Welcome to the fediverse. Screw corporate social media.

I’m 40, I was there for the fake Kurt Cobain in an ambulance.

That’s fucking sad. That alone should be enough to push people toward the Fediverse. Man, how lucky was I to grow up on a truly free internet?

It definitely does.

Do you believe in aliens?

LLM sings a goofy Reddit thread song from 20 years ago.

“I believe in aliens, you sexy thang.”

I’m right there with you. I haaaaaate the direction of modern gaming.

Man. I miss when gungame was filled with people and all the fun addons. Warcraft 3 mods, vote for knife fight, “gotcha bitch” with every knife kill.

I want to go back.

Holy shit, this.

I’m constantly worried that what I’m seeing/hearing is fake. It’s going to get harder and harder to find older information on the internet too.

Shit, it’s crept outside of the internet actually. Family buys my kids books for Christmas and birthdays and I’m checking to make sure they aren’t AI garbage before I ever let them look at it because someone bought them an AI book already without realizing it.

I don’t really understand what we hope to get from all of this. I mean, not really. Maybe if it gets to a point where it can truly be trusted, I just don’t see how.

I finally got brave enough to do it. Between August and January I had made over 800%.

Trump has ruined that for me. Oh well.

You came at the right time. When I left during the API nightmare and removal of third party apps, Lemmy was like walking into a desert wasteland and praying it loaded up and you weren’t just standing there in the void.

When it did load, where sand should be in the wasteland, it was beans. Slimy, canned beans as far as the eye could see.

You’ve entered during the golden age if you ask me. I don’t even think about Reddit anymore.

Oh man, I absolutely love breasts. Too much, really. :p

I definitely don’t get foot love at all. I have always always always despised feet.

Now, when I’m worked up, you know? There isn’t a part of the body I don’t like at least a little bit haha.

Taranteentoe? Who dat?

I feel dirty for typing that haha. I love Quinten Tarantino’s movies so much.

He has said it is his favorite word.

I can’t speak for other people, but if lemmy.world were to shut down today I’d just pick another server.

I will admit, it was confusing and almost turned me off at first. I was very upset about the whole deal with third party apps on Reddit. My daughter gave me the whole email analogy and it cleared my hesitation to join Lemmy.

I don’t know how it is today, but I had to apply to join world when I first got on. It would be awesome if an app would sign a person up for, say, three different servers and sync settings between them. Something goes down, wouldn’t even notice.

Assholes ruin everything though and making it easier for bot accounts to exist would end badly.

I don’t know.

When I first got on here it was a mess. It didn’t work half the time and when it did no content was being generated. I stuck it out though and I’m glad I did.

I’m definitely not the right person to come up with any solutions.

Man. You just gave me an idea (which would matter if I wasn’t a complete idiot).

Instead of servers that all attempt to be a sort of clone of Reddit, servers could focus on content similar to the way subreddits work.

So you’d join any one of these servers and federate with other servers just like now, only content would be focused between servers.

Example:

This server is a games server. It has /c/games, /c/fallout, /c/vintagegaming, etc.

This server will focus on news and politics. It has /c/worldnews, /c/marketnews, etc.

Sure, it would still have the issue of being fractured, but it would narrow it down so much that it would be more appealing and easier to navigate.

It’s probably too late for that.

Ultimately, I’m happy with the fediverse. Algorithms aren’t dictating what I see. There’s no profit incentive that will lead to bad decisions, so when bad decisions are made, folks will talk about it and come to a solution.

I miss old Reddit, but it’s gone.

I’ll shit on your shit and they can eat my shit too.

It was ripped directly from my cd at 320kbps and played on an iPod 5th generation (iPod video).

Not OP, but I promise you that I can hear what sounds like digital water being thrown over the cymbals when listening to mp3 files below 320 kbps. Even then, every now and then I hear that sound here and there across whatever record I’m listening to.

I don’t experience it when listening to records, CDs, or cassettes.

My hearing used to be very sensitive. When the whole world was using CRTs, I could tell you who had their tv on just standing outside their house.

I thought it didn’t sound any different to me too. That is until me and a friend were riding around listening to Icky Thump by The White Stripes for a few weeks when it first came out.

Higher bitrate, ripped directly from the CD, pretty decent car radio.

We had been listening to my copy, he didn’t own it yet.

We stopped at a record store one day when we were out and he picked up his copy. He wanted to play the CD for whatever reason, and when he stuck the disc in, “berderwiddledod dahta dah BOOM BOOM BOOM”.

I couldn’t believe it. It was like the record just sucked the power out of us both and used it to burst through the speakers.

The mp3, by comparison, sounded shrunk down from the source and splashed with water.

It didn’t change my listening habits because of convenience, but damn. It was an eye opener.