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[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 9 months ago

Lemme guess, you're a kagi cultist.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 9 months ago

That is a search engine problem, not a lemmy problem.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 9 months ago (2 children)

search engines are thoroughly crap right now. Abandon all hope that they will become better.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 54 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (9 children)

Another social media site which followed the enshittification paradigm. This playbook has played out so many times until now. Start it with "good intentions" as a for-profit startup. People join and volunteer their time because the founders say all the right things and the site culture is so new and exciting. Once the site gets popular though, all the fancy talk from the founders goes out the window.

When will people learn this lesson? Don't ever volunteer your time on a for-profit proprietary social network. You will get rugpulled! We are all the value in all these sites. Why do we let them control our interactions, ffs?!

PS: Would be interesting to get a fediverse version of Quora. Or Maybe we can make something using Lemmy communities instead.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 9 months ago (6 children)

One thing that corporate social media struggles to understand is that not all the users have the same impact in a platform. It’s extremely easy to take a mildly unpopular decision that only pisses off 0.5% of your userbase, and the platform becomes ruined because that 0.5% were damn important.

Pretty much what happened with reddit which lost all its power users.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for this!

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 10 months ago (2 children)

We're watching The Thucydides Trap unfold in real-time

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The game is very very much rigged. Most concert halls for example won’t even agree to allow a band unless it’s signed with a record label. So even if you’re super popular on by giving away your music for free, the game is setup to force you into a contract.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 10 months ago

Sure, why not. Unfortunately I have enough on my plate already. However this doesn't need someone to host. Such a bot could easily run as a script on your PC.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It was a mention, so I got a notification ;)

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