Hopefully the worst it can be is a reddit-clone and not other big social media. I wish there's a better way to aggregate all lemmy posts and make them searchable in search engines. I reckon it's the allure of reddit, the random collection of information and discussion from ordinary people you can easily find from search engine without (or at least, less obvious) marketing ploy to sell something. That's the one thing sadly can't be replaced by lemmy yet.
Maybe there should be a universal lemmy search engine for that? Not just to search communities but also for posts and comments (outside the search option in an instance because it's limited to communities that are joined by the members of that particular instances). I'm not sure how difficult it's going to be.
It would take times, the more informative content we have (even the what's your top 5 thing posts) that common people use search engine to look up for and find, the more we will get exposure, just like how reddit find its audience. Imo, as long as lemmy doesn't get into front page of search engine, I'm afraid the number of lemmyverse users that migrate from reddit won't sharply increase unless reddit does more fuckups. This might also mean, there will be inevitably one or a select few big lemmy instances that will get more exposure.
In any case, it's not necessarily a bad thing; Lemmy (and kbin) needs a lot of improvement to be accessible to most people. Let people that are tech-savvy and those who are passionate in open-source projects improve it first. Otherwise, others will try and find lemmy too complicated to use as it is right now and not interested in using it later down the road.
Just for the sake of clarity, the poster isn't from beehaw, only posted on beehaw community, so chances are they can go straight to the BG3 community in lemmy.world.
Thanks regardless! Didn't know there's a BG3 community already. I'm still in fence about buying it because of the price and my massive backlog, waiting until the full release and maybe discount further along the way 🥲
Thanks for reminding me. I used RES and curated my reddit page to only subreddits I personally followed; I forgot that many redditors have different experience than mine. Most of subreddits in r/popular (or is it r/all?) are just user engagement machine. I agree that's probably not great for mental health in a long term.
I wonder if this source of mental health decline i.e. anxiety and depression:
The researchers posit that social comparison with peers is behind those results
means that social media such as reddit (ugh) or lemmy have less negative effect or a different one? I don’t think I have problem with social comparison by browsing lemmy but I do feel like I still spend more time than necessary. Some kind of FOMO I guess.
Offline translation, nice. I'm gonna miss Opera GX stylish theme but I'm ready to ditch Chromium-based browser again, at least on desktop :D
Edit: I'be checked the add-on, unfortunately my mother language and other popular languages are not supported yet.