Ok, I see where you're drawing the distinction. There's a huge difference in the intention of the algorithms, and we're unlikely to see these on Lemmy.
Thanks for taking the time to re-explain.
I think there are people coming from Reddit that miss the mindless scrolling content that only hundreds of thousands of users can create.
I did this all the time on Reddit, hours and hours of lurking, looking at memes and reading bullshit stories. Just endless content.
I don't have that here, and I like it. I do miss it, but I'm not desperate for Lemmy to drop in and replace it.
What's wrong with it being a niche thing. It's been around for long enough being just that.
I'm not saying Lemmy can't be more, just there's nothing "wrong" with it as is. I jdon't like people offering up the opinions I mentioned above.
Lemmy Hot and Active literally are the algorithms being talked about, make my feed the most interesting posts, albeit less complex and malicious.
Yeah, I never get all these comments saying "if Lemmy wants to get big" it needs to do X (probably some Reddit feature), and " if Lemmy wants to succeed" if needs to do Y (some niche thing most people dont need).
Like, it's already successful doing exactly what it was intended for.
Possibly Lemmy is a lot of peoples first foray into FOSS software, and being the biggest and best, and profits go brrr isn't the aim.
Capitalism is a hell of a drug when it's all you've known.
Isn't that the problem being stated in the OP haha.
Yes, absolutely.
Some friends and I were attacked at a taxi rank on a busy high street many years ago. 3 were stabbed/slashed with a bottle and we all had a night in A&E. One has permanent face scars from it.
CCTV showed them getting into a taxi, the taxi driver was found and said they dropped them off at a petrol station.
The police had all that info and got the CCTV from the petrol station, and still couldn't/didn't identify them.
This bill needs to be killed. It's just more surveillance wrapped in saving the kids.
I've had people say to me "But what if you're partner was attacked, you would be glad that CCTV/message snooping was there" when debating these topics.
I'm not going to lie, that's hard to argue against, I would if it helped catch them, but I'd rather it didn't happen in the first place. I don't know where I'm going with this...
Yeah same. I've been here a year now, and wouldn't say I have any friends or mates. I find it much harder to get casual chit chat into interactions over Slack.
I've never really experienced this, but then I would walk in and say a general good morning/hello/how was everyones weekend to everyone in my row of desks. I try to make a point of being sociable for my own well being.
Not everyone was receptive, some just politely said it back, some we ended up having a chat. It was generally quite a sociable company though.
My new place is a different experience. I dont actually know anyone at my new place, as I work from home and have only been in to the office 3 times. I still said Hello as I sat down at a desk of strangers and I only got some meek replies...
I just think it depends on the company culture. I also think younger people tend to be more reserved though? I'm not sure.
A small one for me. I've tried so many Lemmy apps, none of them have all of the features I want, and I end up switching between them and never really settling.
I've got no idea what it is, but I'm excited to find out.