regular people will never get rid of twitter or meta, Facebook. YouTube. it's incompatible with their psychology.
they need to use what other people are using, they need to see "content" from their followed users
switching to another platform will kill that for them for weeks and stall their "growth"
to be forward thinking and to give up something you've had is too much for the average person
which is why I'm on Lemmy: there's nothing reddit offers to me that makes me "give" it up, it's always been there but now that there's competition it's worth trying something new out
I honestly think id anything Lemmy will have a slow decrease of users until it comes to a halt
suits don't give a shit about anything except lining their pockets. part of the job is to say things that get public approval which is often mistaken as them actually caring for said things
this is why I keep my config as minimal as possible and everything I do is up on a GitHub repo
inb4 just use nix, cloning a repo and putting the right files in the right spots is something that can be scripted with relative ease and nix is way overkill unless you're using it for application deployments in money making incentives
there are systems in place that know how to allocate funds better than just giving it to someone
(and yes some of these orgs are bad as well)
but imo there is a way to be altruistic and share a small percentage of your income towards and org with a good reputation (and hopefully some research was done)
which is far better than walking up to vulnerable people. sticking a camera at them and handing them bills
I don't think I'm very ND but it's very obvious to me in all social settings that I'm not NT. it's a variety of things, but typically it's like people staring straight into your eye balls when you talk to them, or the touching, or things like queueing or pathing to and from a place
I've used Windows since the late 90s and I've had infinite blue screen loops before. probably a hardware issue but it's not like this fear is irrational.
it's definitely free labor for them, they're incompetent and likely checking notes on how other more competent people would approach deploying in whatever fashion they want to
okay. a weird thing about English is when people say "I'll have a water" similar to "a grilled cheese". why don't they say the full thing? "a cup of water" or "a grilled cheese sandwich" same thing with coffee etc.
same, I thrived in COVID. no more commutes, literal 4.0 terms because I can nap in between online classes and do homework on 2nd monitor but pay attention when the lecture gets somewhere fuzzy
very hot take:
regular people will never get rid of twitter or meta, Facebook. YouTube. it's incompatible with their psychology.
they need to use what other people are using, they need to see "content" from their followed users
switching to another platform will kill that for them for weeks and stall their "growth"
to be forward thinking and to give up something you've had is too much for the average person
which is why I'm on Lemmy: there's nothing reddit offers to me that makes me "give" it up, it's always been there but now that there's competition it's worth trying something new out
I honestly think id anything Lemmy will have a slow decrease of users until it comes to a halt