GrizzlyBur

@GrizzlyBur@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sounds crazy but... maybe you shouldn't delete Facebook just yet⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I was thinking that lemmy.ca needs a ehbuddyhoser on here. It is insane how that sub is the most patriotic canadian subreddit on reddit aside from buycanadian lmao

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sounds crazy but... maybe you shouldn't delete Facebook just yet⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe once I get a job first. I need to sell the idea of myself to my small field first before I start trying to convince them why a federated social media alternative would benefit them. Honestly, aside from sticking it to facebook, I don’t think there would be tangible benefits. In all honesty, it would potentially fracture the field and weaken us even more by decreasing our professional network strength. I think if they migrate over here, it will have to be organically rather than coerced by me. Lots of people in my field migrating from twitter to bluesky though, so we take wins when we get them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sounds crazy but... maybe you shouldn't delete Facebook just yet⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Can anyone explain to me what the primary difference is between Mastadon and Bluesky? I never used Mastadon but it is meant to be a twitter alternative correct? It seems like bluesky is gaining much more traction than mastadon ever did, based solely on how I literally hear nothing about it ever. If I am wrong on mastadon not being widely adopted, do tell, I am genuinely asking.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sounds crazy but... maybe you shouldn't delete Facebook just yet⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Unfortunately I actually just joined facebook recently. My professional field is a rather small one, and there are strong and established profesional groups on there that greatly benefit me that only exist on facebook. I am desperately looking for a job at the moment so I’d something I sorta have to grin and bear. I have an ad block and I don’t even post or engage with any of the crap on there though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sounds crazy but... maybe you shouldn't delete Facebook just yet⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It is a matter of engagement. People like engaging with dumb meme more than data privacy stuff. Especially when people don’t understand the ramifications of poor data privacy or understand fundamentally what the even means. Heck, even I don’t understand what companies harvesting my data will mean for my personal life. I am guilty of ignoring data privacy posts in favour of dumb memes too.

  It sucks, but thats why the term edu-tainment was coined. To educate people, you must also entertain them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sounds crazy but... maybe you shouldn't delete Facebook just yet⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I had someone post in the r/saskatchewan subreddit about lemmy.ca, and I had forgotten all about lemmy or that I even had an account on here already until they mentioned it.

  Other social media sucks for sure, but OP has a point here. Lemmy is still at the stage where people only enter if they are told/reminded it exists. I genuinely thought lemmy died already. People finding lemmy naturally is very unlikely at this stage. It’s word of mouth, so the people here gotta start wording and mouthing about it.