/nextfuckinglevel is so annoying when it gets to /all. Usually it’s some trivial activity that is executed well or someone just doing their job. Nothing “next level” about it at all.

Also any of the large subs that get flooded with fucking TikTok videos. In the beginning everybody pointed out the shitty songs or fake laugh tracks etc, now it seems everyone just gave up and accepted it.

Sounds coherent. Would you say there are any effective tools to counter that problem? I wonder what the central banks can do at the moment, because it seems they are kind of in a deadlock regarding the control of inflation.

Now the governmental situation plays into their hands. It’s the first government that consists of three parties that in parts have diametrically opposed ideologies and policies. It was clear from the beginning that there would be a lot of friction happening. They openly argue about urgent topics, most recently about a proposed heating-reform, now passing over to a debate about the EU migration reform. While you can dislike aspects of the form of these debates, in my opinion they are, in essence, a sign of a healthy democratic culture. But the problem is that the former mentioned morons are unsettled by these debates and see them as a sign of a weak government. So what they do, instead of trying to understand what is happening or trying to take part in shaping these debates, is that they succumb to their feeling of fear and look for someone who paints themselves as a strong leader and give them a feeling of stability, paving the path for the group mentioned in 2.

Things like inflation and the Ukraine war of course don’t contribute to the confidence of the population with their governments, but the morons fail to grasp that these things aren’t in full control of a single government, so they spout shit like “the greens made gas expensive” or “the greens keep the Ukraine war going with weapon deliveries”. It’s always the greens, because they seem to be the only party that is far enough away from the AfD ideologically to not have significant amounts of voters moving over, so they are perfect for negative projection.

*This is also the reason why neither the “collective movement” approach nor the “big tent” approach work for the left: There are too many factions who believe their doctrine is the only relevant truth and they are neither able to make compromises or subordinate their faction under another one. This can be seen as a good thing democracy-wise, but it’s a shit precondition if you need to prevent fascism.

It’s bad, but you could see it coming for a couple of years. It’s only a matter of time until they manage to win a state. I guess it’s going to be Saxony and/or Thuringia.

In my opinion there are two rules of thumb regarding voting population and politics in Germany and probably western countries in general:

1. A third of every population consists of morons who are easily deceived by right wing populists who manage to present themselves as the rebellious underdog. UK, France, USA, Sweden etc., you can see that everywhere. These people, for some reason I still fail to fully understand, are unable to make a connection between their legitimate feeling of betrayal through our current system (aka capitalism) and factual solutions. Instead they follow those who do not offer solutions and instead propose to make everything worse, but, like I said, manage to present themselves as the ones who “fight the system”. All right wing populists have something in common: They do not publicly say too much about what policies they are effectively going to implement, resulting in them being a huge canvas for every kind of projected wishes their voters have. That’s why Trump worked for conspiracy nuts, libertarians, religious extremists, right wing extremists, moderate conservatives, economically liberals and unpolitical dumbasses alike. Everyone of these factions could project what they wanted for society into what Trump would do, because aside from singular statements, Trump was actually pretty vague in what he wanted. The whole stupid “drain the swamp” theme is a perfect representation of what I mean. The AfDs motto in the last general election was “Germany, but normal”. The proposal of Brexit basically functioned like that, too. It was going to solve all the problems for whatever reason and enough people believed it.

2. About 10% of the German population (huge overlap with the proportion mentioned in 1.), and it might be the same for other western countries but i don’t know, are more or less openly fascist. These are the ones who profit from a “collective movement” that manages to assemble different parts of the political spectrum. This is different from a “big tent” approach where a compromise between related groups is thought to give them all a political representation.* This is not a new invention. The NSDAP functioned just like that. They managed to gather a huge chunk of the political spectrum around them, from nobility over capitalists over nationalists to liberals deep into the the political left. There were even former social-democrat and communist groups that merged into the NSDAP. I had a pretty illuminating chart about that, but i can’t find it online. The AfD works just like this. They have a fascist wing (literally called “Flügel” = “wing”), evangelicals, nobility, conspiracy nuts, economically liberals, former SPD and Linke-politicians and voters. They are united in their refusal of migrants, but that is pretty much all they can agree on. The new district leader of Sonneberg is a member of the “Flügel” and I’m sure all of the future ones will be, too. The “Flügel” is pretty effective in bullying everyone else out of important positions or even the party.

I’m guessing “official” in the status column means that the mods over at reddit opened that community in the fediverse?

I want to add my two mycology communities and i guess i’m gonna have to declare them as unofficial, right?

Edit: Just noticed that I have no idea how to contribute on github anyways.

I just used article, seems to work :)

I don’t believe in that. We are way more deterministic than we tend to think.

It’s derived from total app downloads on android:

https://www.reddit.com/r/redditisfun/comments/144qspy/what_percentage_of_mobile_reddit_users_use_3rd/

Do what you want, the world won’t change because of your individual behaviour.

The company never said anything about closing it down, but i’m pretty sure that it will happen. The process of streamlining will make the UI impossible to work at some point, so instead of patching it to make it work they are surely going to remove it completely.

Reddit released some numbers a year ago (warning: reddit link!). So it’s another 4% of users using old.reddit (probably a huge overlap with 3PA users), but also 60% of moderators. I guess getting rid of it probably won’t hurt them a lot.

‘push button, get dopamine’

I thought so, too at first. But for every account i make somewhere I already need email confirmation and/or 2FA, so registering is far from “click button” -> “start” and seemingly the majority manages to make that work.

The only thing slightly complicated about the fediverse is the fact that there are interconnected instances with different services. But since we are in an early phase anyways, things will figure themselves out in the next months. I think it’s going to be like this: there will be communities for all kinds of stuff and all of them will get through a certain development. In a few months or even years, there might be just a single-digit number of, let’s say, football communities left, because the well-managed ones grew and attracted more users while others died down. If I want to talk about football, I can join the server with a known community without even thinking about the fediverse. But when I do, I will immediately be able to access the rest of it. Honestly, it was the same with reddit for a lot of users. A lot of people joined just for their hobby and learned about the diversity over time.

I just don’t want to see this dude anymore.

Hmm, you are right with that. Maybe the focus shouldn’t be on describing the underlying infrastructure before people join, but right after? So they have at least seen the building from inside before leaving again?

Too late for me, already deleted 99.9% of my content. My account will follow after the strike. I want to advertise some mags (do we say that? I say that) that ought to replace the subs i liked. Then i’m gone.

Fuck them. Even if the 3rd party app debacle settles, there is still so much shit going on that I wanted to leave for a few months anyways:

They’ve been trying to forcibly transform reddit to be the bazillionth social media website for years now. Avatars, being able to follow accounts, I don’t need that shit. I want a content-centric website with a discussion culture, not Instagram X.0 where the depth of a comment rarely goes beyond “yeah, that’s cool”. It’s only a matter of time until you can’t downvote anymore and they will implement some form of swiping or some other unnecessary shit function.

Their app is shit. Their new website design is shit (and will be forced on users soon 100%).

The whole NFT-avatar-embarrassment is a whole chapter on it’s own. They still try to sell that bs to people, even after all of them lost 90%+ of it’s value. The fact that this company runs a pyramid scheme as a side hustle should be reason enough to leave.

Then there is the censorship. I don’t mind censoring nazis and alike, they can go to hell. But the monkey business going on with the subs that try to help with the migration to other platforms is the epitome of stupid. As if these people never heard of the Streisand effect. These people think we are idiots, and they let us know at every opportunity.

That visualization shows exactly why the whole thing here is overwhelming for the average user. I feel that the federated aspect should be less focused on when talking about the fediverse. It makes sense to explain it, but many explanations on how to switch to lemmy/kbin/whatever put the whole federation thing on top of the list. I think this is a big turnoff for casual users/lurkers. They do not understand that they don’t need to understand the structure of the fediverse to join, enjoy content and engage with others, so they don’t even start.

I’m sure a visualization could help with that, but having a bunch of boxes and circles with arrows all over the place isn’t exactly something that will mitigate the feeling of being overloaded with information. I’m not saying you didn’t do a great job. “Arrows all over the place” is not meant to devaluate your work, on the contrary, it perfectly captures the feeling i have about the fediverse, but I would not use that image as an ad for it.