I think we’re just as bored. We may in fact be worse off for having increased our “interest threshold” such that we must seek more and more stimuli in order to stave off boredom.
Doomscrolling is the new boredom.
All that is solid melts into air
Please share your ad blocking strategy when you do!
I never used bare DOS, my first experience with a PC was on windows 3.1
I think about this a lot. I’m so grateful I had the experience of messing with the windows registry and other phenomena of the 90s.
I think it might be a bit of an xy problem. I myself have hoped for the runaway success of the fediverse. But I realized it’s not actually some absolute number of users I want. What I want is for the fediverse to have that same “there’s a community for anything” that reddit had.
I’m starting to hope the fediverse doesn’t get too big now, honestly. There’s a certain number of eyeballs that is going to attract people interested in exploiting those eyeballs, and I don’t know if the fediverse is robust enough to fight them off as the pot of gold they see begins to overflow. It’s hard balance to find. And maybe the decentralized aspect of the fediverse does mean that it can’t be fully assimilated by capital, I don’t know.
Were living in interesting times.
I spent most of my time on Reddit in the learn programming subs, so I’m glad at least that demographic has moved here. I’m almost 34, don’t work in tech but want to, don’t use Linux but want to (and if the rumors of windows adding ads to the OS are true I will switch to Linux full time except for gaming). I wasn’t really that invested in the reddit API changes but I liked reddit when it was more under ground and wild west. I used to spend a lot of time on rcsources (those days are behind me regardless, though). So I wanted to see if there was still room on the internet for the outlaw tech cowboy shtick, and Lemmy stepped up to the plate.
Rotten.com fucked me up back in the day
I think it’s absurd to give Meta the shadow of a benefit of the doubt. in the past, they have explicitly stated their intention to make facebook the internet. If zuck had his way, there would be exactly one website, a monolith collecting your data to more efficiently serve you ads. There is no world in which their participation in the fediverse is not self serving and a net loss for the rest of us.
That enough beans to simulate quantum effects
There’s plenty of flac on soulseek, I actually filter them out of my search results
Lemmy.ml was requesting people register on other instances, and lemmy.one stepped up to fill the void.
But when people ask me what instance to sign up for, I tell them lemmy.world. it doesn’t really matter, but being based in a bigger instance reduces the friction of finding communities.
Omg you’re amazing! I’ve been searching for an Android version of soulseek for ages, and somehow never got recommended Seeker. The only app I found was dead by the time I downloaded it.
I still use soulseek, been using it for nearly 20 years at this point
Peace