It’s generally when you’re stuck in a loop of reading negative posts/articles. I think the phenomenon comes from how when you read a negative article/piece of news you feel down, so you want to scroll further in the hopes of seeing something positive to lift your spirits. But then of course it’s only more negativity, and so you keep going. And the algorithms of Twitter/Facebook knows this, so they don’t tend to help you find something positive.

I prefer Doom Metal.

I think alot of it relates to just scrolling through news and wanting more content/headlines. It’s not that users are necessarily seeking out bad news or “doom”, it’s just that, given the state of the world today <motions broadly>, that’s what a lot of the news ends up being. I think I often engage in “doomscrolling”, but I’m not doing it because I want to see bad news, I’m an information addict and I’m just trying to get as much content as I can. Reddit fed that habit well, but I’ve moved on from there. And it’s not necessarily a bad thing if Lemmy can’t feed that addiction, not seeing new content pushes me off and forces me back into the real world or on to other sites/apps. I’m fine with that, I hated my constant need to flip through Reddit whenever I was bored before.

It’s been a thing for a while, basically just mindlessly scrolling for hours on end on a neverending feed

Covid era when many people had nothing to do, were more worried and anxious than usual, and the internet seemed full of concerning and bad news. The term has never meant that much to me personally. I’ve only regular scrolled.

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i have what i imagine is a fairly unusual variation: my firstname.lastname is pretty common in the english speaking world, but my last name is apparently derived from a place if you go back far enough, so i use firstname.of.lastname. subtle but different.

I see exactly where you’re coming from but personally when making usernames I can never re-use one because I always feel like the next one I make is going to be “the one” and trump all of my pathetic previous attempts lol.

That urge to be better, to continue growing has entire life. Never satisfied. New vehicle? First thought is “how can I tweak it to make it better?” Then I begin tweaking with things and am happy. The second that I can’t find more things to tweak and feel that it’s as close to perfect as can be within my capabilities it becomes stale and I lose interest.

This is a cancer for my passion in writing lyrics as in my opinion art can NEVER be good enough. The more time you put into it, the better it gets and if a change I’ve made makes something worse I start from square one and begin again. I’ve been writing music for nearly my entire life but only ever actually recorded music in the beginning when it was just a hobby. Then I realized that it was something I could actually be good at and became serious. Haven’t recorded a single track since. I just write and write and write. Even when I make something beautiful, to me, that I made that? Just means I’m capable of making something better on the next page so the beauty is forgotten as soon as it was realized.

Sorry for the rant and personal details! Sometimes I use my comments as a means of introspection. Would just paste them into my notes app but I don’t. I leave them in the hopes that maybe someday someone can maybe help me figure myself out or at the very least not feel so alone if they are similar.

Have a nice day/night.

If you really need to have the same name in many services, it’s going to be really hard or even impossible. Having a nice and short name in one service is possible, because the name of the service adds some extra length to the whole thing. Just think of Lemmy names for example [shortName]@[InstanceName].[something]. The whole thing is actually pretty long, so making that unique is very easy.

I’ve had some success by asking them to unlock their phone and give it to me so I can read their messages and look at their photos. As they refuse, I tell them “but you just said you’ve got nothing to hide and you don’t care?”

Hell, we were training Google’s voice recognition back in '07 with GOOG-411

Not that I disagree much, but… what a world we live in where Meta is the lesser of two evils…

Zuck is not a lesser evil. He’s the same evil. And Jeffrey bezos this week is having a laugh because nobody’s paying attention to him at the moment.

As LTT said. Threads is the result of the Zuck flicking his tongue out and tasting blood.

But I mean we (society, not me, miss me with that) are still clearly subscribing to a social media site run by the lizard people and calling it an improvement.

Which says a lot.

Pretty sure all new users are required to have an Instagram? I know for sure the two are linked. No deleting Threads without deleting your Insta.

Instagram doesn’t already collect that?

What I’m hearing from your statement, is that we need a GDPR-like ruleset in every country.

If it makes you feel better, I probably understand Lemmy less well than you, so if you’re a misfit, so am I, lol. I see my role here as “someone to put words in the databases other people build.”

The danger here is that Threads will suddenly be > 99% of the activity and user base in one fell swoop. You might find that Mastodon doesn’t scale as well as you think. It might also be that Threads deliberately or half assedly doesn’t federate properly, so that being a non-Threads user means posts aren’t visible inside of Threads or suffer from down ranking or other issues.

I’d add that historically federation hasn’t gone well when a big fish enters a small pond. XMPP was cited above as an example of that. At the time you had proprietary services like AOL / AIM, ICQ, Instant Messenger. XMPP was going to liberate us from proprietary and even Google got on board for a bit before dumping it.

The problem with big companies is they want all the cake to themselves and abhor having to yield control or cooperate with others. Meta might make nice noises about ActivityPub while they’re the underdog to Twitter but you could see them rapidly change their tune if Twitter went under.

The point of “embrace, extend, extinguish” is primarily to get rid of any potential future competition. So, for example, it would not work if Facebook tried to do it with Twitter since the latter already reached critical mass and can stand on its own without outside help, barring bad leadership. It typically only works if the party that’s being “embraced” is smaller than the company that’s “embracing”.

To your point of ActivityPub being open source: that’s true, so Meta is, legally speaking, free to use it. However, barring any restrictions in the license, they’re also free to add any proprietary features to Threads that don’t work on Mastodon. It’s similar to Google Chrome: Google has their open-source Chromium web browser, but they also have a version called Chrome that has features that are not open-source.

The thing with Wine is that, from what I understand, it was made to help Windows software run on Linux. From the beginning, its primary intention was to help Linux users. Facebook’s primary intention is to get more money. If they believe extinguishing Mastodon will further that goal, they’ll do it. Unfortunately, I don’t believe Mastodon is big enough to make Thread users think they’ll be missing any significant amount of content if Facebook removed ActivityPub support.

IT’S JUST A FEW DECIMAL PLACES GIVE ME A BREAK 😆

while you’re correct based on instagram’s numbers, the other commenter would be correct if it was a British billion which is a million millions. just a fun fact 🦄

Right? Seems like he is off by a couple digits, unless we are missing something

Well, technically… they said “users”, not “people”. Maybe there are 2E12-1E8 bots… 🙃

It’s not hard to understand what was happening.

• I follow Person A and Person A follows me on Instagram
• Person A signs up for Threads before me
• I sign up for Threads after
• Because we already follow each other on Instagram, Threads automatically made Person A follow me

The issue with the EU is you can’t mingle and mix user data from two separate services.

“An account was already created for them” because it’s the same Meta account. You can just follow people when you start your account without them necessarily activating threads.

Sole benefit of Brexit identified. We get to hand over our data to meta before you guys. It’s all been worth it.

you forgot the other variable of spez/elon causing another controversy that reignites the interest tho

Lemmy is a completely different thing. It is a grassroots movement of geeks motivated by an ideal. It has some chance of having enough people “fueling the fire” while it grows slowly and, also importantly, it does not need to grow like crazy to survive. This contrasts with threads, which is an attempt by a big tech company to capture mainstream audience. The mainstream has the attention span of 5 seconds, forms an opinion and never goes back. Either it is immediately fun or it is a flop. Threads had the best possible shot, riding on the enormous unpopularity of Musk and being able to piggy back on the huge user base of Instagram. They took the shot, it didn’t work. The only way they can get a second shot is if another extraordinary event happens. I will admit that given the current tech leadership (and specifically Musk) this is not impossible, but otherwise I’m pretty confident in declaring Threads’ stillbirth.