ClarkDoom @ ClarkDoom @lemmy.world

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Please leave knee-jerk reactions on Reddit. There’s no reason to talk to people like that.

Underrated comment. I understand making a comment every now and then that's negative (people should be free to reasonably complain) but whole subs devoted to hating on something create the most toxic environments and echo chambers on the internet while inadvertently contributing to the popularity of the thing they hate. The universe grows what you give attention to so I think its best to focus your attention on things you love instead of what you hate.

I can't stand "this is the way". Everytime I read it I imagine the person saying it having absolutely no personality or uniqueness about them. Feels like the ultimate NPC statement.

This is outrageous and a perfect unpopular opinion.

I’m a little hard up for cash so if anyone purchasing would be interested in sharing the pdf version with me until I can purchase the physical book I would forever be grateful ♥️

I’m just gonna go ahead and say it, I love Ethan Peck’s Spock. I feel like he nails the mannerisms and brings his own brand of gravitas to the character that makes him feel unique instead of like an impersonation.

We’re all using lemmy on self-hosted servers. Videos take up a massive amount of space relatively and they aren’t economical for those individuals footing the bill. Upload via 3rd party and share the link until better solutions are available.

One of the points of federated and decentralized social media is that there’s no need to profit. The concept is that communities are built by individuals instead of a central institutions and the communal gain is what incentivizes folks to host servers and participate. I see it as a similar ecosystem as the open source software community who constantly gives everything away for free because it serves the common good, enables faster innovation and widens the spread of knowledge that makes everyone more successful/efficient at the end of the day. If these decentralized social networks can provide the same level of benefit as Reddit, I.e. people adding “Reddit” to their search queries to get first hand answers, I think that’s the singularity point at which people will realize giant social network corporations are completely unnecessary. I can’t wait. Seems inevitable to me because the entire business model of the current centralized networks is unsustainable - part of the reason you see Reddit making such drastic moves regarding their API or Meta investing in anything and everything outside of social media or Twitter throwing unnecessary digital products at the wall and hoping people pay for some of them. Once decentralized social networks are mainstream the ad target pool is going to be greatly affected and these companies will collapse under their own weight if they haven’t pivoted to something else.