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  • do you think Lemmy is dead?

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  • Spez melting down and accidentally giving us great PR for awhile was maybe... not good enough in itself, eh?

    The problem is that for the average user, the Fediverse just doesn't offer a compelling product. Think about the average, enthusiastic poster on Reddit. While yes, they might be a power user who understands the site and is passionate about it, most (esspecially in smaller communities) users are passionate about what they're posting about, and just happen to access the community through Reddit. They don't know nor care about the underlying tech and politics, they just want to talk to others about how to grow tomatoes or what game patch 1.16 means for the meta. These users didn't care about the Reddit drama. They just kept going as normally as they could, and those who did try were largely met with dead communities anyway, so simply went back to what they were doing before.

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  • Normally, I'd say post more, but from a glace at your profile, you're already posting more than I would expect any individual to (Thank you.)

    Beyond this, we need the Fediverse to expand to the point were it can achive a critical mass and the networking effect and its own momentum will keep it running. In my own personal opinion, there is two main avenues we need to tackle:

    1. Gaining/Keeping new users: As it stands, Lemmy has low visibility, and when new users do try to learn more, it's extremely inaccessible. Keep in mind that even Reddit was seen as kinda niche and inaccessible, nonetheless as a defederated platform filled with elitist political and tech nerds. To improve these, one avenue is to engage in more marketing and onboarding. Things like colourful, "How to use Lemmy" image decks, screenshots reposted on other platforms, or just straight propaganda posters. We also need to improve the experience in the Fediverse, although this is more about being friendly and supportive, and calling out elitism and assholery. Larger movements like what is needed here happen through a sense of community.
    2. Lack of compelling content: As it stands, there is far too little content on the fediverse, nonetheless anything standout. We need both more broad appeal content and more high-quality content if we want to draw users from other platforms. Options for this range in complexity from simply asking users to post/comment more (even a simple, complementary comment helps encourage others to post more), to writing bots to make relevant posts to the appropriate communities like Reddit did in the early days, to making more original content for Lemmmy (or at least released to Lemmy early), or even sponsoring/commissioning more work to be posted here.

    IMO, we need a combination of both of these avenues if we want to achive the critical mass needed to make the Fediverse successful.

  • do you think Lemmy is dead?

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  • Those stats are total posts, not posts per day. Also worth noting that the home screen stats are misleading, as they include a bot-run Reddit mirror that is larger than the rest of Lemmy and PieFed combined, not to mention a lot of other smaller (but still massive) bots and bot-run instances that most are defederated from.

    If you want to be more accurate, you have to filter through individual instances excluding outliers, and collect the data from each one to add up.

    Overall, the stats seem to suggest that its lost momentum and grown stagnant, although stagnant does not mean dead either.

  • how come Lemmy shows more upvoted posts further down the thread instead of at the top?

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  • I believe "Hot" sorting filters by a mix of recency, score and possibly also activity. If you want to sort by score alone, you can use the dropdown to change the sorting to use "top" instead. There may also be an option in your settings to make this the default if you want to.

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    Why would a younger man want to be with an older woman?

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  • A lot of the same reasons younger women often like older men. Maturity and stability is attractive, people often have sexual preferences for those who are older, those who are older often have money they can throw around (IE sugar daddies), and people often find the power imbalance attractive.

  • A good video about a deep dive into protein in the new "protein fad"

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  • I've been trying to change my diet to eat less sugar, and trying to substitute it with more nutritious and particularly protien rich foods, and this issue has been driving me insane. Basically anything pre-made in any form is filled with sugar, and that goes double for things advertised as nutritious or protein-rich.

  • Major VAC [Valve's non-kernel anticheat] Live updates leaving cheaters crying

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  • From my understanding, it also locks your inventory, which in a game like CS, is a very big deal.

  • Intel getting closer to launching its more powerful Arc B770 'Battlemage' GPU

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  • Part of the problem is that historically, AMD was just flat out bad. Its no so much as thinking of Nvidia as a luxury brand as not even realizing AMD or Intel are valid options. Even if things get better, it will take time for public sentiment to shift, given that people aren't replacing their computers often.

    For example, I got a Vega 56 for cheap near the end of the generation. I had constant issues with it's drivers, and my whole friend group was obviously exposed to them when we played games together. Seeing that, reasonably, they decided they wanted to stay away. Given that my friend group is relatively technical, they're opening up to AMD again as people say the issues have improved, but if I had a less cheap and less technical friend group, that experience would have completely burnt that bridge.

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    Where can I find investors?

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  • Have you tried having money? Thats normally how people get investors.

  • Is the number of Lemmy users increasing?

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  • The graphs there for posts and comments are for count of posts on lemmy directly, total, not per month. The posts/month seems stagnant, although its hard to tell as the data shown there is burried by a couple of bot instances that completely hide the overall trend.

  • Is the number of Lemmy users increasing?

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  • The posts and comments listed there are locally hosted total values (not per month)

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  • I want to say we were supposed to learn them in second grade in Canada, but I personally never did. My memory isn't good enough, so to this day, I just work it out in my head. For small numbers like 1-12, its easy enough to break it down to smaller parts and solve quickly anyway.

  • What features from some site do you wish were used in more sites?

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  • For any website that has some sort of search or filtering, a function to exclude items. A couple examples of this that have annoyed me enough to still remember them:

    • Trying to set a filter for every GPU with more than 12GB of RAM, excluding the 3060. I had to instead select like two dozen chipsets manually.
    • This is now fixed, but you didn't used to be able to filter excluding game tags on Steam. This made more general tags useless, as people over-apply them. For example, CS2 Marvel Rivals, Black Desert, and DbD are all tagged as strategy games, so without the option to filter them out, it was way harder to browse.
    • On Lemmy, there doesn't seem to be any search operators, nonetheless '-'. Given how useless the search already is, and the fact that nothing gets indexed on the major search engines, finding anything on Lemmy is impossible.
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  • Embarrassed? No.

    Annoyed/mad? Maybe a bit?

    It does feel like its a boundary violation, and inconsiderate to both you and the woman to suprise, you and force a specifc date and time on you like that. At the same time, you didn't do anything wrong, and if the opportunity has presented itself, and you are interested in dating, its still worth it to go.

  • Why do neurotypicals like AI slop?

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  • Its not normally sought out, in fact, its nearly the opposite. If you don't filter what you search for and you just mindlessly scroll on most social media, its low effort slop (AI and not) that you end up with.

    Its in the same vien as most mobile games - Most people download the first thing that catches their eye on the app store (part of why top grossing is so prominently featured) and if it holds their attention at all, they keep playing. They're not looking for good games, they're looking for something to reduce boredom on their bus ride.

  • Why do neurotypicals like AI slop?

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  • They're just bored.

  • Why do neurotypicals like AI slop?

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  • Aside from what others are saying, I think you're also making a mistake in interpreting people's interest in generative AI. Most people making/using AI art aren't looking for "good art", they're looking for a "good enough asset" to fufill a niche they don't or can't value. For example, a small buisness owner might use AI to create their logo. It won't be good, but its only competing with what they can draw as a non-artist. It only needs to be passable, not good. Similarly, big buisnesses like it because it can create images to add visual flair, without the cost and personality of stock photos. In the same vein from the viewer perspective, they often aren't looking for something high-quality or thought provoking (esspecially on a platform like Tik-Tok). Generally, people scrolling on Tik-Tok aren't looking for something good, they're looking for something mindless to distract them, thus the emphasis on mindless scrolling over guided or curated content.

  • Whatever happened to the blockchain/smart contract 'revolution' we were told about?

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  • Also, exchanges don't ask you to pay taxes or What stops the company to maintain a team of people whose work is to register new wallets and accounts on exchanges all day every day? How exchange going to figure out that a certain person's account is linked to the company? Even if they will hire detectives, what will they do if there is a whole team with rotating people? Also, exchanges don't ask you to pay taxes or declare where you got money from, that happens after you take money from them to your fiat bank accounts.

    So basically, set up a whole new, extra inaccessible payment system (that definately won't be intercepted by middle men) to be able to make transactions. And then how do you convert back to the dollar? You're in the same position.

    There are countless exchanges, more than 2, and new ones can open every day (a big difference compared to payment processors, where just 2 basically monopolized the market).

    There are countless payment processors and digital wallets, and new ones open regularly. You just don't hear about them (esspecially in North America) because unregulated capitalism has allowed Visa, Mastercard and PayPal to monopolize the market. What stops that from happening again?

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  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    What is a tip, fact, or piece of information that you want to share?

  • Liminal Space @lemmy.ml
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  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    What is a niche interest or hobby you'd personally like to see represented more on Lemmy

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    How have you personally found the Lemmy community compared to its competition and other social media?

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    Are there any notable content creators that focus on content other than niche tech and US political on Mastodon?

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