Kichae @ Kichae @kbin.social

Astronomer & video game data scientist with repressed anger

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They're not actually high, though. They were basically non-existent for 15 years, but now they're basically back to 2007 levels.

This is VC's signalling that they don't believe these social platforms can survive in an era where money isn't literally free for them.

No. No, not at all.

It's the increases in interest rates. The Venture Capitalists are ok not seeing a return on their investments while interest rates are effectively nil, but higher interest rates change the risk/reward balance.

Yes. This is a very normal engagement pattern. It feels like the author did no real research at all, and is spinning a narrative.

On some level, protest is about harming other people, at least mildly. Protests are frustrating. Protests are interrupting. Protested make it more difficult for people to do what they want.

This is by design. This is part of the point.

Protests that aren't inconveniencing people are protests that can be safely ignored.

It's all the better, though, when those inconveniences can be paired with a clear alternative for people to turn to to have their needs met.

And I live in a right to work state!

Right-to-work is the work-for-welfare program. I would imagine it would have no impact on people who aren't applying for social services.

I'm assuming the overlap between right-to-work and at-will-empmloyment states is a near perfect circle, though. And the fun thing about at-will employment is that it's totally nullified by an actual, mutually negoatiated employment contract, with, like, responsibilities laid on the employer and consequences for failing to perform them. You know, like what you get with a strong union.

The guidelines, they be bein' ignarrrrrred

predatory government loan

privatized ... fiscally responsible

Man, I know things are über fucked in the US, but WTF is this nonsense?

Eh, I still use it a little bit. I follow Blue Jays games via the team's subreddit, and the Pathfinder community hasn't really migrated over, so scan that every couple of days. And the memes have just clobbered my feed these last couple of days, even after blocking most of the meme groups.

But I'm using Reddit very differently now.

This is just a normal new product engagement pattern. Especially in a market where you're dealing with parity products.

People hear the hype, so checkout the product. They spend a few days kicking the wheels and comparing it to what they already have. Then people return to old habits and old products.

The tech news has lost its mind with respect to these things, trying to excitedly report on every minor fluctuation in web traffic. I don't hold the business press in any esteem, but I did expect them to not fall into the same trap on this one.

Guess I was wrong.

Fevers are part of the healing process!

This is heavy, Doc!

It depends on what you mean by "mass exodus".

There has been a mass exodus, in the sense that a mass of people have exited the site and moved elsewhere in a very short period of time. There has not been one, in the sense that the majority of users have left the site.

I get that the people most affected by changes may want to feel like literally everyone and their dog pulled up stakes to follow them. That they'd want that sense of solidarity, and the feeling that they're giving a proper "Fuck you" to the people that ruined their good time. And I get that people who are just exploring new spaces want to feel like they're choosing the "winning" side.

But that isn't the way these things work.

Habits are sticky. Familiar spaces are sticky. Most people do not like change, and will coats to momentum for as long as that momentum exists. They're not going to migrate until Reddit is completely crumbling.

And maybe we don't want them to.

This space is not ready for 50 million people. The moderation tools aren't there yet. The infrastructure to keep them from just jumping on a single server isn't there yet. The tools and documentation to help people easily set up new instances are still new and being stress tested.

The goal of killing a billion dollar company, or three of them even, isn't within reach. That's not a thing that happens overnight. But this is the ground work for taking on that task.

The first thing people need before they can even consider leaving is a viable alternative, and that's what we're making here by being active, and interesting.

Philosoraptor is in the house. I'm happy. Nature is healing.

The tired light hypothesis has been fringe for decades. This is an interesting application of it, but this paper isn't going to be accepted without some rather vigorous challenge. It'll be years of new observations and dozens of new studies re-examining already published data before the dust settles on this.

Yup. Not the first time I've heard this. A friend of mine went out with a rich guy a few times, and he's park anywhere ye wanted. To him, the fine was literally just what it cost to park.

The rich see the world differently than the rest of us. To them, money actually let's them do what every they want. They understand it as a currency of power, not exchange.

Naturally, but that's sort of the magic of community-run initiatives. People give because they want to contribute, because it's about making something together, and not about being exploited.

It's just amazing what people can do when the central goal isn't for like 2 people to become billionaires at the end of the day.

Wow, you're running lemmy.world, mastodon.world, and calckey.world for 1200 EUR/month? Thtat's kind of incredible. Lemmy.world says you have about 28k MAU (I assume that's posting/commenting, not just logged-in users?), and mastodon.world says 37k active users (is that daily, weekly, or monthly?) So, that's 65k active users (out of 200k-300k accounts) at 1.8 cents/month each.

The costs of community owned social media are even less than I had pictured.

From a practical standpoint, sure, that's a way of thinking about it.

Strictly speaking, though, both Lemmy and kbin are different content aggregator/community forum engines that makr use of the same communication protocol, meaning they can read and properly interpret messages sent from each other. This means they're both totally independent of each other, but also can host the exact same posts and comments, allowing people to basically treat them as the same thing.

Ugh. The mole people are escaping again.

The last pre-order bonus I got was a pair of socks. That killed my interest in extraneous offers.