Bold of you to assume they can walk

Kid named Substance:

Ultimately, we need to tip people in the short term to keep them afloat until we can work with them in the long term to get America to the standard that most of the rest of the world takes, where tipping is a special case scenario only for exceptionally good work, and never to be needed or expected.

No, those are reds.

Those are clearly oranges. You can tell by the color.

Did people actually change what they’d say based on whether or not they thought they’d get upvotes? I always just said what I wanted and used the karma to determine how popular of an opinion it was, so pretty much exactly how Lemmy works now. I don’t think I ever looked at my overall account karma on Reddit.

Yeah, I’m old enough to think that these aren’t that old.

I didn’t get the sense that they’re saying China’s the sole reason for pollution - we all understand that it’s an issue globally - that article is just showing an example of how, instead of fixing the problem, the powerhouse countries of the world are doubling down on pollution.

I just don’t understand what you mean by “good enough to replace Reddit.” Reddit is a space for a community to grow, one that has shown itself to be toxic.

When you have a farm and find the soil to be toxic, you don’t keep growing new crops on it, you start over in a fresh field with new seeds that grow into a new farm. Yes, your yield will be significantly smaller for a good long time at first, but that’s just the effort required to keep a healthy farm.

That’s what’s “good enough to replace Reddit,” and why Reddit itself isn’t good enough anymore; it’s not about the content the community makes, it’s about the safety and the security of the space in which the community grows. The content is just the byproduct of that growth.

As for what you can do to help it grow, sure, most people can’t run their own community - myself included. But if you have the time to comment on this post, you have time to comment on a post from a growing community with only a couple active users, and maybe make a post every so often.

That simple effort means now that community has a third active user, which paves the way for a fourth, and fifth, and so on. It’s not hours worth of work, it’s really just the same effort you’ve already shown in this one thread.

I loved my small community subreddits, which is why I’m trying to grow them here. Reddit has shown that it doesn’t care about its users, which means that sooner or later those small subs will need to go elsewhere or be trapped on a site that just continues to get worse for its users. If you actually care about the communities you’re a part of, and not just about the content they produce for you, then help grow and uphold them here.

Really? I left on blackout day and haven’t been back. I thought that was normal.

Inspiration isn’t the same. It’s more like if I found a bunch of pictures I liked, then traced my favorite parts from each one onto a single piece of paper to make one image made up of lots of small copied pieces of other people’s work.

It’s new, but not original. With the recent influx of AI content that doesn’t seem to be slowing down, I’d say we should make a new designation of GC - generated content.

I think that achieving space colonization will only happen if we bring this world to the brink of destruction and the 5 people with all the money at that time decide to spend it all to escape. If we do achieve harmony it’ll be after those guys have already left to go destroy another world, and those left behind who survive the millennia of desolation as the world falls apart and puts itself back together again finally get the picture and treat their home with respect. And even then all it’ll take is one self-centered, power-hungry person being born for the exploitation to come back again.

I dunno, man. A species using up all the resources available in its isolated home, only to develop the ability to use those stolen resources to go to other nearby bodies and use up their resources as well… Makes me think of a virus. If that’s how our species survives, I’d rather we didn’t.

I don’t want our whole identity to just be anti-Reddit. We should be called whatever feels most natural to say, rather than some less-fitting word with an unintuitive meaning we’d have to explain all the time. Yes, we were mostly all brought here by a common ostracization from Reddit, but we’ve got plenty of other content to provide to this site than just that shared sentiment. Plus, if this site is going to be successful, it’ll need to grow a lot more, so it won’t have this strong of feelings toward the site pretty soon.

I find playing Nintendo games is always best on Nintendo systems. I use a hacked 3ds for all my handheld games including Gameboy, a hacked Wii U for Gamecube, Wii, and Wii U games, and a hacked Switch for everything else.