TechnoBabble

I have thought that way before.

But nowadays I have a different perspective. I've got everything I need to be happy, and that's enough for me.

You're not going to be obsessing over all your career achievements on your deathbed, you're just going to wish you had spent more time with loved ones.

Employers and romantic partners can be especially put off if they can't find any trace of you online. And if they really care, they'll dig harder to find that time where you declared bankruptcy, or you got arrested for public intoxication, or where someone deep in your past said something negative about you, and that's all that will stick in your mind when they think of you.

For me personally, having a simple, but relatively barren social media presence is worth it to avoid the persistent diggers, who will find something about you if they don't see anything public.

And besides, everything about most of us is already stored in Apple or Google's datacenters. There's no hiding from the deeply intrusive data collection those companies do. So having some simple information out in the open is likely better for privacy in some ways.

If you disagree with my take, that's fine, I just wanted to give another perspective.

Which would be pretty important if we want to keep monetization as unobtrusive as possible on Lemmy.

That said, I do think we need to figure out image hosting at some point.

Call it whatever you want, just don't leave a comment correcting someone else who also used a valid term.

u/AngryBeaverBeaver : OP, why do you even bother posting here when 90% of replies are bots?

OP : I'm sorry, but as an AI language model...

Could you even tell?

After all, we are in the era of advanced LLMs.

Refusing to hire a babysitter with a history of sexual abuse isn't "punishment for pre-crime". It's just being smart and avoiding extreme risk to your children.

In the same vein, we all know how Meta/Facebook will behave, we know they're going to do everything they can to exert total control over everything they touch. It's practically a legal requirement for them to extract maximum value from the very air we breath.

So giving them the benefit of the doubt is nothing less than reckless. It's like trusting a crack addict with your wallet.

I'm all for improving the user experience here on Lemmy.

But what I find not so appealing, is targeting mass adoption in a way that dumbs down the community we're building here.

As long as we just make Lemmy a great place to be, the right kind of people will keep joining.

Meta knows exactly what to do to bring a billion new users to a new social media site, and all you have to do is look at Threads to see the kind of community they are cultivating.

Lemmy does not, and never will, have the moderation power to contend with that many bad actors. I'm perfectly fine with Lemmy having a tiny learning curve to keep out the dregs.

I really like that idea.

It would absolutely demolish the risk of a community turning into a meme sub, or one of subs where people just post pictures of their Raspberry Pi in some retail case over and over again.

And as long as pictures are disallowed on the main post, people could still be free to post links to guides or other important content that contains pictures.

It would be nice to interact with my own family and friends

That's a straight no from me.

We can already interact with our friends and family anywhere we choose, but Lemmy is one of the only general discussion areas left on the internet that isn't full of the stupidest people on the planet.

Bringing our family here will just result in real identities taking over and limiting discussion to what's acceptable in all our little social bubbles.

That's definitely the smart way to buy laptops.

I just wanted to remind people that Framework's pricing is competitive in the segment they are targeting.

Personally I'm with you, buying a 1-2 year old premium machine can save up to 75% off the new retail price, while still getting most of the latest features.

Absolutely, and the actions that "go against the sustainability and self-interest of the fediverse" will need to be analyzed and codified into fediverse "law."

If we make specific and firm rules about what is disallowed on an instance, it makes enforcing those rules simple.