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You’re not welcome here. Go away.

Bot or not the quality can’t get any lower

Just a story. I’m always a little sad or nostalgic when I think about this.

I used to hang out at newschoolers.com. It was a North American skiing community. Every night it was busy, and Fridays/weekends especially busy. Discord type of busy, not reddit/lemmy. You could buy/sell equipment reliably. Teton Gravity Research was the unofficial sister site for old people and newschoolers was for park rats. It was thick in culture. People left because of Facebook, ads were introduced to finance servers, new unwanted and badly implemented features were added to attract/retain, the original user base graduated high school, got jobs, and stopped visiting. It was sad. Everyone could feel it dying but there’s nothing you could do, communities are organic and they evolve and go extinct. I remember when an unpopular but industry connected member (eheath - he’s still there! wow. I’m sure he’s a good guy.) was made into a mod people were upset, and he proceeded to be a douche. Lots of things started to go bad, and eventually you just leave because it’s not fun anymore. It was years before I started going to reddit, and I always hated it. Lemmy is better. There is a bit of a forum vibe, though I still have a lot of trouble recognizing names.

https://www.newschoolers.com/forum/2/Non-Ski-Gabber

• A feature that was always there and was great was the member list on the side - you could log in and see if your friends were online. Lemmy should think about doing that. We can see the mods, which is a reddit feature, but I’d rather see online members. You get to recognize people that way.

I’ve been back on lemmy for a month after a long break and it feels permanent this time. I like that I can generally replace /r/<sub> with lemmy.world/c/<sub>, that helps.

That’s the conversation I was having with my therapist this week. I don’t know. I’ve always massively struggled with this. Thinking about it sends me into a spiral.

As of now the plan is to look for other opportunities in industry. Some training is fine but I would like to avoid loans. I don’t have anything specific yet, but public sector is likely part of it. I’m less motivated to help people as I am to make certain people miserable. Countries have started to track job quality (“job quality”), it’s data worth looking at.

Depending on how that goes I have other thoughts but nothing that is sucking me in. Maybe I’ll give up entirely and become a vagrant. I also have a viable non-expiring business idea that would de-employ a certain group of people I don’t like. I’m not ready for either of those yet.

In the meantime I have a bucket list of things that I’m working through. It helps me feel like my life has forward momentum despite what’s happening with my career (it’s also opening up new doors I didn’t see before, eg acting). Between that and therapy my job feels often feels like something I’ll deal with later.

It just makes me realize how much I hate what I do for a living.

Being able to spend money. I don’t know what will happen with farming and other things but the premise is the same as any other form of currency. Provide value, get rewarded, buy stuff.

I don’t think they will be owning anything that’s why I mentioned it feels like a serfdom.

There is still strong anti-crypto sentiment in social media so I’m not surprised to get this type of reply but it does seem charged or emotional rather than curious. Is there something about blockchain or digital currency that makes you angry or irritated?

Interesting idea but it’s still too close to the reddit platform. Looks a lot like reddit gold, except you can take your ‘gold’ elsewhere. This is a cool idea, despite the knee jerk reactions in this thread.

It’s a partial step towards a DAO, but looks rushed, half baked, and done for the wrong reasons. Some reddit profits will trickle into this currency. If they wanted to provide actual benefits instead of just making themselves rich they’d distribute profits to CP holders and allow CP holders some governance roles site-wide instead of being boxed into a community. Serfdom vibes.

Been like this for a while. I have an account with a shitty password and it’s not a big deal for me to stay logged in. But it’s scummy. I know they’re collecting that data. Can’t even fap in private anymore.

I can’t quite figure out the purpose of the votes here and I think I just prefer to comment instead of giving an up/down.

I think the up/down thing also promotes shorter comments, at least it did for me, since I know it can be hard to totally agree with someone who is making several points so I tried to keep it short and to the point. Which is dumb, because difficult topics are complex and deserve more words thrown at them not less.

Maybe the utility of the votes for me is when I don’t know what I want to say in a reply, but I want to express something. Then I vote.

Filthy beansucker

I don’t think fashion advice needs to be googleable?

I could post a picture of me wearing a shirt and ask people what their opinion is and then everyone moves. Doesn’t need to be archived on the net

They went to substack for their wiki/guides content and discord for everything else. Different. Maybe it’ll fit their social model better than a forum kind of place. I prefer my local mechanical keyboard discord over the much bigger subreddit.

Good to see that r/accidentalRenaissance is moving to kbin/lemmy. Also seems like a good fit for them here.

I’m a hobbyist and I went there to get something nice and save myself some time making it. I expected high quality reasonable cost and I found average/low quality high cost. Disappointed.

I think the old forums had it right and I hope we can see that persist here. Don’t need karma or algorithms to surface content, just mid-size/smaller communities and good moderation.

I’m mainly lemmy.world right now and have a few federated subscriptions, but I imagine at some point I’ll branch out and spend more time on the local feed of some other instance because I’ll be chasing that mid-size population.