[-] Maxcoffee@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

I tried it out but I didn't really like it that much. It seems to be good for most people though.

[-] Maxcoffee@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Go to the doc and get checked out. It could be anything from cancer to an anal fissure.

Even if it's not life threatening it will slowly get worse and the surgery to fix it if it does is one of the most painful experiences you can have. Better to address a hemorrhoid or fissure now using the various creams you can apply yourself rather than that.

[-] Maxcoffee@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago

No. My time is worth more than 10k and I'd rather spend it doing stuff I like to do.

[-] Maxcoffee@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago

Most people won't gel with the free version though as it uses ASCII.

[-] Maxcoffee@kbin.social 143 points 1 year ago

The challenge will be finding an actual traditional conservative instance that isn't also a pro-Nazi fascist shithole.

[-] Maxcoffee@kbin.social 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

People are paid to work on it tho.

Paying people doesn't necessarily translate to what you might want from it.

[-] Maxcoffee@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

No no no it's just China doing you a solid and backing up your sensitive information just in case you lose your phone. It uses Blockchain technology where if you ever need it back they just block you.

[-] Maxcoffee@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

I don't hate anybody but I do hate their random bad takes and opinions on things and I don't care about their families either.

[-] Maxcoffee@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Personally I don't care about the soccer moms, my main concern is all the problems that come with being a mainstream social media platform. Threads threatens to overwhelm the content being generated with all those problems where your Lemmy feed is just going to represent Instagram etc again. Screw that.

[-] Maxcoffee@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago

They can keep their 60 million threads, most of that is complete trash anyway.

[-] Maxcoffee@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

Here's the thing: typically I'm not going into a discussion on social media with the aim to change people's opinions or even to argue with them.

But what ends up happening is that they immediately assume it's a bad high school debate and things quickly devolve into bad faith arguments, attempts to nitpick and just general toxicity.

[-] Maxcoffee@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

I don't know if you've seen the official phone app for Reddit but its an even worse version of that. There's no "hot" etc of your subscribed subs, rather it's now a firehose of whatever the algorithm thinks will piss you off enough to interact more with it.

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Reddit used to be a great platform to discuss some topic and get different points of few in a friendly but factual manner. However, slowly it seems like the platform has become a lot more like Facebook, where it's been invaded by toxic people that are constantly looking for opportunities to shit and hate on others.

The change has been gradual so I really didn't notice it creep up on me. It's become super evident now having used Kbin and others for a week or so where people generally seem to be more friendly again and willing to actually discuss things in a usually civil way.

The difference is stark too. Today I replied to a comment saying that I hope things turn out better for them and wound up in a weird comment chain about how people were apparently insensitive for wanting to get a basic haircut that they for some reason couldn't afford themselves. Meanwhile, Kbin and the Fediverse feels like a refreshing place to actually converse with people once you get past the clunk and figure it out.

I think Reddit may well have reached that main stream social media saturation point where it very objectively now sucks. It happened originally with the internet itself thanks to the rise of the smartphone and this is just another iteration of it. I feel like Spez might as well get that bag at this point because they've ruined what used to be the platform people went to for social media without the bullshit, without algorithms to drive "engagement" and to avoid the toxic culture that has prevailed.

Thanks for reading my rant.

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