You’re missing the point.

Pornography addiction is a real thing.

I don’t think citronella actually does anything.

I have thought that way before.

But nowadays I have a different perspective. I’ve got everything I need to be happy, and that’s enough for me.

You’re not going to be obsessing over all your career achievements on your deathbed, you’re just going to wish you had spent more time with loved ones.

I’m all for improving the user experience here on Lemmy.

But what I find not so appealing, is targeting mass adoption in a way that dumbs down the community we’re building here.

As long as we just make Lemmy a great place to be, the right kind of people will keep joining.

Meta knows exactly what to do to bring a billion new users to a new social media site, and all you have to do is look at Threads to see the kind of community they are cultivating.

Lemmy does not, and never will, have the moderation power to contend with that many bad actors. I’m perfectly fine with Lemmy having a tiny learning curve to keep out the dregs.

Not OP, but the ability to transfer my subscriptions to another instance without headache would be enough.

That’s the only major pain point in switching instances.

Binary voting isn’t a perfect system, but so far it’s proven to work well enough.

If a better mechanism proves itself in the future I imagine Lemmy will adapt to it over time.

Motherland if I’m not mistaken.

The only thing you can’t do with an open API is exploit every dollar of value that passes through your service.

The main difference between a Silicon Valley API and a FOSS API, is the SV API is trying to get tons of people rich as fuck by exploiting you. The FOSS API can live long and prosper by simply asking for donations every once in a while, or engaging in very light-handed monetization.

There are like a million little nuances to this whole issue, and the lack of nuance is what Silicon Valley relies on to convince people that they must pillage their users, but that’s the gist.

I think the best solution to this whole monetization issue is to just make sharing bandwidth as easy as possible on the fediverse.

If hosting can be done by everyone using an instance, no one entity has to bear overwhelming costs, so there’s no excuse to demand money.

Advertisers keep pushing for a more and more obtrusive browsing experience, while shoving consumerist junk in my face to try and drain my wallet.

And I’m just supposed to be okay with that?

Nope, I block all the ads I can.

As far as I can tell, GDPR is a defense against corporations who claim to own your data, and hold that data hostage. But it’s not a infallible tool to scrub data from the internet.

Think about a tweet that’s been screenshotted throughout the Internet. Twitter would have to delete the original post and and data they control, but I imagine they have no liability for the outsiders taking screenshots.

How GDPR applies to Lemmy may have to be explored in court.

But I’m just a layperson without specific knowledge of the law, so that legal framework may already exist.

Isn’t karma just like an anti-spam mechanism that barely works?

And you get karma just by posting whatever the community wants to hear. So it’s not like it shows how enlightened you are or anything.

Anyway, one thing that bothered me about Reddit’s karma system, is that people would delete their comments if they got a few downvotes, even if they had something important to say.

Here on Lemmy, you can quickly see both upvotes and downvotes. So if someone says something controversial due to politics or whatever, they’re less likely to delete their comment because they can see “ahh, I’m not just being mercilessly attacked, 50 people upvoted me.”

That can be abused I guess, but I like that it promotes discussion that isn’t just echo-chamber nonsense. We’ll just have to see how it works in practice.

Every billionaire uses charities.

They’re a way to exert control over the money that would normally go to taxes, and be up to the government to spend.

It’s not inherently bad, but charity is not quite the saving grace of billionaires that many make it out to be.

Old Reddit is 100% slated for execution.

The admins just haven’t given a date.

It’s also available as a Firefox extension.

It’s what I use on desktop.