I like the idea of using a symbol but its ugly sadly

They planned ahead to make it popular, twitter developed it while losing money, my conspiracy theory is their goal was always to transition to bluesky since its model is more sustainable for long term control

Why do they want google scraping text they paywalled, they decided this

Id love to see the fediverse represented as a 2d mmo like habbo hotel or club penguin where different ppl represent commenters. Little bubbles over their head showing their last comment. Idk if gamified socialmedia/forums are a thing, would love to see it. Idle game built into the fediverse with leaderboards to encourage posting/commenting (not karma based) Max daily boost limit so it doesn’t encourage spam.

If someone built a pokemon /digimon/yugioh clone into any of these, with inventory attached to profile, that would be pretty peak.

sharkey seems to have good lemmy support

Mans giving them a lot of credit lmao

If he has support, he’ll be fine. My issues learning stuff growing up was no one in my family to teach me anything, so frustration and giving up was common. Imo fishings just boring af most ppl would hate it, especially if you don’t like nature. Learning code is way easier younger, your brain just makes associations related to language easier. Coding itself isn’t particularlly hard, easier the younger you learn.
There are coding related games on iphone like human resource factory that might help.

Id introduce them to scratch on the tablet and see if they like that.

We reached a point a while ago where yall saying shit like this became the “normies”

If I was losing money and wanted to mantain control over the public id become a public benefit corp too

So twitter didn’t make money anyways, this is a better way for them to hold power

Bluesky was always twitters goal, they were losing hella money, so they devloped blue sky.

The public freakout sub apparently, commented on an alt on a post with thousands of comments, and it was an auto perm ban for my 3 accounts for evading a ban, I was someone who liked commenting into the void, not getting replys on front page posts felt weirdly good. The comment that got me banned wasn’t controversial, it was automatic and instant.

Its prob because of my self hosted instance being iffy(goes down for a few seconds at a time because all of my cpus will go from 18% to 100% for a second sometimes, think friendica causes it), the other apps dont have issues reconnecting when it tweaks, thunder I usually have to force close a few times before it works again, thats more of a shoddyinstance issue with the app.

Everything is hard to search and ppl pull the same its already been asked before stuff in there lol Great idea moving help forums to a chat, as a supplement its great, terrible as the main/only option.

Shoutout reddit for banning me, they accidentally helped me pull myself out of a cycle of looking at news that pissed me off and arguing with strangers. Lemmys a lot better with it, reddits just filled with controversy algorithim and bot posts. It got me to delete X too, same problem since musk took over, miss the old agorithim, but its never coming back. (old reddit is dead too, gotta accept it, was fun af while it lasted)

When you get paid more based off engagement ofc mfs are going to be controversial, and ofc thats what they want since it keeps ppl on the app

Thunder has become my main, has the least issues for me, been meaning to customize arctic since its a bit quicker being native. Thunder will sometimes take a bit to post a comment.

Reddit, ruined forums, I loved checking forums, I wish federation became a thing back then and all the forums interconnected instead of moving or dying due to reddit communities. It bugs me how they went from being a useful hub for the internet, a link aggregator, guide to the web with wiki/comments to a walled garden.

People don’t like redditors in general, its an insult, I dont think lemmy has the same vibe but its also not popular

I didn’t know a single redditor either, some ppl who had seen my name (my dumbass doxed my full unique name as my username when I was a kid and I didnt change it forever) irl had mentioned it to me, but they didn’t use it past google, they weren’t posting, commenting, or signing up

If I was goodlooking or a celeb, tiktok would be op, Druski was talking about how it is for him, and the algorithim is basically constantly showing him ppls hes interested in, and since he actually has the money and means to contact and meet them its been hella bad for his brain to know theirs always another options out there that tiktok can show him, that fits what he likes perfectly (more than he knows), because algorithim.