JaymesRS
@JaymesRS@literature.cafe
- Comment on Bluesky hits 20 million users 1 day ago:
Twitter, where the response to “I like Hot Dogs” is “Why don’t you like Cheeseburgers???”
- Comment on Is there any truth to this? 2 days ago:
There has also been an influx of toxic people whose only joy is getting a reaction out of others that are joining because the people they’d normally target on X are leaving. I’ve seen them trying to get the same type of engagement they used to get and also a lot of other people calling them out as “Hey, this person is an ass, you can block them/add them to the MAGA Trolls list”. That could seem like a flood of toxicity to some.
- Comment on Why BlueSky Isn’t the Alternative to X (Formerly Twitter) You’re Looking For — and Why Mastodon Is the Better Choice Over X, Threads, and BlueSky 4 days ago:
I’ve been on Bluesky since February. I have yet to see any nudity that I didn’t actively seek out. It’s not too difficult.
- Comment on Why BlueSky Isn’t the Alternative to X (Formerly Twitter) You’re Looking For — and Why Mastodon Is the Better Choice Over X, Threads, and BlueSky 4 days ago:
There’s been a large-ish influx of maga users, looking for people to harass in the last week as the other normies have left Twitter too because they are sad and lonely people, so people’s ban fingers especially those with large accounts, are a bit heavy right now. So yeah, it probably completely came off wrong (like someone asking when white history month is) vs asking if there was a specific other ethnic starter pack that drew your interest. Sorry that was your experience.
- Comment on Why BlueSky Isn’t the Alternative to X (Formerly Twitter) You’re Looking For — and Why Mastodon Is the Better Choice Over X, Threads, and BlueSky 6 days ago:
That works when the decentralized protocol is the 800 lb gorilla first. You can’t get there with the fediverse in this internet era, sadly.
- Comment on Why BlueSky Isn’t the Alternative to X (Formerly Twitter) You’re Looking For — and Why Mastodon Is the Better Choice Over X, Threads, and BlueSky 6 days ago:
I’m guessing you meant this sarcastically, but you may have been right for the wrong reasons. Look at this graph, by the metric of the way the fediverse works that is a failure. Apple and Google are massively dominant because people don’t want to think about it and most just go with their phone is maker, and there is no fediverse server equivalent to that.
- Comment on Why BlueSky Isn’t the Alternative to X (Formerly Twitter) You’re Looking For — and Why Mastodon Is the Better Choice Over X, Threads, and BlueSky 6 days ago:
See my reply above, but for most users, yes, that’s the easier onboarding.
- Comment on Why BlueSky Isn’t the Alternative to X (Formerly Twitter) You’re Looking For — and Why Mastodon Is the Better Choice Over X, Threads, and BlueSky 6 days ago:
Honestly that’s probably the best sort of solution. A group that has some minimum standards of moderation and maintenance/upgrade management plan and just evenly distribute the load as people arrive.
Then as a second phase make it easy to transfer, that way ad the point the user gets comfortable they can easily swap to a better “home” for those that care, for those that don’t, make the server choice be virtually invisible.
- Comment on Why BlueSky Isn’t the Alternative to X (Formerly Twitter) You’re Looking For — and Why Mastodon Is the Better Choice Over X, Threads, and BlueSky 6 days ago:
Having actually read this now, the biggest valid complaint is the same one rehashed in the past. It’s VC funded to start and the future there is uncertain. There are some mitigations like having the code be open source from the start and almost completely self host-able with improvements to come at this early stage that try to fend that off though.
Saying Mastodon is better because there’s no algorithm is true of Bluesky too. And if they are seeing as much porn as it sounds like (unless you’re talking about Alf’s Hog or Tom Bombadill’s Big Naturals which were a bit like when Lemmy Shitpost goes gets on a bean streak) their feed I built by who they followed.
- Comment on Why BlueSky Isn’t the Alternative to X (Formerly Twitter) You’re Looking For — and Why Mastodon Is the Better Choice Over X, Threads, and BlueSky 6 days ago:
As long as the fediverse has a barrier to entry for most people of mandating choosing a server first, it will never become the mainstream choice.
- Comment on X rival Bluesky gains 1.25 million users following U.S. election 1 week ago:
Bluesky also lets you unpin your quotes from others posts so no quote dunking and they have a nuclear block. If you’re blocked, you can’t see their posts anywhere in quotes or otherwise (excepting screenshots) and that interaction is broken completely even to third parties that may have neither blocked.
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- Comment on Pretty sound reasoning here. 3 weeks ago:
No, the trunk will stop it.
- Comment on Pretty sound reasoning here. 3 weeks ago:
Great idea, hey everyone, we’re going to use doingthestuffs dick to stop bullets now. That way your finger doesn’t get stuck in the barrel no matter how smooth it is.
- Comment on Pretty sound reasoning here. 3 weeks ago:
That’s only true for an elephant gun or a howizer, everyone knows that the elephant gun bullets only stop if the elephant puts their trunk in the barrel and the horse would need to be on a ladder for the howitzer. Horses can’t climb ladders, silly.
- Comment on Pretty sound reasoning here. 3 weeks ago:
Sure, but at some point you need to acknowledge that though you can lead a horse to water, you can’t stick their hoof in the barrel of a gun to stop a bullet.
- Comment on Bad news 3 weeks ago:
Half of 99 is still 92 though, right?
- Comment on Pretty sound reasoning here. 3 weeks ago:
One person even noted how kids fingers are smaller and most adult’s fingers wouldn’t fit in the barrel… lol. That’s what the pinky is for, it’s smol for a reason, duh.
- Comment on "You'll end up in a van down by the river" if you do drugs, don't go to college, etc. advice never includes the warning: "Don't suffer major Depression that gives you complete apathy for existence." 3 weeks ago:
Second degree‽
Those are rookie numbers. You gotta bump that up to third at least.
- Comment on "You'll end up in a van down by the river" if you do drugs, don't go to college, etc. advice never includes the warning: "Don't suffer major Depression that gives you complete apathy for existence." 3 weeks ago:
Have you tried taking a walk outside in the sun while eating better and getting more sleep?
- Comment on Tap on the screen 1 month ago:
That doesn’t work. This one does, full picture with a double tap. Image
- Comment on Your stupid decal finally makes sense! 1 month ago:
In Minnesota, this is Salt Life.a snowplow spraying a salt mixture to help prevent icing on the roads.
- Comment on Okay, two issues here... 1 month ago:
Is this a proto-Piper Perri meme?
- Comment on Sci-Fi author Robert J. Sawyer releases archive of WordStar 7 3 months ago:
WordStar is the reason I like the text editor Joe. It functions very similarly out of the box and even has a WordStar specific flavor.
- Comment on The Google TV Streamer might be the Apple TV 4K rival we’ve been waiting for - The Verge 3 months ago:
At least until they kill the product in 18 months
- Comment on Just $99? 4 months ago:
Isn’t that just a merkin?
- Comment on Active communities promotion thread 4 months ago:
If you enjoy reading, !Books@Lemmy.world is pretty active place to discuss what you’re reading and review it or get recommendations.
I try to post significant price drops routinely to !ebookdeals@literature.cafe as well. I mostly post ones that I have heard good things about or read myself and really enjoyed are valid at all 3 big US ebook retailers, Kobo, Barnes & Noble, and Amazon at the same time or Humble Bundles. There’s no rule against others posting deals they endorse for other regions or other books, I just wanted to avoid it being a firehouse of spammy links and I only shop US Stores.
- Comment on Wise Men Said 4 months ago:
That’s false, in 2000 there was 84,999. Elvis faked his own death to get a piece of the impersonator action.
- Comment on We all know it's true 4 months ago:
Im also actually u/match
- Comment on My mom's doctor be like 4 months ago:
on a related note, I also wonder I wonder how many older people self-treated ADHD/ADD with nicotine without realizing what was going on.
