Saw a toddler with a phone in hand today, maybe a year. Couldn’t walk yet, but had no trouble scrolling.

Definitely needed.

I’d like to know, too. Especially considering most servers I’m on are unlikely to switch.

Kbin kept logging me out. At some point, it got so annoying, I deleted my bookmark.

“human animals”… reminiscent of “Untermenschen”.

We don’t have the medical treatment yet. But we’re getting close.

First result, searching from Japan. Maybe it’s very specific to Korea.

YouTube is weird. I’m watching solarpunk videos and it recommends me Jordan Peterson. Or I watch Joscha Bach and it floods me with AI-doomerism.

Gonna check out Connect, thank you :)

I don’t think Lemmy will reach or overtake Reddit. That’s a good thing in my opinion, because massive platforms come with massive moderation problems that aren’t so easy to tackle for decentralised networks. We’ve seen that when someone posted kiddie porn and several servers went down to scrub the filth from their systems.

If anything, Lemmy already has a pretty high amount of troll communities, thankfully mostly contained within their own servers, which enables separation through defederation (speaking of defederation, I’d love to have an option to block servers on the user level).

I’d think it’s more that there’s now more media fighting your attention. When I was a kid (GenX here), we had a handful of TV channels and books. Books was what I went with.

Nowadays, I get home from work and watch something on YouTube before bed. I still read, but my standards have risen, and a trashy space opera won’t do it anymore for me. It has to be a great one now, and there are fewer of them. So, naturally, YouTube gets a bigger share of my time. Or games, when I have time to play on the weekends. My comfort game used to be Civilization, and currently I’m hooked on Baldurs Gate.

Not going to waste my time with you. You’ll tell me to fuck myself the moment you’re out of arguments.

Funny how that works, isn’t it? The same guy who talks about a good faith discussion telling you to fuck yourself. Welcome to 2023.

Tribalism. “You don’t like what I like, therefore you’re my enemy.”

I’ve been using Liftoff, which has none of that nonsense. Ads on Lemmy, no thanks. Why pay for it if free alternatives exist.

Not everyone is an English native.

That’s one my dad heard from his dad when he was a child, and he was already in his 40s when he sired me, who’s closing in on 50 now.

I guess she meant “raze”. “Raise to the ground” would mean it was already below ground. Just a heads-up, not making fun of you.

That’s like Vito Corleone complaining about bugs in his office.

purpose

Okay, so what you’re saying is that you think friction creates a sense of purpose. That might be true. People in Mexico are probably more happy about little things and enjoy them more, because that’s what they have. Less freedom of choice paradox to contend with, and less free time to sink into depression (I believe in “the olden times”, people were just too tired from fighting to survive to sit down and have an existential crisis). That sounds like a valid idea and is supporting your point.

The question is, how can we combine my (borrowed from the Culture series) idea of a post scarcity society with your idea of a psychological need for friction? Do you think it’s impossible to simulate the same feeling of need for something to result in the same strain that then causes happiness?