It's a FOMO, bigger is better, kind of thing. I think some people came here looking for a replacement, which can't happen, instead of looking for a community, which can.
True, because it's also a giant Ponzi scheme. We pick up new debt today to pay off debt from yesterday, and we hope expanding GDP and inflation will always offset the difference.
For a lot of folks, I think this is accurate, but the problem is that the US has totally and absolutely exhausted all of its WWI/WWII "good guy" image on the global scene.. As a base line, I feel generally neutral about where I was born, because I had no control over it. It's when I show empathy and factor in the opinion of others that things sour. The US military spent 2/3 of my life bombing Afghan villagers, and they mortgaged my future to do it. I can't be proud of that. We allowed unfettered greed to run rampant with no supervision and crashed the world economy multiple times. I'm not proud of that either.
I have this conversation with some of my older relatives occasionally, and I always tell them that in order for me to be proud, the US needs to do something that's worth being proud of. And while there are some small things, there's nothing that outweighs the immense damage the US has done to the world as a whole in my lifetime.
I mean, for the joke, Subaru and L.L. Bean are the obvious choices, but it's also the kind of joke where part of the joke is that it's also not a joke.
I feel like one of the best spots for a fun movie is critic rating 40-50%, and an audience rating of 70-75%. It'll be brainless enough you can take a piss without missing anything, but fun enough you can still guzzle some popcorn.
I'd guess it's purely to avoid litigation from Twitter. If they didn't poach Twitter employees or IP, and instead based some of their platform on open source, fediverse stuff, that's not a multiyear lawsuit with hundreds of millions in lawyer fees.
I want a Jurassic Park re-re-boot with big bird boys just chomping on everything. Bird dinosaurs are so much scarier and cooler than lizard dinosaurs and you cannot change my mind.
There are so many ways you can waterproof a phone and have a user replaceable battery and still keep it thin and sleek. But that doesn't sell a new iPhone to someone every 2 years. It's why anytime Apple, or any company like them, spouts off about how green they are, I know they're full of shit. They intentionally cause so much waste it's insane.
It was interesting that the stats they were talking about were time to respond and time to close, which are both key customer service stats. I'd be interested to know what the customer satisfaction rating was.
If I message, and someone answers immediately, but I figure out it's a bot and I'm not getting anywhere after a minute, I stop and leave a bad review. From a time standpoint, the interaction looks great. When you integrate the CSAT score, it's terrible. A quick response contributes to a good interaction, but it doesn't make it good outright, unless you don't actually care about whether customers are helped.
There's a lot of anxiety because it's topical. Nearly ever user here I'd wager, myself included, just flipped to Lemmy as we watched Reddit break the camel's back.
I think what most people don't quite realize though is why this is happening. Reddit isn't just gearing up for an IPO, they're transitioning to the model spearheaded by Apple: you access their ecosystem exclusively through their platform.
Every large tech company is trying to play this game. They are developing hardware that gives sole access to their platform which in turn controls the experience and distribution of their content. Apple is best at it and massively profitable, but everyone is trying it. Most already have the software>>>content pipeline locked down, it's the hardware they can't get right.
That being said, Meta understands that the easiest way to grow Threads is to flip Instagram and Facebook users, not Mastadon users. The easiest way to keep users is not some defederation long con, it's to get your grandma and your spouse on their platform. The goal for Meta is to reach a critical mass tipping point, where as a society, most people agree you just have to have an account through them to be part of a larger conversation. They aren't trying to kill federalized platforms directly, because it's easier to skip that step and try to make every platform that isn't their own second tier at best. It's in their best interest to ignore everyone else and just on-board as much of their Instagram and Facebook base as possible in the next year.
It's because a lot of conservatives believe in a really screwed up, masochistic, bastardized version of Christianity that prioritizes vengeance, punishment, and anger. It ignores the love, kindness, acceptance, and mercy (ie the actual teachings of Jesus) that make society work well.
So, when kids come home with these new ideas about kindness and acceptance, because being kind to a gay classmate is a great way to demonstrate the love real Christianity teaches and society values, the parents freak out. They push to ban books, fire teachers, and move their kids to private schools that more match their hate filled, divisive worldview. Education polluted their child with abnormal, liberal indoctrination, like being kind, empathetic, and accepting of others.
I an attempt to steer their children back to their core values of hate and divisiveness, they lash out. Any pushback the parents feel in response becomes persecution, because of course "the world" would disagree with them. They're the TRUE Christians afterall. So they isolate in ecochambers, and they get more hateful. Any difference of opinion is met with derision and just simply validates their position. And despite being the TRUE Christians, or REAL conservatives, they become less Christian and less conservative every day, instead just becoming these weird, evil, empty husks of people with no real values or ideals outside of hate.
I don't know. I think it speaks to something that we sometimes forget. Self hosting is great, but there's a bit of time and commitment that's needed for almost everything. Most people are used to single click, always works apps. Doing your own building, diagnostics, troubleshooting, and deployment can be a headache that's too much for some people.
It's a FOMO, bigger is better, kind of thing. I think some people came here looking for a replacement, which can't happen, instead of looking for a community, which can.