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  • I don’t know how many users reddit has, but it is a lot more than lemmy. Lemmy is quite small in terms of number of users.

    But I think focusing on relative numbers of users is a mistake. Forty thousand people is still a lot of people. And we can see that it is enough people to create a vibrant community with a steady stream of good content and conversations. So the fact that it is small compared to other social media is not really relevant, in my opinion. Having a thousand times more users doesn’t make things a thousand times better - that’s for sure.

    (That said, I do think its worth noting if the number of users is going up or down… because if there was a significant downward trend, that would be a bad sign.)


  • In my experience winapps doesn’t work well enough to use for work. I had almost constant issues with it.

    That’s a disappointing to hear - but it’s exactly the experience I hoped to avoid myself by asking about it. So thank you!

    Your setup for getting nice *nix stuff on Windows sounds good, but for me it isn’t so much that I want to use *nix stuff but rather that I want to avoid Windows stuff. For example, today I got a popup notification from Microsoft suggesting that I should install an xbox app. … I said ‘no’, and quickly disabled those kinds of suggestions. Easy - except that I’ve disabled various ‘suggestions’ in Windows countless times. Its a constant chore keeping up with new anti-features constantly being added. So that’s really what I’m trying to avoid.




  • You’d be buying the domain name, not the lemmy instance. So if you wanted to replace every post with whatever, you’d first have to set up your own server and create a new lemmy instance for your newly purchased domain name. You’d have to take extra sets then to mangle your lemmy instance such that it didn’t show the real posts but instead showed what you wanted…

    In the end that technical work would be more expensive than the domain name… and probably not worth the effort for a short-lived and mean-spirited joke.




  • blind3rdeye@lemm.eeto196@lemmy.worldFilm Rule
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    2 days ago

    I never talk when watching a movie… unless I’m watching it on my own. If I’m on my own I can do the whole “wtf are they doing?” and laugh and swear and pause to get a snack without having to worry about disturbing anyone.

    Watching with company can be nice for the shared experience, but watching alone is good for the unencumbered relaxation.





  • There’s a lot of unease about this, because some people believe everyone should just vote for the better of the two options; whereas other people believe the option needs to be good before they will vote for it.

    Americans were given a choice between two options. One option was clearly better than the other, but the poorer option won, because the better option wasn’t good enough.

    It reminds me a bit of the game-theory around the game ‘ultimatum’. Should we just accept whatever is offered, since it is still better than the alternative? Or should we sacrifice our meager reward to spite the person who offered an unfair split?



  • blind3rdeye@lemm.eetomemes@lemmy.worldWelcome ex-Redditors!
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    6 days ago

    From what I can tell, this tankie stuff is bullshit. In the years I’ve been here, I’ve seen close to zero ‘tankie’ content from any of these supposedly tankie instances. There’s like maybe one or two people on those instances who might fit the description if you search for them. Meanwhile, literally every day there are posts spitting on these supposed tankie instances. (And actually, it’s again a very small number of people complaining - but they put their crap into cute memes to get traction).

    I don’t like the idea of shouting slurs at entire instances. In my view, if you hate those instances so much - just block them. Problem solved. No need to spew hate all over lemmy.







  • I’m sorry it bothers you like that.

    I personally don’t feel alienated or attacked at all by the kinds of comments you are describing. When I see a comment like “men murder women”, I think of it in the same kind of way comments like “humans are horrible” or “Australians are racist” or “young people have no attention span”… That is to say it describes a trend or someone’s perception of a tendency but does not refer to any specific individual.

    People aren’t saying these things to attack you. They are saying them to communicate their own feelings of being unsafe. And to be frank, feeling that you shouldn’t go for a walk at night because it is too dangerous is a pretty serious thing which has obvious negative effects - and the concern is based in reality. It isn’t just a perception problem. So we should take these comments seriously - not just complain about the people saying them.