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- Comment on Why are people preferring Blue Sky over Mastodon? 2 days ago:
Feels like deciding in 2010 between Twitter and Reddit in some ways…
- Comment on Why does the PC gaming industry still use such deceptive pricing? 1 month ago:
Nintendo does have sales from time to time, they’re just rarely great discounts. If you have a switch and you wishlist games they will email you if your wishlisted game goes on sale.
- Comment on US Federal Reserve Cuts Interest Rates By Half a Point 1 month ago:
Agree about the stock markets being overvalued. However, I disagree about the impact of the rate cut on the market. I expect that many investors have been shoveling money into the s&p 500 because it has been the most reliable way to make a return that out paces inflation. As the rate comes down, I’d expect more investors to return to riskier markets and ventures because the opportunity cost is lower and the potential returns are worth it.
Cutting the rate gives CFOs some breathing room, which could go a long way toward creating some new jobs.
- Comment on US Federal Reserve Cuts Interest Rates By Half a Point 1 month ago:
I was surprised that they went for half a point; I expected a quarter. Are you concerned that we could see another spike in inflation?
Anecdotally, I’ve seen a lot of friction in the job market over the last year, so hopefully this is the signal that the market has been waiting for to green light some of the projects that have been getting put on hold due to “economic conditions”.
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- Comment on My friend gifted me a "fighting RPG" that turned out to be something else entirely 2 months ago:
Good seems pretty subjective tbh but if you’re interested in “research”, f95zone is probably your best resource.
- Comment on Amazon’s recommendations are getting a little too creepy 2 months ago:
¿Porque no los dos?
Why couldn’t it be both?
- Comment on Climate scientists flee Twitter as hostility surges 2 months ago:
Respectfully, you were the one who pointed out the impact of the Network Effect.
The adoption of a product by an additional user can be broken into two effects: an increase in the value to all other users (total effect) and also the enhancement of other non-users’ motivation for using the product (marginal effect).
Thus, users don’t need to understand the credentials of the platform if the network effect is strong enough, but as users leave the network, the value (credentials) of the platform as a whole decreases.
Another way to think about it is that the amount Twitter “matters” is directly related to how much we collectively agree it matters. While not directly transferable, I’d suggest that Keynes’ Animal Spirits concept can help us to understand why this might be the case - prevailing attitudes towards a platform can have a profound impact on their value.
- Comment on Climate scientists flee Twitter as hostility surges 2 months ago:
Counterpoint: Twitter will continue to maintain a critical mass of users until enough people move somewhere else to make it irrelevant. Continuing to use it only serves to further credentialize the platform, making it even less likely that users will find a new home someplace else.
- Comment on Firefox rolls out Total Cookie Protection by default to all desktop users worldwide | It is Firefox’s strongest privacy protection to date, confining cookies to the site where they were created 2 months ago:
- Comment on Existing California solar customers may get blindsided with net metering cuts 2 months ago:
This is exactly what PG&E is hoping for, yes. ⭐
- Comment on Existing California solar customers may get blindsided with net metering cuts 2 months ago:
One of the few laws that we haven’t sorted out a way to break!
- Comment on Gearbox founder says Epic Games Store hopes were “misplaced or overly optimistic” 2 months ago:
Neat, well thanks for the heads up
- Comment on Gearbox founder says Epic Games Store hopes were “misplaced or overly optimistic” 2 months ago:
Wait now it appears I’m the one out of the loop. When did that start?
- Comment on "giving a tax cut to the Nobles will open up new opportunities for the Commoners" 2 months ago:
People forget a lot of things like this, thanks for the reminder.
- Comment on Indigenous creators are clashing with YouTube’s and Instagram’s sensitive content bans. 2 months ago:
This is my favorite form of protest.
- Comment on Indigenous creators are clashing with YouTube’s and Instagram’s sensitive content bans. 2 months ago:
Legend has it that some people spend their entire work day trying to determine if a nipple is a boy nipple or a girl nipple. Could you fucking imagine?
- Comment on Indigenous creators are clashing with YouTube’s and Instagram’s sensitive content bans. 2 months ago:
✅ Accurate ✅ Concise ✅ Relevant
Checks all the boxes for a top tier response here. Cheers.
- Comment on USA | Democrats Attacked a Muslim Woman for Protesting Biden’s Speech. She’s a Harris Delegate. 2 months ago:
Friend, you’re right, I am missing your point.
I wasn’t trying to engage in a conversation with you at any point. I don’t know why you keep replying.
We seem to mostly be in alignment on the issue of liberals and Nazis not being the same. I was offering my viewpoint to the original commenter I replied to, just in the same way that you did, when you came at me with this “I’m standing right here” bullshit.
If you’re hurt because I’ve insulted your instance, that’s tough. If you hang out with Anarchists all the time, you aren’t allowed to get upset if someone calls you an Anarchist. I’m far from the only person who has pointed out the frequency of viewpoints that lack any connection to reality coming out of Hexbear. My comment was a PSA and I won’t apologize for calling it out.
- Comment on USA | Democrats Attacked a Muslim Woman for Protesting Biden’s Speech. She’s a Harris Delegate. 2 months ago:
Yes, I recall the speeches Biden has given where he rallies the crowd against the Palestinian scourge!
Look, I’m not arguing that the Israelis are doing anything positive, I’m merely suggesting that the venn diagram of people who are thankful that Biden dropped out and people who support genocide is not a circle.
- Comment on USA | Democrats Attacked a Muslim Woman for Protesting Biden’s Speech. She’s a Harris Delegate. 2 months ago:
Anyone holding a “Thank you Joe” sign supports the genocide of Palestinians
Have you ever considered that being this much of a reductionist is limiting your ability to understand the true nature of the world around you?
- Comment on USA | Democrats Attacked a Muslim Woman for Protesting Biden’s Speech. She’s a Harris Delegate. 2 months ago:
You’re standing right here, on Lemmy.zip, not on your home instance, and the comment I was responding to was a response to a different Hexbear user who was literally saying that there is no difference between liberals and Nazis.
If I meant to reply to your comment, I would have done that.
It was incredibly jarring when I first got to Lemmy and started running into nutjobs who seem to be on some sort of crusade, spouting ideas so far out of touch that they’re either straight up trolling or they are state propaganda assets from a western adversary. Sometimes when people ask where these people are coming from, I like to provide something of an orientation, as the community will never survive off of nutjobs alone.
- Comment on USA | Democrats Attacked a Muslim Woman for Protesting Biden’s Speech. She’s a Harris Delegate. 2 months ago:
First, I appreciate your reference to literal dozens of liberals. 😁
Second, you’re right that most liberals don’t want revolution. Non-liberals too, for the most part! Unfortunately, in some corners of Lemmy, such as Hexbear or Lemmygrad, the ability to distinguish and discuss nuance is not included in what I would describe as their “community values”.
If you’re looking for a constructive discussion about policy issues, you’re barking up the wrong tree. Alternatively, if you prefer to discuss everything in terms of absolutes, and you love China and tanks, it could be a great time.
- Comment on Can anyone suggest some good co-op games for two people? 2 months ago:
Ah, well I’m sure it will still be here if/when you escape from Elden Ring. Have fun!
- Comment on Can anyone suggest some good co-op games for two people? 2 months ago:
They just added a bunch of new missions, planet modifiers, and ship call downs, which was a pleasant surprise. Also, there is a lot of speculation that they’re going to introduce the third enemy race pretty soon, so if you were enjoying it before, now might not be a bad time to dip your toe back in the pool.
- Comment on Lemmy votes ARE public, should they be anonymous? 2 months ago:
Sort by Top and I’m sure the crusaders of New will have everything sorted out by then. If you find these ideas being upvoted, you’re in the wrong community and you may be in a lemmygrad community. You’re on the wrong side of the train tracks and need to seek higher ground.
We don’t need to create literal echo chambers of people talking past each other because we block out any information that makes us uncomfortable. That’s not how we foster constructive dialog and
- Comment on Lemmy votes ARE public, should they be anonymous? 2 months ago:
Yes, I too salivate at the idea that I could simply disappear all of the ideas I disagree with, but that is exactly how to turn a community into an echo chamber.
So I have users A B C D E F who are known to me who have voted on a given post. D and E are idiots I disregard their votes. F literally hates everything I love so I count his votes inversely. A and B are fantastic I count them x10 I tend to agree with C so I count his x2.
What you are suggesting here is, as I’m understanding it, a way to only get feedback from people you agree with and to never experience a critical discussion of ideas based on their merits.
Now, I’m not here to suggest that Lemmy is some kind of shining beacon of drama-free intellectualism, where every idea is discussed without bias or agenda, but I DO think it is valuable to hear from people whose lived experiences led them to a different conclusion than the one I’ve reached. Obviously there needs to be a mechanism to remove trolls from the discussion, but I fear a world where we only see content that we agree with, because then we will truly be removed from reality, and that’s not why I’m here.
- Comment on Lemmy votes ARE public, should they be anonymous? 2 months ago:
“If you have nothing to hide then you have nothing to fear.”
Given the strong presence of the privacy community on Lemmy, I have to say that I’m a bit shocked to hear so many in these discussions chiming in to support voting transparency.
I’m on board with the idea of using ring signatures to validate the legitimacy of a vote and moderating spammers based on metadata.
Or, for something (potentially) easier to implement, aggregating vote tallies at the instance level (votes visible to your instance admin and mods) and federating the votes anonymously by instance, so you might see something like:
- lemmy.world: 9 up, 2 down
- discuss.tchncs.de: 3 up, 4 down
- Etc
Up/down votes are the method of community moderation that sets Reddit apart from many other platforms. If the Lemmy community is trying to capture some of that magic, which is good for both highlighting gems AND burying turds, radical transparency isn’t the path to get there.
In fact, I’d argue that the secret ballot has already been thoroughly discussed and tested throughout history and there are plenty of legitimate examples of why it would be better if they were more secret than they are today.
Many people have brought up the idea of brigading, but would this truly get better if votes are public? Is it hard to imagine noticing that an account you generally trust has voted and matching their vote, even subconsciously?
For those who feel that they aren’t able to post on Lemmy because downvotes make you feel sad, my feeling is that if you make posts in a community and they consistently get down voted to oblivion, you’re in the wrong place. The people in that community don’t value your contributions, and you should find another place to share them. This is the system working as intended and the mods should be thankful that such a system has been implemented.
The last point I’ll make is about the potential for a chilling effect - making users less likely to interact with a post in any way due to a fear of retaliation. Look - if you’re looking for a platform where all of your activity is public, those are out there. Why should we make Lemmy look just like every other platform?
- Comment on Russia wants to ban Last train home 2 months ago:
Not just for the joy of pissing Russia off more, but I’d recommend the game for fans of tactical strategy games. The overall story arc is pretty interesting too, especially when you remember that it is based on a true story.
- Comment on USA | FDA rejects MDMA-assisted therapy for PTSD in a setback for psychedelic medicine 3 months ago:
There’s a lot of that around here, thanks for calling it out when you see it.