I can’t speak for other people, but if lemmy.world were to shut down today I’d just pick another server.

I will admit, it was confusing and almost turned me off at first. I was very upset about the whole deal with third party apps on Reddit. My daughter gave me the whole email analogy and it cleared my hesitation to join Lemmy.

I don’t know how it is today, but I had to apply to join world when I first got on. It would be awesome if an app would sign a person up for, say, three different servers and sync settings between them. Something goes down, wouldn’t even notice.

Assholes ruin everything though and making it easier for bot accounts to exist would end badly.

I don’t know.

When I first got on here it was a mess. It didn’t work half the time and when it did no content was being generated. I stuck it out though and I’m glad I did.

I’m definitely not the right person to come up with any solutions.

Man. You just gave me an idea (which would matter if I wasn’t a complete idiot).

Instead of servers that all attempt to be a sort of clone of Reddit, servers could focus on content similar to the way subreddits work.

So you’d join any one of these servers and federate with other servers just like now, only content would be focused between servers.

Example:

This server is a games server. It has /c/games, /c/fallout, /c/vintagegaming, etc.

This server will focus on news and politics. It has /c/worldnews, /c/marketnews, etc.

Sure, it would still have the issue of being fractured, but it would narrow it down so much that it would be more appealing and easier to navigate.

It’s probably too late for that.

Ultimately, I’m happy with the fediverse. Algorithms aren’t dictating what I see. There’s no profit incentive that will lead to bad decisions, so when bad decisions are made, folks will talk about it and come to a solution.

I miss old Reddit, but it’s gone.

I’ll shit on your shit and they can eat my shit too.

It was ripped directly from my cd at 320kbps and played on an iPod 5th generation (iPod video).

Not OP, but I promise you that I can hear what sounds like digital water being thrown over the cymbals when listening to mp3 files below 320 kbps. Even then, every now and then I hear that sound here and there across whatever record I’m listening to.

I don’t experience it when listening to records, CDs, or cassettes.

My hearing used to be very sensitive. When the whole world was using CRTs, I could tell you who had their tv on just standing outside their house.

I thought it didn’t sound any different to me too. That is until me and a friend were riding around listening to Icky Thump by The White Stripes for a few weeks when it first came out.

Higher bitrate, ripped directly from the CD, pretty decent car radio.

We had been listening to my copy, he didn’t own it yet.

We stopped at a record store one day when we were out and he picked up his copy. He wanted to play the CD for whatever reason, and when he stuck the disc in, “berderwiddledod dahta dah BOOM BOOM BOOM”.

I couldn’t believe it. It was like the record just sucked the power out of us both and used it to burst through the speakers.

The mp3, by comparison, sounded shrunk down from the source and splashed with water.

It didn’t change my listening habits because of convenience, but damn. It was an eye opener.

I have a cousin who got measles as a kid. She was around 7 I guess. She’s in her 50s now.

She has been totally dependent on her mom and her siblings since. It totally fried her brain. She’s very sweet and everyone likes her, but she was nearly erased.

People ask her any question and can lead her to any answer. “Hey Sheila, I heard you had a million dollars in the bank and you were gonna give me half of it.”

“Yeah, I have a million over at the bank and I’m going to give you half. Mommy will ride us over there and and we go get it. Yeah.”

“Hey Sheila, I was told that you’re pregnant and the baby is coming tomorrow.”

“Yeah I have a baby, it comes tomorrow. I name it Princess. Yeah.”

I mean you can get her to say anything. She won’t cuss though, not directly anyway.

“Sheila, Bobby told me that you said fuck ass this morning.”

“Nooooo. I don’t cuss. I don’t say fuck ass. Them is bad words. Yeah.”

It’s like she’s a little kid but less her own person. She was a bright kid before measles. It sucks because the only reason she wasn’t vaccinated is because she came from the poorest part of WV. There were no doctors where she grew up. Her older siblings had been vaccinated through some measure to vaccinate rural communities. She just missed it by being born too late. Her mom hates herself for it, but she just didn’t take it too seriously until she had to. Her mom is in her 80s now and still taking care of her. She’s a tough woman, still working 45 hours a week. Once she’s gone I’m sure her older sister will care for her.

It blows my mind that there are people don’t take diseases seriously out there in the world.

Remember when America was white except for the hood that we didn’t drive through.

Minion farm remembers.

I can’t believe that gif exists. I expected to find more cheesy confederate minion pics though.

Edit:

Oh my God I need to make a bunch of crazy dumb minion memes centered around the Pepperidge farm meme and see if people post them unironically. You know they will.