this post was submitted on 29 Jul 2023
262 points (90.2% liked)

Fediverse

17795 readers
30 users here now

A community dedicated to fediverse news and discussion.

Fediverse is a portmanteau of "federation" and "universe".

Getting started on Fediverse;

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How the flying spaghetti meatball monster fuck is this relevant to your rant over how you were getting sidelined on GitHub?

Do you even know who Neil Postman is, is that why you think nothing is relevant to how Lemmy is run? That would explain why you think it isn't relevant, because you never heard of Neil Postman. He did die decades back, so it wouldn't surprise me. It must be easier for you to jsut give flippant replies "how the flying fukc" instead of actually learning or reading a book from Neil Postman.

"Fork it", "wtf", you like simplistic answers to difficult problems. Clearly you would not spend hundreds of hours testing fLemmy and watching the developers before posting something like I did this past few days. It's really sad to see your total faith and blind faith in action.

I can see why you might have never read something from Neil Postman and responded as if it was off-topic to social media applications and their cultures.

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

Neil Postman

No, why should I know who he is? How is he relevant to how Lemmy is run? How are my replies relevant to whatever Neil Postman wrote? Can you elaborate?

“Fork it”, “wtf”, you like simplistic answers to difficult problems. Clearly you would not spend hundreds of hours testing fLemmy and watching the developers before posting something like I did this past few days. It’s really sad to see your total faith and blind faith in action.

Well, your efforts clearly did not achieve your desired results, so forking the project, and starting your own Lemmy-alternative seems like the logical next step no?

I can see why you might have never read something from Neil Postman and responded as if it was off-topic to social media applications and their cultures.

Again, why do you keep bringing up American authors?

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

Again, why do you keep bringing up American authors?

For one, I'm in the USA. And you must think Marshall McLuhan is from the USA? He is not.

Marshall McLuhan identified the USA as the world leader in media long ago, and I think his analysis was correct. I don't think it has changed that much in 2023, USA still leads a lot of media types.

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

No, why should I know who he is? How is he relevant to how Lemmy is run?

On the Internet, you can search. Instead, you go all "WTF" ranting.

so forking the project, and starting your own Lemmy-alternative seems like the logical next step no?

No, it isn't logical at all. People have set up Lemmy instances to 'fork" Reddit, and nobody comes. Why set up one more social media site nobody will use because audiences actually seek out what is popular. You seem to think code is all that matters, that quality actually attracts audiences. I suggest teachers like Neil Postman, they really spell this all out. The audience has to develop self-awareness of their compulsive media behaviors. Huxley was far more right than Orwell.

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

On the Internet, you can search. Instead, you go all “WTF” ranting.

You're the one that brought it up, you can't even be bothered to explain why?

No, it isn’t logical at all. People have set up Lemmy instances to 'fork" Reddit, and nobody comes. Why set up one more social media site nobody will use because audiences actually seek out what is popular. You seem to think code is all that matters, that quality actually attracts audiences. I suggest teachers like Neil Postman, they really spell this all out. The audience has to develop self-awareness of their compulsive media behaviors. Huxley was far more right than Orwell.

If your fork maintains the ActivityPub protocol, what's the issue? Again you keep bringing up more authors without explaining your reasons for doing so. Do you lack the capability to think for yourself, so you have to idolize authors that have long since passed?

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

Your entire response seems like "fork it", without anything in advance of that.

  1. Study the project leaders of lemmy, which I have done for hundreds of hours now. Analyze and learn, not JUMP TO "fork it".

  2. Criticize with critical thinking what they are doing. And contribute. Which I have also done. They clearly need to stop letting their anxeity of PostgreSQL be central to the project. There are tutorials on YouTube for example that can be shared. Or Lemmy communities.

It's odd, do you go around telling everyone who criticizes Elon Musk to "fork it" about Twitter instead of actual;y sharing discussion about the problems. You seem to show cult-like loyalty to Lemmy and intend to run-off factual criticism. I've seen people behave that way towards Elon Musk too.