ForbiddenRoot

“Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people”

Perhaps its an overgeneralization, but I like the concept behind it and at least it keeps me from gossiping / talking about people behind their backs. I am mostly an average mind though, by this definition.

I wear them only if I have a cold or a cough myself now, or if I am traveling on a plane. I still carry a mask with me at all times though.

I don’t want to get sucked into an ecosystem where my choice of what product to buy is so limited.

This isn’t actually the case in my experience, because non-Apple products work just fine with the iPhone unless it’s some Android-specific accessory. No one wants to ignore the iPhone market so they make sure that their product is well-supported on iPhones. For instance, I use a bunch of headphones from various manufacturers, apart from AirPods, and they all work great too.

The actual issue is that if you want to move from iPhone to Android later you may have issues getting some Apple devices you have to work with Android, e.g. I don’t think the Apple Watch works at all with Android.

why do you use iPhone?

In my case, because I had a bad experience with Android phones in their early years. Each model I used had one or the other issues, either battery life, camera issues, screen issues or something else. Around the Samsung S3 days I finally moved to iPhone and “everything just worked”.

I am sure things are better now in the Android world hardware-wise (and software-wise Android has always been able to do more), but over the years I have become firmly entrenched in the Apple ecosystem with the Apple Watch, Airpods, Macbooks, Apple TV etc so it doesn’t make sense for me to switch again because there isn’t a compelling reason for me to do so.

My first experience with the internet was using a Unix shell account that I used to dial into using “Telix for DOS”. For browsing I had Lynx, for mail PINE, and for IRC it was some client called “irc” and so on. This was in the early 90s, maybe 1991 or 92.

Everything was text only, dial-up with 9600 baud, and it was glorious because before that all we had was BBSes (which were even more glorious in some ways actually).

I swear I am not crazy.

No, you are not. At least not based on what you said above, or maybe we both are crazy because I agree with you :)

are no longer the END USERS. […] The Redditors are now the PRODUCT.

I think this is the core issue I have with the current internet. I am not even rabidly anti-corporate or against reasonable commercialization. But the whole schtick nowadays is so ridiculous: Get users to your site and try to keep them only over there, make THEM generate your content, which primarily means users voluntarily revealing an astounding level of details about their lives and thoughts, and then sell all this information to whoever and / or manipulate your users for whatever nefarious political or commercial purpose.

And people are absolutely fine with all this >_<

I agree. Earlier today I popped in to lurk Reddit to see what’s going on, and as a treat I sorted on “Controversial” on the front page. Overwhelmingly, the users who are still on there do not want to go dark again. Like you said, they just do not care at all.

The issue is that not only do they not care, they do not understand what the protest is about and they do not even want to understand. They do not care for the site’s legacy, they do not care for what made Reddit attractive to begin with, they do not care for users and mods affected by Reddit’s proposed changes, they do not care that a handful of corporates should not have so much control over internet content. Nothing. They want their doom-scroll Reddit fix, that’s it and apparently lose their mind if that goes away even for a couple of days.

Most seem to feel that it’s mods power-tripping over nothing and if they have an issue with Reddit they should just leave. Problem solved. I hope as many mods there as possible just lock up their subs forever and leave. Nothing stops the remaining people from creating new subs even right now or from Reddit (the company) eventually reopening them and figuring out moderation and content.

As the others have mentioned, I found out about Lemmy through multiple posts on Reddit. So at least at the time, a few days back, mentions of Lemmy were not being blocked / banned.

About promoting now: I think what would be better is if the supportive sub mods at Reddit made a community (or sublemmy, or whatever it should be correctly called) here first, and then posted a link to it on their blackout page on Reddit.

All that being said I am not sure I want a lot of the existing Reddit horde to invade Lemmy, but I guess I can’t have my cake and eat it too.

I think the old (and new) Slashdot-minded people will continue on Lemmy from now on, while most of the others who are not interested in tech topics will go back to Reddit once the blackout is over.

Nah, over the years I have seen many discussions sites rise and fall, and you tend to get over it. Slashdot, Fark, Digg, and countless PHP-based boards for instance. I am happy that there is a real possibility that a decentralized mechanism for discussions is catching on again. To me it’s somewhat like Usenet back in the day, but prettier.