Dr. Moose @ drmoose @lemmy.world

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Chinese culture has almost satirical levels of disrespect and misunderstanding of animals so it's very much on character.

I used to have 3 rescue rats and they are incredibly clean, active and social animals. I'd used to take them outside and observe how they explore new areas and its was really incredible how coordinated and thought out their exploration plans would be and executed with utter most curiosity. Also very cute how they'd come back to me and ask to be taken home to their cage by basically hugging my foot.

lmao it even looks like cheeks spreading

You're using appeal to popularity to claim that Telegram has good UX because more users use it which makes no sense unless you have A|B test that you can execute right now to prove your point.

Just because it's popular does not mean it's good especially when the market in this scenario has no choice or vote how the UX is implemented.

Which specific issues and in which regard?

The one you mentioned for starters - following multiple channels in a single feed.

Telegram has a terrible UX for social networking and feed following - it's a private messaging app that has been hacked together into use case it was never made for in the first place and it really shows.

Market has decided that this UX is good

Lol

Maybe you should start with real existing technologies when you do your analysis: rss, federation, graphql. Group chat is the most primitive of feed types and is incredibly outdated UX in 2025. Even RSS - technology from 1999 - has solved the issues telegram is still trying to solve now 26 years later.

Tbh reserving "main" is just a hacky if not more so than checking __name__ if you actually understand language design.

enshittification is full force now

Nah but Chavs are illiterate and uneducated like rednecks just less country and more urban

Not really. It just group chats and some are used as news feeds.

Its one of those terrible UX where people force a tool to do something it's not supposed to like Discord for forums etc.

Its basically used for piracy and drug markets for tech illiterate but somehow caught on.

Yes basically no side effect. I was being generous with my monkey paw because we really needs this super power right now

I don't think accuracy is an issue either. I've been on the web since inception and we always had a terribly inaccurate information landscape. It's really about individual ability to put together found information to an accurate world model and LLMs is a tool just like any other.

The real issues imo are effects on society be it information manipulation, breaking our education and workforce systems. But all of that is overshadowed by meme issues like energy use or inaccuracy as these are easy to understand for any person while sociology, politics and macro economics are really hard.

a benevolent authoritarian dictator has to die as well.

so it's just normal store-bought ice then huh

1 European gay is equivalent to 1.91 american gays

Honestly I just wanted to cool my drinks but I'll take flattening cities too 🙂‍↕️

No gay cords allowed!

Can create perfectly round and transparent ice cubes out of thin air.

This would only work in a perfect capitalism but that's not our reality. Once a company acquires status that can control and drive the society the society has the right to correct for that.

Apple was too greedy to the point where courts have decided that their greed costs society more than society gains from Apple. There's no philosophical binary formula here.

As in entertainment - yes. But when it comes to realistic representation and imagination as sci-fi then no.

it's really difficult as all magic that we understand becomes science. To create this artificial gap the world has to answer - why can't science understand, reverse engineer and bend magic?

Most scientific progression is very rapid. If fireballs exist then there will be a giant 1,000 rpm fireball machine by the end of the week and that's no longer magic as we see it.

So there has to be a strong artificial limitation why magic exists and cannot be understood and harvested which is really hard to write in scifi. You have to introduce religion, spiritual mysticism or some sort of societal control mechanism that prevents reverse engineering magic which is really hard to do in a way that satisfies the readers cognitive dissonance.

Personally I have found stories like that like Warhammer 40k, Star Wars etc. But without a big, establishrd name it's so hard to convince the reader. I recently finished the wheel of time and really couldn't get over this which ruined the entire premise for me.

Your mistake here is assuming that this level of thought is possible by trump. There's no 4d chess here. He's just being played for an idiot cause that's what he is.

It's so hard to voice this opinion online. Both are the bad guys and really fucking bad ones at that. Clear as day.