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  • #The Siren's Song

    In the shadowy depths of the digital abyss, there dwelled a mysterious mermaid known as Marina, who yearned for a connection that transcended the confines of her underwater realm. Longing for a soulmate to share her aquatic dreams, she embarked on a perilous journey through the treacherous waters of the internet.

    Marina's quest began innocently enough, with the soft glow of her computer screen casting eerie ripples across her watery lair. With a few clicks of her phosphorescent scales, she delved into the world of mermaid fanfiction, crafting tales of love and longing, weaving words like intricate seaweed patterns. Her stories flowed like enchanting melodies, captivating the hearts of those who dared to venture into her digital domain.

    As her stories gained notoriety in the virtual realm, Marina's obsession grew. She watched her followers multiply like bioluminescent plankton on a moonlit night. Every like, every comment, every share sent shivers of euphoria through her aquatic form, pulling her deeper into the abyss. Hours stretched into days, days blurred into nights, and Marina's underwater sanctuary fell into disrepair. Neglected coral gardens withered, and once-vibrant schools of fish dwindled in number. The allure of the digital world had ensnared her like an inescapable net, drawing her deeper into its abyss.

    With each passing day, Marina's longing for a soulmate intensified. She yearned to find a kindred spirit, someone who could hear the echo of her siren's song across the digital waves. But her search became a relentless scroll through a sea of profiles, each faceless avatar a mere mirage, a tantalizing illusion that promised connection but delivered only fleeting moments of satisfaction.

    She had become a digital spectre, haunting the depths of the internet, her original purpose forgotten. The mermaid who had once longed for a soulmate had become a prisoner of her own creation, ensnared by the siren's lure of social media. Her shimmering tail had turned pallid, her voice growing hoarse from countless hours of typing, scrolling, and refreshing. Her once-bright eyes now reflected the ghostly glow of her computer screen as she desperately sought validation in the form of likes and follows.

    In the eerie silence of her now-desolate underwater world, Marina finally realized the depths of her folly. The digital realm had ensnared her, just as she had ensnared countless others with her mesmerizing stories. In her obsession, she had lost not only herself but also the beauty of her aquatic home.

    With trembling hands, she closed her laptop, a feeble attempt to break free from the shackles of her addiction. The silence of her underwater world enveloped her, a stark reminder of what she had lost, but she allowed the sounds of the ocean to wash over her. With each gentle wave of the underwater current, she began to rediscover the essence of her mermaid soul. In the silence and solitude of her underwater sanctuary, Marina finally heard the siren's song within herself—the song of self-discovery, of rekindled creativity, and of the depths of her own soul. She realized that her true soulmate was not to be found in the digital world but within the shimmering depths of her own heart.

    With newfound clarity, Marina vowed to balance her digital presence with the enchanting world that lay beyond her computer screen. She would once again nurture her underwater realm, and perhaps, in time, she would find a true soulmate who shared her love for the mysteries of the deep.

    And so, the mermaid named Marina embarked on a new journey, no longer ensnared by the siren's lure of social media, but guided by her own heart's song and the boundless depths of her underwater realm all around her.

  • Soon, summoning rituals began, echoing her cursed story in games like League of Legends.

    Favorite line. Really fun ghost story. Could use a little less internet phrases and word salad for my taste (I also think I don't get many of the references lol).

  • Fixing code from some lost, old gods? This one will truly haunt me ...

  • …but rather a malevolent whisper from the abyss. It beckoned me toward an abyssal abyss…

    Could ponder about it alone for hours

  • I think its about writing a bad, low-effort post and then seeing it being taken over by shit posters.

  • This is great :D

  • "Whispers from the Digital Crypt"

    Within the oppressive confines of my ancestral home, I found myself seated before my father's ancient laptop, its cold metallic frame echoing with the weight of generations past. As I absentmindedly scrolled through the obscure recesses of the digital world, I stumbled upon a result that whispered of dark intentions, a sinister recommendation seeping forth from the depths of my search engine. And to my mounting dread, it clung to me like a phantom's curse, no matter how desperately I tried to banish it.

    The room itself bore the heavy burden of history, its walls adorned with portraits of forebears long forgotten, their eyes seeming to follow me with silent reproach. The flickering candlelight cast grotesque shadows upon their pallid faces, as if they, too, were privy to the malevolence that had manifested on the laptop's screen.

    My fingers, trembling with trepidation, traced the haunted keys as I sought to unravel the enigma before me. Yet, with each futile attempt to erase this digital malevolence, it grew stronger, morphing into a specter that defied my every command. It was as though an ancient curse had been invoked, binding me to a sinister fate beyond my control.

    The recommendation had not been my own desire, but rather a malevolent whisper from the abyss. It beckoned me toward an abyssal abyss of darkness, one I had no intention of entering. Yet, the cursed tendrils of code clung to my every click and keystroke, refusing to relent, ensnaring me within their inescapable web.

    As the night deepened, the laptop's glow took on an eerie, otherworldly hue, casting ghastly reflections upon the time-worn portraits that adorned the chamber's walls. The room seemed to exhale an air of malevolence, and I was but a helpless captive in this gothic labyrinth of digital torment.

    In the suffocating silence of my ancestral home, I was left with an unsettling certainty—an inescapable truth that gripped my very soul: I had unwittingly opened a digital Pandora's box, and its relentless, gothic malevolence would haunt me, in perpetuity, within these hallowed and cursed walls.

  • Doesn't matter which (but preferably the latter). Its more of a thought-experiment ...

  • Default-Local-Feed was also noted as bad user-experience in this article: https://www.androidauthority.com/reddit-alternatives-lemmy-3335429/

    Sure, there are categorization tools like Lemmy map that let you look up instances, but the Matrix-like grid will certainly not make things any easier for the average user. Even after logging into Lemmyworld, it took me a while to figure out that the local tab restricts all conversations to discussions on the Lemmyworld server. Switching the tab to all and catching up on discussions happening in the broader multiverse of Reddit alternatives is also possible. Still, there’s no visual identifier that guides you toward it.

  • Ok, I take that.

    So the thing is: I don't want to push users towards the Local-feed. That's just what currently happening if you go to the front page. Local is selected as default. You can switch to All but often enough, I at least don't do it.

    Why is that? Because instances have less control of the All-feed, its often enough full of crap and the post of small instances will almost never appear in the All-feed. So they select Local as default and I, as a user, have to always switch between Local and All, which is annoying. I want to see whats going on on my instance but I also want to discover stuff from all over the threadiverse.

    My solution is to combine the two into one feed, which simply picks posts from the respective feeds based on probabilities.

  • Why?

  • Well its not proven or anything that's true. But until now no one convinced me otherwise.

  • I like that idea

  • Interesting, I hadn't thought about the ethical and data protection issues for this problem before.

    Could linking of communities solve it? You close a community, open it on another instance and link the two?

  • That's true. I'm not sure it would be a good feature, because you would inevitable only see a certain view of the instance. For example your instances blocks certain communities of that instance (don't know if thats possible but lets assume it is), then you wouldn't see these communities.

    I'm fine with the way it is. Also you can post to that topic, you just need to search for it in your instances UI.

  • The ”global town-square”

    I don't want that. I stand with the idea of federation. You would have that with one big instance on which everything happens but I'm not for that.

    But if instances only push their users toward their own content, user engagment will center around instances. There are many problems to that, which negatively impact discussion quality: small instances don't work because no one sees their stuff, therefore they eventually shut down. Also, filter bubbles develop, users don't see content from other instances, which they might be interested in and comment on. So yes, I think a better distribution over the federated instances of an instance is healthy for the threadiverse.

  • Highly disagree, if an instance is controlling the experience of a user, then that’s a problem.

    But that's so in any case. I'm speaking about which feed the user is pushed towards, which is currently the local feed.

  • But is that technically possible? I imagine it would be pretty tough migrating all that data ...

  • Fediverse @lemmy.ml

    Risk Matrix for Algorithm Decision Systems by Kraft and Zweig - To which category belong post-curation-algorithms in the Fediverse?

  • Fediverse @lemmy.ml

    LEGEND OF LARRY: Into the Fediverse (fedifiction)

  • Fediverse @lemmy.ml

    The four stages of fediverse-services - at which stage is Lemmy now?

  • Fediverse @lemmy.ml

    Is there any Micro-Blogging-Service on the Fediverse with an alternative to chronological feed?

  • Fediverse @lemmy.ml

    The Living Web: Will there eventually be a protocol on top of (or as a part of) ActivityPub to run distributed LLMs on instances, with the LLMs feeding on the data generated by the Fediverse?

  • Fediverse @lemmy.ml

    Why is the default setting for the startpage's feed "Local" and not "All"

  • Fediverse @lemmy.ml

    What if You Knew What You Were Missing on Social Media? (By Julia Angwin)

    www.nytimes.com /2023/08/17/opinion/social-media-algorithm-choice.html
  • Fediverse @lemmy.ml

    What will be the top active post on lemmyworld/c/fediverse on 1/9/2033 at 11am GMT (while we are at it we can also already try to answer it)

  • Fediverse @kbin.social

    Would you agree to algorithm-generated timelines if there were sufficient tools to check whether the timeline on an instance work as promised?

  • Fediverse @lemmy.ml

    Would you agree to algorithm-generated timelines if there were sufficient tools to check whether the timeline on an instance work as promised?

  • Fediverse @lemmy.ml

    Is Mastodon’s strictly chronological news feed based on a wrong assumption?

  • Fediverse @lemmy.ml

    Fedi-fanfiction: How would a society look like in which the fediverse is established as THE social media platform?

  • Fediverse @lemmy.ml

    What's the word for realizing to have been sucked into the Fediverse and actually forgotten that you are using the Fediverse? Fedi-Immersion-Shock?

  • Fediverse @lemmy.ml

    Do you think opensource + Fediverse will develop into some kind of political force/movement in the next years?

  • Fediverse @lemmy.ml

    Rio – The Twitter-Platform where Birds can leave their Nests

  • Fediverse @lemmy.ml

    New potential Fediverse-Analogy: Bird Party