I don’t understand a lot about this conflict but surely there can be no justification for this. Those poor people

So it’s not exactly sophisticated but cucumber water. I love it, every time I go somewhere that has cucumber water I always think I’m somewhere posh (even though it costs pennies).

Cat mode?

I think there’s a time and a place for algorithmic feeds. When it comes to Facebook i personally think it makes sense to have a way of filtering the important things first, based on who you interact with. It’s a social network in the definitive sense; we care about some people more than others depending on where in the network they are. However we’ve seen how things go when Facebook use it with pages/news stories (which is really concerning).

For things like Twitter, I want chronological. It’s a real time platform based on sharing information across a larger audience. Its use in breaking news makes timing important. It’s largely gone to shit now because Musk, but in its heyday anyway.

Ideally there should always be a choice, or at least some transparency around how the algorithms work. That way everyone can choose what works for them based on how they use the platform.

While people have made some interesting comments on the downsides of megathreads, I’m glad we have a way of containing the Musk stuff. It gets a bit much.

To people who do have concerns though, if you’re tech minded maybe look at contributing to a way of improving the functionality of Lemmy. It’s in our gift to improve this place so if we can do something about it then we should, rather than passively complain when things aren’t how we want them to be.

You know you’re commenting on it now though right?

I don’t know why Musk just didn’t do it this way instead, rather than wrecking a globally recognised brand.

This will have an impact on journalists who use Twitter to get tips for reporting. Seen some who were concerned this would happen

"Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.” Terry Pratchett

I definitely agree. Descartes’ Meditations was one of the first philosophical texts I read in my undergrad degree. Great introduction to the style of writing

These sound great, definitely something I would listen to.

Just subscribed to Ethics Town which is similar to Hi Phi Nation (uses the trolley problem as a plot device/theme) but not heard any of it yet so not sure if it’s any good.

I use Habitica, really helpful when I’m having a depression relapse. I like how you collect pets by completing tasks

Not sure if they have them in the USA but I feel like things like this should be free votes rather than across party lines. It’s a conscience thing more than anything. I personally think by using them you’re just escalating things and it very well could end up causing more harm than good.

The users are having a ‘Crab day’ where everyone gives each other crabs to try and help boost the finances. Will be interesting to see if it has an impact

More folk than you’d think! We had an influx of Reddit folk recently (wasn’t expecting them to be embraced as much as they have been, nice to see)

The main thing I was concerned about is then getting rid of the reverse chronological sorting and they’ve backtracked on that, so hopefully it won’t be completely awful. It did just seem like a weird business memo that the staff were told to put on Tumblr rather than anything user-friendly. Just sounded way too corporate.

I like the idea and I know that’s how some people are using Lemmy at the moment. I think it would need to be very easy to implement though for it to be truly viable.

I love the name ‘earthlings’! Glad you’re keeping the alienfolk on side just in case

That’s a good point. Plus they won’t be as embedded in the new place as they won’t have 10+ years of history on it. So moving becomes easier generally

Definitely with you there on Jane Austen. I like that ultimately everyone gets married and is happy (even if that’s not my idea of a happy ending necessarily)

The latest Jerboa update does seem to have fixed that fyi