Comment on Lemmy feels less anonymous than Reddit, because there are less users and its easier to be remembered. Similar to a small town where everyone knows each other.

oppy1984@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• Gismonda@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Agreed…Lemmy slightly reminds me of the early days of Internet forums/chatrooms/etc.

  Yes, I’m old.

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  • oppy1984@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Yep. Also I’m old too, I remember when AIM was going to kill IRC.

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• MusicSoulEdu@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Definitely found that to be the case so far! Posted the same question to reddit and it was crickets there.

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  • oppy1984@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The reddit A.I. doesn’t know how to respond.

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• LanguageIsCool@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  In game theory, a repeated prisoner’s dilemma can become a stag hunt if the probability of future interaction is high enough. Which is essentially what you’re saying.

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  • oppy1984@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I’m familiar with the prisoners dilemma but not the stag hunt aspect, I’ll have to take your word for it until I have time to read up on that.

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    • LanguageIsCool@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Prisoner’s dilemmas are interesting because cooperation is socially optimal but not sustained by a Nash equilibrium. Cooperation is fragile. It’s a little “doom and gloom.” Are social species destined to be individualistic selfish assholes?

      Under certain conditions, a repeated prisoner’s dilemma becomes a stag hunt. Stag hunts are interesting because cooperation is, in fact, sustained by a Nash equilibrium. But it’s not for free: there’s also a suboptimal Nash equilibrium that could be hard to get out of.

      But the moral is that there’s incentive to not be an asshole if there’s a high probability of future encounters.

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