaning and sanding and cleaning and before you know it you'll be on step 12 of 3 and only halfway through. But it works and the difference at night is definitely noticable.
Definitely. I posted this yesterday in a similar thread about clickbait content:
This is one of the things that I'm struggling with right now as well. My reddit experience was heavily curated in favor of smaller subreddits, to the almost complete exclusion of top subreddits. The thing is, since Lemmy is so new, it hasn't had the opportunity to build up a diverse array of specialized communities the same way. So basically right now all we have are mainly versions of the "big" Reddit communities, along with ones that decided to emigrate here from Reddit.
But it turns out, content from "big" communities is often the same low-effort, lowest-common denominator stuff regardless which platform is hosting it. Memes, clickbait, and ragebait permeate the top results, because well shucks, that's what people want to see and engage with, apparently.
I'm hopeful that if/when Lemmy continues to grow, that it'll become home to more active specialized communities. In the meanwhile, I've been trying to improve the experience as much as possible by A) trying to subscribe to more communities and B) slamming that block community button like I'm playing Hungry Hungry Hippos.
I think it boils down to the fact that a smaller userbase is going to naturally gravitate towards lowest common denominator content because there isn't enough critical mass to form niche communities yet. It's low-hanging fruit to post an angry meme about Reddit, since people being angry about Reddit is why Lemmy/kbin suddenly have so many people. But of those, how many want to talk about inflatable kayaks or vintage calculators?
As far as finding new communities, maybe this page will be helpful.
I mean I do analytics on site engagement metrics professionally, like as my job that pays me money, and based on that and past instances of r/place, I can make an educated guess that:
They were desperate to improve July usage numbers because projections were looking shitty after the events of the past month.
r/place has traditionally been a good way to juice engagement numbers
They pulled a lever they knew would generate the results they needed
Is it temporary? Sure. But this buys them some time and August's numbers are August's problem.
Here's are the stats from a previous instance of r/place:
Social platform Reddit re-introduced its collaborative social experiment r/Place on April 1, leading to the highest daily active users (DAUs) its mobile app has ever seen
So yeah, they'll get the juice they need, probably, but the fact that they were compelled to even need to pull that lever says a lot, imo.
As a starter, you could ask him:
...but like other folks have talked about, it's difficult to use logic to get someone out of a position that they did not logic themselves into. You're arguing with feelings, and so long as he feels oppressed, that's going to be the truth of his world.
I'd have some hesitation to tag those in due to the number of times I've had internal hose splitters/timers get broken or worn out, and develop a leak. It's no big deal if I'm replacing a $10 splitter, but it would sure sting when that $76 controller develops a leak.
I don't think there's going to be a good way to know. Semrush is showing a relatively steady decline since January 2023, but I don't trust third-party tools for that. And I doubt that Reddit would make its first-party analytic data public if it looks bad, so in that case the default move is to either cherrypick or create a metric that appears favorable, a la Elon Musk's brand new Twitter metric of median picoseconds of verified user screen time per albatross fart or whatever.
From a qualitative standpoint, both the content and general vibe seem markedly worse than a month or two ago. It's made it easy to stop using it as my default online platform.
But in any case, I don't think it's worth it to get too invested in either its success or failure.
there’s a special place in heaven for kanban lovers that’s what i always say
they were banned for not allowing LGBTQ+ content on their community.
This is false. They were banned for maintaining a policy which denies that LGBTQ+ people have a right to exist as they are.
Also, you were totally allowed to make anti-LGBTQ+ content. You were only prohibited from making anything pro- because let me tell you, if you've ever tried to get glitter out of an echo chamber, it is a total hassle.
Rule #8: This community does not affirm practiced LGBTQ+ lifestyles, with the exception of the ace/aroace (asexual/aromatic-asexual) lifestyle in certain contexts. However, abuse towards members of the LGBTQ+ community will not be tolerated. Pro-LGBTQ+ content is not allowed; however, sincere questions and discourse about LGTBQ+issues are permitted.
This is one of the things that I'm struggling with right now as well. My reddit experience was heavily curated in favor of smaller subreddits, to the almost complete exclusion of top subreddits. The thing is, since Lemmy is so new, it hasn't had the opportunity to build up a diverse array of specialized communities the same way. So basically right now all we have are mainly versions of the "big" Reddit communities, along with ones that decided to emigrate here from Reddit.
But it turns out, content from "big" communities is often the same low-effort, lowest-common denominator stuff regardless which platform is hosting it. Memes, clickbait, and ragebait permeate the top results, because well shucks, that's what people want to see and engage with, apparently.
I'm hopeful that if/when Lemmy continues to grow, that it'll become home to more active specialized communities. In the meanwhile, I've been trying to improve the experience as much as possible by A) trying to subscribe to more communities and B) slamming that block community button like I'm playing Hungry Hungry Hippos.
This shit just feels like more work.
What if they miss their standup? Are the admins going to assign moderators tasks in Jira next? What if they don't agree on the story points, should the moderators still consider themselves committed to the work this sprint?
Also, how much will the feedback from these conversations weigh in on the moderators' quarterly performance reviews?
HAHAHAHAHA that's amazing.
If you haven't seen it, their appearance on The Onion's Under Cover series (with Oderus RIP) was amazing.
EDIT: And also Get Into My Car by Billy Ocean
Doubtlessly true, but by the same token I suspect they're running better than ever without Elon around to "help". Their employees certainly seem to think so.