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I’d really love to have an open-source version of her. I’m sure the community could come up with a few more ways to apply the concept. And it’d finally be some very useful use-case for AI 😅

Someone recently posted that: https://youtube.com/watch?v=RV_SdCfZ-0s an AI granny, wasting scammer’s time. I think we need more like that. 😆

Idk, if you reply, they’re incentivised to send you even more messages. Think it through before doing anything.

Nice one. Though, I think as one of the Linux nerds here, I should be wearing a hoodie and saying “Lemmy users are normal people”. And I do get good answers here, regarding computer stuff. But it doesn’t feel they’re nearly as loud as in any single computer forum… Maybe the bell curve is closer to me. And the users who complain that it’s too much Linux content are wrong?!

But it’s peaked this March, and we’re in constant decline since then. We’re losing a few hundred users each month, not growing.

Most Lemmy users and the developers say they prefer slow growth… I mean you’re right. My point is just, it does look more like active decline. And I’m not sure if that’s healthy.

You’re right. That’s a good thing. At the same time it has a lot more “normal people” than other places on the internet, I frequent.

We will grow organically, or not, and it will be fine.

I think that’s pretty much settled by now. Judging by the stats, the graph has homed in on a steady line of 45k monthly active users. And there hasn’t been any movement for some time now. It’s going to be the “or not” part.

That’s exactly what I’ve been telling for some time now, as well.

I think we should be nice and welcoming and provide a good atmosphere. Maybe a unique (in a good way) community that can’t be found anywhere else. I mean we need something that sets us apart. If we’re just another low-key social media platform that is bad as well, just in a different way, we won’t attract any users.

And we need to offer something useful(?) to (new) users.

Plus we need to solve a few technical issues. The onboarding process needs to be a lot easier. It has to be clicking “Next” a few times and maybe choosing a password. Not learning about instances etc and then you also get to sort through the communities and put in a lot of effort to make it useful.
And I’ve heard admins complain, so there might be a few other issues with performance, reliability and other details.
I also think the UI has to be shiny to attract normal people. And there needs to be constant and visible improvement, maybe useful new features every now and then. So it looks active, and provides some novelty and innovation.

Maybe even some “Wow”-factor.

Furthermore, maybe a bit less drama. And it has to be obvious that Lemmy is a nice place. I mean it is. But most people I’ve showed it to, didn’t notice this at first glance.

Sure. Wording and implementing a law, applying it, and the original (pretend) idea of what it’s going to solve are two things. But if you can slip into an illegal gathering by accident, we have yet another problem and those laws aren’t well-defined. I mean that’s caprice. And we’re supposed to live in a democracy, not depotism. So it’s wrong either way.

I think we’re talking at cross purposes… I 100% share your perspective. Same for me: Don’t throw sick people under the bus. In fact, don’t throw anyone under the bus. Don’t cut down on freedom and democracy. Don’t turn it into a total surveillance state just because you’re a politician and took Orwell as an instruction manual.

??? I’m not celebrating that. I’m saying it’s “better” to target immunocompromised people the two times a year they go to a protest, than to target them every day in their daily lives. You could as well also ban them from protecting themselves in the supermarket or in the subway. And make their lives completely miserable. Going to protests happens more rarely, so it has lesser impact. But no. It’s totally not good or acceptable either.

Nice… Using a law that was meant for the Ku Klux Klan to repress democratic routine and freedom. At least that one seems to be targeted at protests and not all every day life. And it contains exemptions. I’m just not sure if “we want to film the faces of everyone who doesn’t agree with us” is a valid reason in a democracy. At least not on it’s own and if there isn’t some good reason to do it.

I mean that whole idea is stupid. I’m still wearing masks on occasion. I don’t want to spread my mild flu to all the coworkers in the office, crowded train etc… I think we should do it like in some asian countries, where you’d just stop the flu spreading to some degree. Since you can’t stay at home all the time and that’s kind of contagious…

And the only benefit is that some dystopian total video surveillance keeps working…

Thx. Seems I’m not too bad off, not following the news that closely… 😔

Is some idiot trying to outlaw medical equipment in the States?

What a shitty idea.

I think Zak has a better take on that than me. I mean ultimately we have all freedom one level further down. We can use this software for pretty much anything. And even modify it. Whatever we like. We can choose to implement total free speech. Or we can decide to moderate. We can talk about privacy, or all kinds of things.

And it’s not some company who makes the rules and says we can’t share illegal content (for example) or hate on each other…

That’s our freedom to decide. But we implicitly agree on something. I for example don’t like hate, misinformation, fascists etc. I block them. And I remove that content. So I technically I take away other people’s freedom to say whatever they want in my communities and on my instance. And a lot of other admins and moderators do, too. And since this network is made up of individuals… That leads to a certain agreement… Otherwise you’d force me to hang out with people I absolutely don’t like, and that cuts into my freedom.

So you can say anything you want. But I can exclude you from parts of the network that I control. But you can do the same.

And since it’s federated: we can have one instance doing one thing and another one doing something else. I’ve not seen any true free speech instance yet. But you could start one. And that’s freedom.

And related to privacy: Here, your data isn’t used for advertising, sold to third-party companies etc.

I think it’s mainly about freedom. And having a platform that we (the users) control.

It’s still social media. So we’re limited in what we can do. And federation, transparency etc also mean we’re spreading information across various servers and making them available. That might clash with privacy at times. But I mean posting content to the public and at the same time wanting it to be hidden is contradictory anyways?!

And free spech is difficult. We had some people try to invent platforms that cater for this. They usually get filled with trolls and nazis and die quickly. So I’d say “free speech” is undesirable anyways.

I think it’s a common misconception that Lemmy is about privacy or free speech. It’s more social media and there are other platforms to cater for anonymous conversations or spreading unpopular or illegal content. This platform isn’t designed with that in mind…