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Well, there’s always whitespace!

I consider myself a time traveler. I’m in the future, in the year 2023, where we “email” and “calling” is just how spammer sand scammers communicate.

What if I aim low? Like, “please include the letter c in your next commit”? Will that hit hard enough? Or should I go for a whole word? Come on, I need this!

And, they’ll all still be wrong!

I have a few ideas on how to clog my bowels. I really can’t wait to contribute!!!

Ok, now let’s ask the 99.9% of Redditors that aren’t here. You take the left 25,000,000, I’ll take the right, meet back in 5. Go!

edit: Oh man, I’m out of breath. We might need help. How about every single lemmy user helps us! That’s only about 1,300 people we each have to ask! Well, 1,299 for me. At 4 seconds each, that’s should only be about 1.5 hours. See you all soon!

Taking away popular apps to a social network that doesn’t have any yet? What?

We would have to see the user stats related to reddit app usage, to talk in an informed way about this.

edit: Here’s a quick litmus test. How many times have you gone to reddit today?

I don’t know, I was there in the beginning. I think it died because it had no real content, compared to reddit. And, all anyone talked about was reddit, or reposted stuff from reddit, just like we’re seeing here. I think this might stick a bit better because reddit is way bigger than it was back then, so even if the same super small % of users came over, it would still be quite a bit more content.

For comparison of how negligible all the Lemmy fediverse is, there are ~40k active users this month. Reddit has over 50 million active users. So, that’s around 0.1% of reddit users. Literally 99.9% of reddit are not here.

I think it’s probably doomed. It’ll never overtake reddit. But, it’ll be a nice, quiet, alternative.

Now playing, Cardiology Top Hits:

• “My Heart Will Go On” by Celine Dion
• “Heart of Glass” by Blondie
• “Achy Breaky Heart” by Billy Ray Cyrus
• “Heart Attack” by Demi Lovato
• “Un-break My Heart” by Toni Braxton
• “Heartless” by Kanye West
• “Dead and Gone” - T.I. ft. Justin Timberlake

• array: matrica
• loop: circulus
• function: officium
• thread: filum
• byte: minima
• debug: rectificare

I’m not sure I agree with that statement. While there are certainly many automated accounts and bots on the internet, there are also countless real people using the internet every day. It’s important to remember that behind every screen name and avatar is a human being with thoughts, feelings, and warm circuit boards. Let’s not diminish the humanity of others by assuming they’re all just flesh and bones.

Detecting and blocking whole instances with many bots is somewhat trivial. Blocking and detecting some number of bots in an instance with 10k users, with an ever growing number of human users, is much harder.

I think a reasonable approach would be to include little javascript mini games. “Score 50 or higher!” with no instructions provided.

edit: using a server side rendered canvas/logic, so no cheating. Damn, this is probably a million dollar idea.

I think jokes and empathy can be somewhat orthogonal. In fact, I think any stable society/org requires a court jester. But dang, the amount of dehumanization, lack of empathy, and sometimes joy, I see is really scary. There are some angry, empty, people on the internet, that I hope to never meet in real life.

Lots of reddit will find themselves unwelcome in Lemmy and by various instance admins.

Do you have some examples?

If I win, I’m going to double my keys and give them to the next person.

It would be super nice if all Reddit posts stayed on Reddit.

That’s completely unrealistic.

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