Supervisor194

@Supervisor194@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I discover the Pixelfed content that is out there when so many big instances block exploration?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Algorithms are not universally good and helpful. They should be designed to boost engagement only in that they serve to find content you wouldn’t be able to see otherwise, not to boost engagement at all costs by feeding you things they think you will click on. It’s an important distinction.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Discord is bad because its forums are not world-readable, therefore not indexable. It’s very useful to the rest of the world to have conversations be public. I bet the youngest users here don’t even remember but searching Google in the 2000s before Facebook went huge and when forums were all world-readable, it was a different world. You could find somebody who was talking about your niche issue/product - no matter what it was. It was kind of magical. No matter what thing happened to you, you could be pretty sure it had happened to someone else and they were talking about it.

  Not anymore. Everything’s on Facebook now and Google can’t see it, nor can anyone else - except Facebook. All that legacy knowledge just tucked away in Facebook’s data vault and essentially useless to anybody but Facebook, which makes it less than useless.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Comrade Krasnov is just a follower of Leninist tought !⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I believe, like Michael Lewis, that the stock market is nearly 100% price controlled via HFT algorithms, leveraging the dark pools run by the wealthiest banks and hedge funds. If this is correct, then the market will never outright crash again. Therefore, no one, from this point forward, should take have any notion that the stock market will punish Trump. Ultimately, the stock market will fluctuate for dramatic effect, but will continue on a steady upward trend completely decoupled from any particular reality.

  Oh would you look at that, it’s up 353 points today.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ribbit⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Clearly the author of the original meme has never read Watership Down.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Try not caring. The more Reddit users come here the more it’s going to suck.

  This is just bot-driven FUD anyway, Lemmy is nothing like old Reddit and it wouldn’t be disqualifying if it was.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I miss when you could get a flagship phone that could fit in your hand⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m rocking an SE2 and probably next year I’ll reluctantly upgrade to an SE3, which I will keep for at least two more years. After that, I’m fairly certain I’m cooked, as all available phones will be faceid phablets. FML.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pixelfed's first plateau in progress⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Frankly, whatever secret sauce it is that makes social media popular is also what drives them to be such shit and be so shit for society. I like Lemmy way more than I like Reddit, and even though I have to go back to Reddit from time to time to fill the needs of my niche interests (which can get no traction where there are not mobs of participants in the greater whole) I never ever look at my interactions there and go “I wish Lemmy was more like this.”

  It’s a conundrum.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk email to X staff: ‘we’re barely breaking even’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  He knows full well all-staff emails are going to be leaked. So he wanted this message to get out. If he hadn’t, he would have dealt only with the managers in meetings and let directives flow down to the scrubs that way.

  I can’t fathom why he’d feel the need for this message to get out, as there don’t appear to be any consequences for him for anything at all, so… I’ll leave that to others.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just sucking some milk out of the strawsage⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  unsubscribe

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grr Windows⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Windows 10 users, I’ve been using kill-update.exe for years now to only update Windows when I damn well want to.

  Disclaimer: before the inevitable dogpile, yes, this is bad practice. Yes there are many reasons why you might not want to do this. Yes, allowing your software to update itself whenever it wants is safer. No, I don’t care. If you don’t care either, this software might be for you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wednesday it is, my dudes.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hot take, English got it wrong. I’ve never heard a frog make a sound like “ribbit”.

  It’s a real thing. Super common in the Southern US when I was a kid.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Big Mac⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah thanks, I was about to call Peter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As if installing and using something else means you can’t have Chrome lying around for that one stupid website.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, and we will drop Mozilla when it drops uBlock as well. We will all get behind whatever open-source browser stops ads, and it will very quickly become the most widely used browser. Why? Because everybody despises fucking ads and you can’t curb-stomp them into liking ads, that’s why.

  Google can spend all the money it likes trying to piss on users and tell them it’s raining but at the end of the day, a new king will be crowned and if it isn’t Chrome and it isn’t Firefox, then it will be something else.

  And no, FOSS doesn’t need money behind it. FOSS needs a dedicated community behind it. Assertions to the contrary are FUD constantly being seeded by Google, Microsoft and their ilk to destroy competition. This is an existential necessity for Google, you can bet they are doing everything in their power to maintain the status quo.