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[–] New_account 16 points 1 year ago

As for the ages here, the people most likely to migrate are the long term Reddit users that have had an account using third party apps since 2010 or so (because younger people have only ever known the official app). That self selects for anyone that was old enough to use Reddit in 2010 back when the user base was mostly high school / college / recent college grads. Someone in their late teens / early 20s back then will be in their 30s now.

[–] New_account 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Stress is relative to your own personal conditions. It's not absolute. A tech executive might have a nice house and financial security, but if he's working 80 hours/week under intense pressure to meet some deadline, that's still stressful. Nobody wants to be perceived as a failure at work, even if their personal financial consequences for failure are minimal.

Your argument seems to imply it's impossible to feel stress if you're comfortable in life. Even the poorest Americans can count on access to food, clean running water, electricity, internet, etc. For most of humanity's existence, and still today in some parts of the world, these would be considered enormous luxuries, so anyone with access to them would be seen as extremely comfortable in life. Clearly though, people can still be stressed out despite having access to these sorts of things that most of history would consider luxurious.

Stress is relative, not absolute.

[–] New_account 7 points 1 year ago

The play to earn model is literally a ponzi scheme with a fancier name. The money you earn has to come from somewhere. It doesn't appear out of thin air. In 100% of P2E games, the earliest players get paid by the revenue from later players. Eventually, the game stops growing, so the later players are left holding the bag.

Obviously, some people make a lot of money in ponzi schemes (most notably, the people that start the ponzi scheme in the first place), but it's a terrible design for people that aren't the ponzi creators or the first adopters lucky enough to get in on the ground floor.

[–] New_account 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Defederation works against that though. When I first joined a few weeks ago, a lot of the discussion was taking place on Beehaw. I joined a few communities over there and started to enjoy the experience but in an instant, all of that was blocked because Beehaw decided to defederate from Lemmy.World (and others). That sort of thing will happen more and more in the future. I don't want to have to create a dozen different accounts on a dozen different instances to view the content I want to see: I want a simple interface with everything in one spot.

Reddit offers the "everything in one spot" piece, but they killed the simple interface possible via apps like RIF and replaced it with an abysmal official app.

Lemmy offers the "simple interface" piece with apps like Jerboa, but the federation aspect of it makes it hard to get everything in one spot.

The second a competitor offers both features with a large enough community to allow for meaningful discussion, I'd be happy to make the switch.

[–] New_account 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Looks like the markets are pretty apathetic to the news today. Economists had expected 225K jobs added, so the 209K is a little below expectations, but not a huge miss. Unemployment remains at a very healthy 3.6% mirroring the pre-pandemic landscape with one of the lowest rates in decades.

I wonder how much of this low unemployment is demographic. Aside from the pandemic, the last decade has been marked by increasing Baby Boomer retirements (in 2023, the youngest Boomers turn 59, and the oldest are 77). While that large cohort is leaving the workplace, the cohorts behind it are smaller (in relative terms, not absolute terms), so there are more roles to fill with fewer people to fill them. That allows employees to be choosier when looking for jobs, which has been great for the average worker.

[–] New_account 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

So far, yes, but I don't really have any allegiances to this site and will jump ship to a competitor in a heartbeat if something better comes along. I know some people like the decentralized federation approach here, but I actually see that as the biggest downside to using this site. The value proposition of Reddit in its heyday was that it offered a single landing point for all sorts of discussions that used to be scattered across hundreds of different forums. The decentralized federation approach moves away from that, and while that offers some advantages, it also comes with a lot of disadvantages too.

[–] New_account 12 points 1 year ago

It might feel like forever in internet time, but it's only been two and a half weeks since the thing imploded and two weeks since the rescue operation was called off after finding debris from the Titan. Two weeks is lightning fast for a company to formally shut down in response to something like this, especially when you consider that the company's employees have been grieving the death of their CEO/friend during all of this.

[–] New_account -4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

The Titanic fanously sank on its maiden voyage, so that's a little different. The Titan submersible was successful for hundreds of dives before the implosion, which I'm sure gave the team a false sense of security and ultimately led them to ignore all the red flags.

[–] New_account 12 points 1 year ago

Why? You should let each post stand on it's own merit.

First, account age is silly for Lemmy, as almost 100% of people on here will have an account creation date in June 2023 or later because this place was a ghost town before Reddit decided to kill the APIs. A month from now, is someone with an August 2023 join date automatically presumed to be a troll, or are they just someone making the switch from Reddit a month later than everyone else?

As for karma, neither negative karma nor positive karma really tell you anything about the poster:

For instance, people can make good faith arguments advocating for conservative political opinions, but because the user base skews pretty far left here, those arguments will be downvoted. A discussion forum that bans opposing viewpoints is useless, and the echo chambers on Reddit are something I'd love to avoid here.

Similarly, it's also possible to effortlessly build positive karma. Simply copy/paste highly rated comments from the last time a common repost appeared on the feed, and chances are, your copy/pasted comments will get upvoted too. You can even automate it with a bot.

Karma meant nothing at Reddit, and moderators shouldn't be using it for decisionmaking purposes. It's useful for ranking posts and comments, but anything beyond that isn't helpful.

[–] New_account 2 points 1 year ago

In what context?

In the insurance world, you sometimes see the phrase "L+ALAE Ratio" to refer to the ratio of (losses + expenses) divided by premium. It's a way to measure profitability for a book of insurance business: how many dollars of loss and expense do you have to pay per dollar of premium earned? Lower is better, and you don't want that ratio too much higher than 100%, because that means premiums aren't high enough to cover losses (though investment income can sustain small underwriting losses).

I could see "L+" used as shorthand for "L+ALAE" or "L+ALAE+ULAE," though admittedly, I've never seen that specific shorthand used.

[–] New_account 10 points 1 year ago

Doubt it. It's just dumb low effort posting over here trying to force inside jokes on Lemmy. I blocked all of that sort of stuff back in the day on Reddit, and I blocked it here too.

[–] New_account 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I almost exclusively read non-fiction, but I just got done reading Slash's autobiography (the guitarist for Guns N' Roses among other projects), and that book kept me absolutely hooked from start to end. I have no idea how he's still alive after the wild stuff described in that book. Highly recommend this one if you have any interest in rock music.

I shifted from that to a book about the history of the US Postal Service last week, so it's a pretty big contrast in tone.

 

Right now, the best post sorting is Top Day, but that gives a pretty static feed if you check multiple times per day. On the web version, it looks like Top Hour and Top 6 Hours are options too, which would presumably give a bit more variety in the feed. Can these be added to Jerboa?

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by New_account to c/playstationtrophies
 

I'm hoping this can be the replacement for /r/trophies? If so, I'd love to start contributing here. Maybe we can get a discussion going to try to build the community? I haven't earned any platinums recently, but I have earned a few bronze/silver/gold trophies in a bunch of different games, and I'm betting a lot of others have too. To that end, over the last month or so, what have been your favorite non-platinum trophies, and why? Try to avoid posting spoilers for story-based trophies, but other than that, let me hear your favorites!

 

Any way this can be fixed in a future release? I've only done a little bit of coding in the past, but this sounds like an index matching error with a hopefully quick fix (i.e., specifying "TopDay" is supposed to return the Xth item in a list, but it's returning the X+1th item instead, hence the sort by old). As a result, Jerboa always shows me posts from four years ago when I open the app.

 

The June PS+ Essential games came out last week, but with Reddit dying/dead, I'd like to start a community for this here, hence the late post. Have any of you guys checked out the games yet? Initial thoughts on any of the titles? Worth checking any of these out, or is this a month to play other games?

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submitted 1 year ago by New_account to c/baseball
 

Not sure if I'm doing this correctly, but I just created an account earlier today moving away from Reddit and onto Lemmy. The Reddit baseball community was one of the best places on the site full of interesting discussion, a bunch of dumb jokes, and a generally happy userbase that doesn't take the game too seriously (salty people that can't handle a loss are a big problem with a lot of the other online forums discussing baseball). With RIF's impending shutdown, I'm interested in a non-Reddit alternative. Hopefully, Lemmy is it? Are there any other baseball fans on this site yet? I searched "baseball" and found this empty community (kind of like a subreddit?), but I have no idea if this is the "real" baseball group or not.

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