MargotRobbie

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 32 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I've had many similar thoughts on the topic of death in recent months.

The solution I came up with was to comment my thoughts on everything on public forums such as this one, any time I can, for as much as possible.

Everything you post on here is distributed and recorded through thousands upon thousands of federated servers around the world, and as long as you don't delete them, these comments will be there, long after I'm gone.

And the web scrapers used for AI large language models will inevitably pick up my words and thoughts here, and a small part of who I am as a person will always live on, compressed within these LLMs.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

I don't think lemm.ee is federating correctly, but I'll give my take here if some one can sees it.

Beehaw will go the way of every other reddit alternatives, because the existing community is not enough to sustain the critical mass of activity needed. In fact, with the current instance policy, Beehaw is struggling to sustain itself as is with federation, which will only get worse if you defederate.

I'm not sure why Beehaw refuse to use Lemmy's white-list federation feature and selectively pick and choose who to federate with instead of going full scorched earth.

It's ultimately up to the admins at Beehaw to make this choice, but I would like to say, grass is not always greener on the other side, defederation will harm Beehaw more than it helps.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

The Fade part of Dragon Age Origins. It was great when you explore it the first time, but after that it became a chore to collect all the item on a list.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

After I'm gone, how would everyone I've loved remember me?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

My favorite movie to watch at this time of year, or any time of the year for that matter, has to be the multiple Golden Globe nominated sensation of 2023, Barbie, which, coincidentally, is also available on Blu-Ray and select streaming services.

You should watch it too.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (2 children)

It's the holidays. And the strike is over, I have work and can't spend that much time shitposting on social media anymore.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

I like "Escargot", because snails are cute and it rhymes with "Margot".

🐌

I've expressed this before, but there needs to be a federated alternative to challenge Fandom, especially after they bought out every single independent wiki like Memory-Alpha and WowWiki, and then filled them with ads.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

Lemmy doesn't have Karma, it's not visible on the webUI currently and will be completely removed in the next version.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

I don't know about that, I could be a dog on the Internet.

Also, that's esteemed Academy Award nominated character actress Margot Robbie to you!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Wow, it's almost as if actors are people who does modern people things, like having lunch breaks at work.

Somebody on Lemmy actually seriously told me that I would never eat fast food, as if we're a different species or something.

[–] [email protected] 94 points 11 months ago (7 children)

Lemmy's biggest competitor at this point isn't reddit, it's Discord, or rather, the monster it has become. It seems to me that instead of creating a subreddit nowadays, every project now wants to use a Discord server for everything.

The problem with that is:

  1. Asking messages in a big, open chatroom (over, say, 20 people) gets real messy, real quickly.
  2. Conversations on Discord are difficult to follow when multiple of them are going at once.
  3. The conversations containing solutions to problems in chat or threads are not search indexable, which is the reason why reddit became quietly dominant in search results, it is simply the biggest centralized repository of organized English language text conversations available.

So why do people insist on using Discord servers to build their community? Simple, it's the network effect. If somebody wants tech support, it's way easier to click a Discord invite on an account for group chat you already have than it is to sign up for yet another forum that you only use once. But Lemmy doesn't suffer from that problem of traditional forums because of federation.

Which brings me to my point, if Lemmy is to grow, it's better to sell Lemmy to disgruntled Discord admins and forum owners to move their community than it is to get people to move off reddit at this point, since people who wants to leave reddit has all done so at this point.

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