It’s making it so easy.

Saw a toddler with a phone in hand today, maybe a year. Couldn’t walk yet, but had no trouble scrolling.

This world has finally become sentient and decided to make us wipe each other out.

I’d like to know, too. Especially considering most servers I’m on are unlikely to switch.

“human animals”… reminiscent of “Untermenschen”.

We don’t have the medical treatment yet. But we’re getting close.

I guess you’d call this growing pains, and it’s good this happens this early and is being done in such a manner. There’s just no way to reason with corporate, you have to point a gun at its head to make it move.

Every decision he makes only hastens Twitter’s demise.

YouTube is weird. I’m watching solarpunk videos and it recommends me Jordan Peterson. Or I watch Joscha Bach and it floods me with AI-doomerism.

Gonna check out Connect, thank you :)

I don’t think Lemmy will reach or overtake Reddit. That’s a good thing in my opinion, because massive platforms come with massive moderation problems that aren’t so easy to tackle for decentralised networks. We’ve seen that when someone posted kiddie porn and several servers went down to scrub the filth from their systems.

If anything, Lemmy already has a pretty high amount of troll communities, thankfully mostly contained within their own servers, which enables separation through defederation (speaking of defederation, I’d love to have an option to block servers on the user level).

I’d think it’s more that there’s now more media fighting your attention. When I was a kid (GenX here), we had a handful of TV channels and books. Books was what I went with.

Nowadays, I get home from work and watch something on YouTube before bed. I still read, but my standards have risen, and a trashy space opera won’t do it anymore for me. It has to be a great one now, and there are fewer of them. So, naturally, YouTube gets a bigger share of my time. Or games, when I have time to play on the weekends. My comfort game used to be Civilization, and currently I’m hooked on Baldurs Gate.

What exactly is the “truth” in that zero effort meme?

Not everyone is an English native.

People could see their reflection in the water long before they climbed down from the branches.

Will do, thanks :)

What do you mean by “the bad decision part”?

Writing, of course. I’m in the middle of a new project, which will be a pretty long space opera series. Not worrying about publishing any of it anytime soon, though, and I’m still tackling parts of the backstory and the arcs of various characters while the first part of the first book is already drafted.

Was thinking about that and decided to just shelve my books for now and decide later. Not in a hurry to publish.

Not even AI can detect AI-generated text though.