CoffeeBlood91

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean his from Africa, I wouldnt believe if his ancestors owned a couple plantations down there which ended up becoming what funded Musk in the first place. There's a lot of dirty money in the pockets of billionaires.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

They should make an instance, it would help the general public discover the fediverse. Most people I talk to at the bar don't know about the fediverse, I've explained it so many times, some people show interest, some people don't see the point, or how it's a big deal. I probably just come off as a total geek.

Once meta opens up a channel to the fediverse, people will start to stumble upon the different instances, decide they are done with meta, and move on from meta.

There are some billionaires out there who are watching whats happening, they are noticing the patterns, the trends, what people want, and what people dont want.

All it takes is one clever billionaire, who realizes they have enough money to create the next best platform and be able to fund it by other means.

We are at the point where bots can generate ad revenue, so if we just abandon the old websites to bots, they become bot-towns that generate revenue, and that revenue goes towards funding ad free servers in the fediverse.

This may be what just happens.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If YouTube requires people to use adblockers that will be the start of another big platorm. The only thing is, is that many of these big YouTube channels get paid off and revenue, so they have no desire to move over to a different platform.

I think what we need to see is a humble platform, where there is no hunger for money, just the passion of putting out passionate content. Maybe even have a tip feature, so people can tip, but no ads.

Same goes with Facebook I'd love to see friendica or a new social media platform boom that is on the same vein, or better yet connects to different fediverse instances.

People need to all agree by the masses, that facebook is garbage, uninstall the app, and learn the ropes of a new platform.

Because of a generation gap, it would likely divide the older generation from the younger generation, as the older generation will be stuck feeding into Facebook. You would be surprised how many of them still watch TV.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

It should have died years ago. So glad people by the masses have realized enough is enough.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's become a divide.

Pirates are more likely to end up on Lemmy, while streamers are more likely to remain on Reddit.

What I am saying is there are people who don't care and will give their money and attention to easy to learn, and easy to consume services.

While the other people refuse to feed into corporate greed, and seek frugal affairs which require a little more time and patience.

Unfornately as I have been witnessing there are so many people who continue to use Reddit, and will always use Reddit. These are the people who probably started using Reddit within the past 5 years, and were unaware of third party apps.

The only Reddit they know is new Reddit, and Reddit through the app. Often these people will happily pay a monthly fee for no ads and premium features.

The long term users are the ones that have seen it through its stages, we remember when the upvotes and downvotes were accurate, and were instantly visible, we remember when there were less rules for posting, less bots, and accurate karma points on posts.

Now it's all rigged, and AI driven.

The people who see through it, and want to get their voice back, and a sense of genuine community are the ones that end up on here.

Anyone who still continues to use Reddit I have less respect for, especially if they are aware of the alternatives.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not Dark Souls

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's pretty easy to do, especially on the steamdeck

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I noticed this yesterday as well. Made a post from lemmy.ca to lemmy.world I saw on lemmy.ca my post had about 100 upvotes and a bunch of comments.

Hopped into kbin because everyone kept raving about it, so my post with like 160 upvotes and way more comments.

Kept hopping back and forth between instances trying to reply to comments that would only appear on Kbin.

So I created an account on Kbin with the same username so I could reply to comments that didn't appear on lemmy.ca.

Kbin.social is definitely the most polished instance right now.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wrote it, there may be some spelling mistakes in the post, if you look carefully. My writing skills are far from perfect, atleast I think so. If you truly believe my post was written by an AI I am flattered

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

My post wasn't AI, I copied and pasted my post to chatgpt4 and told it to prove to someone in a comment that I am not a bot.

Just to demonstrate what some average joe can do.

Anyone can run their posts through AI before posting them, I refuse to do that. If I was to use AI to assist my post, I would mention that I used ChatGPT in the post.

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