• f314@lemmy.worldEnglish
      29·
      5 days ago

      Just checked App Store:

      Connected to you

      • Contact Info
      • User Content
      • Identifiers

      Not connected to you

      • Diagnostics
    • ramenshaman@lemmy.worldEnglish
      91·
      5 days ago

      I haven’t been asked to give any weird permissions, I just needed an email address and password to sign up. I never used twitter or anything similar other than instagram but I gotta say I’m not too excited about bluesky so far. I signed up when I found out Elon was mad because people were leaving twitter for bluesky. I enjoy seeing Mark Hamill’s and George Takei’s posts, and the most recent JWST pics are awesome, but overall I’m not a big fan. Maybe the way I set it up is suboptimal? Idk, I probably already have enough things sucking away my time and attention.

      • qyron@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        3·
        5 days ago

        So many questions in my mind…

        If:

        • Shit

        As in literal shit, no, and lets try to keep it that way.

        • Shit

        As nohing of quality, that is absent everywhere. Go read a book, you’re better off. Support an online archive while you are at it. Save ebooks and other cultural media in an offline support and share ot with others

        • Shit

        As an indication of quantity, I disagree. There is plenty of shit to scroll through and pilling higher every second.

        • Shit

        As in all of the above… where can you even find that?

            • OpenStars@piefed.socialEnglish
              11·
              5 days ago

              I like [email protected] and the newly created [email protected], both often feature OC - not exclusively but being kinda known for a preference and offering of such. Maybe [email protected] too, but it’s far less active.

              But if people want to offer content, they will. Except often the environment is not welcoming, so it’s a bit of a cache-22 needing solid moderation first, but needing solid content even first-er, which leads to super power mods who know how having to do most of the mod work.

              It’s not easy, but we do seem to be growing, even as it looks like from the count of actual people we’re probably shrinking just a tiny bit, though those here are more active. Mostly in comments rather than posts.

              • Ofiuco@lemmy.cafeEnglish
                1·
                4 days ago

                I agree with you 100%, but I think the root of the problem during the reddit exodus was that people wanted to grow at any cost so they allowed reposts, low effort and bots/scripts that kept bringing in things from reddit or non-news… which honestly was a lot of things except solid content, now people are so used to those things that we don’t really have anything to offer outside of those communities, the rest is just a reddit copy-paste.

                • OpenStars@piefed.socialEnglish
                  11·
                  4 days ago

                  Except, again, I see so many people commenting that they don’t want to post content, for fear of the feedback that they will get. You cannot force people to do something against their will.

                  And content creators in particular are a special breed: they don’t care as much about using Arch Linux btw, or perhaps politics, so much as reaching a wider audience. And we are not very tolerant here to outsiders POV (go visit lemmy.ml without a logged-in account and tell me what you see there on the front page or two? its default sort is Local btw, so don’t change that -> this is what newcomers seem to most often see, as that is the #1 instance recommendation by a Google search, not DDG but Google, as in what a mainstream normie would use; tbf the anti-Western world barrage might have calmed down since the elections?).

                  Particularly the downvote barraging - I’ve posted literal award-winning content that gets as many downvotes as upvotes, by people who seemed to not know what was being offered. Oh well. Once a post is made, we can and often do have nice conversations here, but we just as often have conversations with trolls. We are not terribly welcoming. Especially hexbear.

                  But take another look at those communities I mentioned - often those are OC. Not always, but sometimes.