MonkeMischief @ MonkeMischief @lemmy.today

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Maybe for the Discord use-case of joining mass-community servers it simply doesn't have the network-effect yet. I haven't used it much myself sadly! But I imagine a lot of users had the same idea you did: "Let's make a server! Aw nobody's here."

But I think adoption would grow if we started using it for what a LOT of people use Discord for currently: The micro-server for get-togethers of smaller social circles.

• Voice chat for videogames
• Small digital meet-ups, like artists, churches, clubs, etc.
• Distance-playing tabletop RPGs.
• College study groups.

That's where adoption starts and snowballs. Unfortunately, I believe the VC-funded data-mining corpo-apps will always have the advantage in scooping up the "I want to join a crowded mass community room" users.

But that's okay for a start.

The way I see it, we need to be most concerned with keeping our security and privacy amongst our closest associates, and occasionally we'll need to venture out into the "commercial-net" with our hoodies up and sunglasses on to interact with the crowd, fully aware there's surveillance everywhere.

At first my brain started assuming you were just memeing a monologue from Deus Ex, then I realized this was an original comment all original text. How sad is that? Lol

...just without the neat cyberpunk stuff.

And this was the game written on the unbelievable, edgy premise "...where every conspiracy theory is real." Lol

Edit: lol weird ratio. Okay maybe I was a clumsy communicator there, I meant "How sad is it that my first thought was a Deus Ex monologue perfectly fitting with our current times, but we don't even have sweet nanotech".

Also, that game's premise was trying to be just a little bit dystopianly-ridiculous, and it's now considered prophetic.

That's a super neat trick actually. Why the heck has RSS been losing popularity when it seems to be the only magic protocol you really need to keep up with what you actually care about?

Oh I just answered my own question: It must be harder to hijack RSS with intrusive ads and clickbait...

I still don't think I understand the full utility of RSS. I guess it's good for forum communication too?

Because my first thought was "RSS is cool but first we need human-written content and blogs to come back."

Zulip sounds neat!

Shoutout to https://revolt.chat/ as a Discord alternative too.

Ah, that captures such a stark answer to why people use xitter though.

It's not "so I can hear from you" it's "So YoU cAn HeAr FrOm Us!!!11oneone"

Walled gardens? More like prison yard. Lol

That's how it works in the Planescape universe. Lol

So weird, I just heard this phrase in its entirety from Dr. Smith, of the classic Lost in Space series.

It's such a goofy show but the dialogue can be shockingly eloquent.

"Proof is in the pudding" always got to me too... Thought it was some old weird Baker-farmer-ism or something Lol.

Ah! I'll read this over dinner.

Bone apple tea! :p

Wh... What are you doing, step-toe?

"Let's flush out this design."

"You got it!" [Slowly readies a grenade.]

Reminds me of that story where a fellow on the lake was chilly and tried to start a small fire in the boat, but it just burned a hole through it and he had to swim to shore.

Just goes to show you...

"You can't have your kayak and heat it, too."

I've seen this too! It baffles me!

It's like, "Hey if your sentence contains 'a women', or 'one women', you've got a subject-number agreement error." Lol

We're at a point in the information age where even the poor, for now, tend to have access to libraries and smartphones even if the school system failed them. I've known many with advanced vocabulary and disproportionate economic status. Heck, I'm not rich either but I know words and letters mean things if we're to communicate well.

Many poor immigrants will say "sorry for my English" but be significantly more eloquent than the majority of privileged kids on Reddit or whatever. The difference? They care about being understood clearly.

There's a certain irritation when it comes to people on the Internet who have the world at their fingertips and misuse language out of lazy habit, and continue to do so, even when gently and non-judgingly corrected.

This seems to happen often enough that misspellings or misuse seem to mislead people new to the concept or language, into an incorrect understanding in the first place.

It's a silly discussion on willful, stubborn ignorance and how that's a pet peeve. Nothing to get too bent out of shape over.

Yep. This is the one. It irks the heck out of me when people are saying something to the effect of "I had a bad experience once, now I'm tired and fatigued about this situation in the future."

Or "I would be worn out, like after a long hike or something, about things that sound too good to be true, folks! Be careful!"

Agghhh! Lol. I get English can be awfully confusing sometimes but I've been seeing this one pop up a LOT more recently.

(Dis)honors also go to "loosing my keys" or "being a stealthy rouge"

Reminds me of an oilfield... Town? Region? Camp? My uncle told me about called "Dead Horse, Alaska". It gets so cold there they need to keep the diesel equipment fueled and running constantly or it doesn't come on again without major intervention.

Sounds absolutely nuts to me, but I guess spreadsheets say the black-gold more than pays for burning nasty fuel 24/7 just to be there.

I like "-style", because it has the implication that fits with the rest of his life thus far: The gesture was that of a cringy poser making a pathetic attempt to impress the very worst kinds of people, and he was so sloppy, that bought news corpos could actually attempt to say there's room for doubt.

Lol.

LMAO.

Behold the loser weirdo man, who can 'heil' about as well as he games.

does he… does he know how the story ended?

Let's lock him alone in a bunker with a Walther PPK for a few hours to see for ourselves.

And those who do, are condemned to watch the rest of them repeat it. :(

Yeah but he's locked behind obscure paywalls anymore so he's hard to keep up with.

Which sucks because I always liked his rational commentary balanced against other pundit-comedians' "You-should-be-outraged-we-should-be-outraged" schtick.