DandomRude
@DandomRude@lemmy.world
- Comment on What's the capital of France? 1 week ago:
Not in the robro revolution tho
- Comment on oahsa rocks guys 3 weeks ago:
Didn’t even have to check the link to know what it was. Classics.
- Comment on Trump cosplaying 4 weeks ago:
Back in 2017, I didn’t understand how an extremely wealthy heir to a billion-dollar fortune (and regardless of all his business failures) could present himself as the candidate of the little people. Today, after Trump was president and - of course - only made policy changes for the rich, I understand it even less. What is this photo-op all about? Are there seriously still people who don’t understand that Trump has never represented the middle class - or even the working class? You can’t be serious, dear US citizens.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
I know. I did not downvote and I really don’t get why people feel the need to. Your comment is completely accurate - it makes no sense to impute any intentions to these people in disguise. My only point was that the people in the photo should not appear like that for the election in any case.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Be that as it may, people wearing masks or costumes have no place in a polling station.
- Comment on Never forget. 1 month ago:
Wut?
- Comment on Music was better when ugly people were allowed to make it 1 month ago:
Well, in that regard not too much changed, I think. Record labels always mostly pushed music and artists with mass appeal. They still do but have lost a lot of their power to companies like spotify and Google (YouTube). But these players do pretty much the same with their algorithms. So I don’t think that popular music has changed too much. There are still influential companies that can pretty much dictate what people listen to. I still don’t think it has become much worse, since back in the day you weren’t even able to produce an album without a record deal since studio time and all that was so expensive. Today you can produce everything yourself in your bedroom. Sure, it’s unlikely that you will be very successful marketing your record - but at least it’s somewhat possible.
- Comment on Music was better when ugly people were allowed to make it 1 month ago:
I don’t think music has gotten any worse. However, it is much easier and cheaper to produce music today: you don’t have to be able to play an instrument and professional production is possible with comparatively inexpensive software on any standard computer. This and also the changes in distribution (no more need for sound carriers, …) have probably led to a lot more music being produced today than in the past. Of course, this does not mean that music has become better as a result, but it also does not mean that it has become worse. You just have to find the gems among the admittedly gigantic amount of junk.
- Comment on After a year of operation, Switzerland's government closes its Mastodon instance 1 month ago:
I think the so-called KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) are a major problem of our time, because they are often defined incorrectly or misunderstood. All too often, decision-makers seem to think that the pure number of followers, for example, or engagement metrics such as likes would indicate that an account or post is successful. However, this is often not the case when other important metrics are taken into account. In e-commerce, for example, a large number of followers or high engagement figures in themselves mean nothing at all: it is not uncommon for e-commerce companies to invest a lot of money in social media management and for the KPIs of their accounts to rise accordingly - but still not sell anything via this channel (that means that the investment is not worth it, of course, because the costs are disproportionate to the sales generated; the ROI not good at all). I think a similar situation can be assumed for many science accounts on Mastodon, for example. Although the number of followers maybe not very high here because there are less active useres, the quality of comments can still be a lot higher. But unfortunately this cannot be quantified, or at least not easily. I therefore think that everyone should first think about what they want to achieve with their social media accounts. It then makes sense to define suitable KPIs instead of being impressed by what can be considered an indicator of success elsewhere and in a completely different context.
- Comment on If tomorrow it was announced that aliens were real, highly intelligent, and in communication with our governments, no one would be talking about it by Halloween 1 month ago:
It depends, I would say. If the aliens ask unpleasant questions, they would probably be talked about and reported on continuously. Like:
Alien Ambassador: “Why are you destroying your habitat with your eyes open? We don’t understand. Your scientists have proven beyond doubt that you will become extinct if you don’t fundamentally change your ways. Why don’t you care at all?”
Continuous headlines:
“Aliens want to ban humanity from traveling”
“Aliens want to raise gas prices”
“Go home job-stealing aliens: How outer world wokeness is destroying {any given country}”
…
- Comment on Hammerheads sharkz 1 month ago:
Once in a while you just need to…stop…hammer time!
- Comment on I'm so sorry 2 months ago:
It’s what AI makes of her, I guess.
- Comment on I'm so sorry 2 months ago:
That bothers me way less than seeing a single Trump tbh.
- Comment on More and more German trains are not allowed to enter Switzerland 3 months ago:
I’m not sure if this also applies to local transport, but that is also very reliable in Switzerland; at least from my experience. I spent three years in Switzerland and the only time a bus was more than two minutes late was because a construction crane had fallen over and was lying on the road - a reason that is completely understandable. The bus driver was devastated and apologized at every stop.
- Comment on Some subreddits could be paywalled, hints Reddit CEO 3 months ago:
Sure, 1$ for 5.000 high quality posts - but only if it is content that you would otherwise only find in scientific journals; no AI stuff, of course.
- Comment on Some subreddits could be paywalled, hints Reddit CEO 3 months ago:
This is a terrible idea for a site that relies solely on user-generated content. It’s not like Twitter hasn’t tried this before - didn’t work out so well, I guess.
- Comment on Watching videos of people screaming "shooter on the roof" at law enforcement 4 months ago:
Damn, you are indeed not joking. I had to double-check because it’s so ridiculous.
- Comment on Watching videos of people screaming "shooter on the roof" at law enforcement 4 months ago:
Yup, would have been easy to just nuke the guy as well.
- Comment on Watching videos of people screaming "shooter on the roof" at law enforcement 4 months ago:
The NRA and the like will probably use this again as an opportunity to demand even more and even bigger weapons for the police, the Secret Service and everyone else. Not that it will do any good, but they’ll try anyway, I suppose.
- Comment on Justice system in America 6 months ago:
The Internet’s own boy. RIP - he would have hated what they did to reddit.
- Comment on Is there a more politically and ideologically diverse alternative for Lemmy? 7 months ago:
Yes, that’s probably true. For me, however, neutrality presupposes diversity - at least to a certain degree. As in the maxim of quality journalism: the assumption here is that a journalist can never be truly objective. This is why an attempt is made to allow opposing perspectives on a topic to have their say, so that the reader or viewer can form their own opinion.
Of course, this principle does not work in an environment in which differing opinions or perspectives are generally unwelcome. This is probably the case with Lemmy and other Fediverse applications for some topics. But I think that this doesn’t just apply to the Fediverse, but to social media in general. It seems to me just as you say: if you only encounter rejection on a platform, in a community or on an instance if you disagree with the majority, you will move elsewhere - which in turn will probably lead to you eventually finding yourself in an environment where the majority of others are of the same opinion.
Of course, it would be highly desirable if people were more open-minded, but I’m afraid that’s a utopia. In any case, I don’t have the impression that the advent of social media has fundamentally brought open exchange forward.
On the contrary, I have the impression that political discourse in many countries, for example, is now characterized by the very strategies that make social media posts successful: the abbreviated presentation of complex contexts, the invocation of enemy images, sometimes even straight-up trolling. But perhaps this is just a perception error on my part.
- Comment on Is there a more politically and ideologically diverse alternative for Lemmy? 7 months ago:
I’m not sure whether there can be an ideologically neutral social media platform at all. I think there will always be a significant proportion of users who are not interested in discussion, arguments and open minded exchange, but rather in seeing their world view confirmed by others or simply being part of a perceived in-group.
What’s more, the sheer mass of content makes an attention economy necessary so that one can deal with this flood of information. In my opinion, the content that is easy to consume will always prevail over content that looks at a topic in all its complexity (hardly anyone is willing/has the time to read up on it). So it’s often not about who has the better arguments or actually knows something about a topic, but about who sells their posts better. In this sense, it seems to me that social media in general is not really social, but to a large extent a competition for attention.
I am not aware of any platform that could solve these problems. In my opinion, this is not really the aim, as pretty much all platforms are not really about objective information, but rather about passing the time and entertainment. Of course, that doesn’t mean that you can’t find good discussions and serious information. But I think that this kind of content will never be the main focus of any social media plattform. The fediverse approach seems like a good try to me tho, because there can be “special interest instances” that can make their own rules to focus on whatever they are about.
- Comment on Trump reportedly asked Musk to buy Truth Social last year 8 months ago:
Musk has already turned Twitter into Truth Social anyway. So no need.
- Comment on Sweeping EU rules for tech giants take effect today. Here’s what’s changing | CNN Business 8 months ago:
It would certainly be a technical challenge. But I think the utility would be very high. In my experience, it’s difficult to convince people to use an app like Signal if they can’t use it to communicate with their Whatsapp contacts (etc.).
- Comment on Sweeping EU rules for tech giants take effect today. Here’s what’s changing | CNN Business 8 months ago:
Yes, sure, but why not simply point out that the communication between Signal and Whatsapp, for example, is not sufficiently encrypted? If someone doesn’t use Signal or Theema, you can only communicate with this person anyway if you use the corresponding app. That’s not any more secure. I just think that Signal & Co. could gain a lot of users if they also allowed (insecure) communication with other messengers. Encryption between users who both use Signal, for example, is not affected by this.
- Comment on Sweeping EU rules for tech giants take effect today. Here’s what’s changing | CNN Business 8 months ago:
I still don’t get why.
- Comment on These are trying times 8 months ago:
“According to the brands website” might be an important hint, tho. I mean Trump and his minions are not exactly known for making correct statements.
- Comment on When it’s Saturday and there’s no new content on lemmy 8 months ago:
Very helpful, thx. I might just reconsider.
- Comment on Offspring 9 months ago:
Alrighty then.
- Comment on Nic Cage through the years 10 months ago:
You don’t say?