By then, I don’t think that the use of earth’s orbital period around the sun would make sense as a unit of measurement. It is important to track the seasons if you’re living in an agricultural society. But the orbital period of the earth is not consistent across time, nor the time it takes for the earth to rotate. It doesn’t make a good unit of measurement. And don’t get me started on leap years, leap seconds, negative leap seconds, timezones and daylight saving times…

I’d prefer to base the new unit of time based on “Plank time”. About 10^44 of these are about one second. Now if we switch to the duodecimal system we can define 12^41 × Plank time to be our standard unit. It’s about a third of an earth second. 144 of these (12^43) equal roughly 3/4 of a minute. 144 of these (12^45) is about 1.8 hours. 12 of these (12^46) could be the equivalent of a day, 12 of that could be an equivalent of a week, and you can find an equivalent for a year. The duodecimal is unnecessary, but it makes division a bit neater. Now peak a date well before the beginning of human history to avoid the need for negative years (BC / AD) and that’s it.

That way you get a single number that you can manipulate arithmetically. Not like yyyy/mm/dd format where each part is a different length.

Facebook kind of died and used the momentum it had to reinvent itself. Back in the day I used to see updates from my friends, and I used to interact with them. I stopped using Facebook at some point a few years ago and recently got back to it. I use Marketplace, and in my country people with the same hobby as me seem to interact over Facebook more than anything else. Younger people rarely upload except for a few very active outliers. Most of the content is these clickbaity short videos of 5-minute crafts or live-feeding frogs to slightly larger frogs because Facebook thinks I’m into it for some reason. They just made an addictive never-ending stream of content.

Every time you do anything more and more often it feels less special. That’s how things work.

Knowing that guy, he’ll use his elevated admin permissions to remove it like he edited other people’s comments.

Reddit still has better content. It’s not as good as it used to be before the shenanigans broke loose, but while Lemmy is getting better every day, it still has a long way to go.

Schwarzenegger is basically two words for black fused together.

How hard it is to replace the backend while keeping the experience the same?

I used to lurk there out of habit of using my 3rd party app of choice. Now that it had shut down, I don’t think I’ll come back.

Almost as if it was a deliberate move. If I was given control of Reddit with the goal of running it to the ground as fast as I could, I’m not sure I could have done a better job than the current team running the site with the goal of making it profitable.

I don’t think that Lemmy will ever be as popular as Reddit used to be. The recent events deflated the platform, and Lemmy will grow in popularity on their expanse. At this point Reddit is in decline while Lemmy is not mature enough as a community. Times are changing, and users who left Reddit either in protest of the recent changes, due to a decline in content quality or because of both of these things will find a different platform. It might be the end of the glory days of link aggregators in the style of Reddit, of AMAs, announcements and celebrities lurking and commenting. It was so nice to stumble across comments by Rick Astley or Peter Mayhew (The original Chewbacca), or your favorite YouTuber. I don’t expect Lemmy to be able to replicate that.