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  1. Comment on Confused, uncool, and nowhere to scroll: The internet has become hostile for millennials like me in ~tech

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    Is it “feature complete?” I thought Deimos had a lot of ideas he wanted to implement around a reputation system and community moderation that he hasn’t had time to get around to?

    Is it “feature complete?” I thought Deimos had a lot of ideas he wanted to implement around a reputation system and community moderation that he hasn’t had time to get around to?

    3 votes

  2. Comment on Confused, uncool, and nowhere to scroll: The internet has become hostile for millennials like me in ~tech

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    Yeah there’s a context collapse with social media. I used to maintain a “public facing” account that I wouldn’t mind employers seeing and then the stuff that my friends saw. But things revolving...

    Yeah there’s a context collapse with social media. I used to maintain a “public facing” account that I wouldn’t mind employers seeing and then the stuff that my friends saw. But things revolving around having a social graph made it so people started crossing the streams. So now instead of having specific groups that you show a specific face to everything collapses on one performative public persona.

    8 votes

  3. Comment on Confused, uncool, and nowhere to scroll: The internet has become hostile for millennials like me in ~tech

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    While scrolling through a lengthy photo dump of a friend’s recent paddleboarding excursion in Cornwall, I was hit by a wave of existentialism. The toxic dopamine spikes from social media that once jolted my soul were now gone. In its place was a heavy shame. “This place used to be sexy and fun,” I thought, while opening, closing, then reopening the Instagram app. “How pathetic it is to be a millennial social media addict.”

    Given the definition of a “millennial” encompasses both a 28-year-old Gigi Hadid and a 42-year-old Pitbull, it would be reckless of me to generalise the status of an entire generation. Yet due to fastidious research (scrolling until my eyes bleed) and my age group’s alleged predisposition to make literally every passing thought into a narcissistic melodramatic state of the nation essay, I can officially declare that millennials are done. Jettisoned. We have no place online in 2023.

    4 votes

  5. Comment on New users: Ask your questions about Tildes here! in ~tildes

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    Yeah the problem is you can't self-label your own posts as "joke" or "noise" so it relies on inflicting work on at least 1 other person. Like, I didn't even realize until I tried to mark my own...

    Yeah the problem is you can't self-label your own posts as "joke" or "noise" so it relies on inflicting work on at least 1 other person.

    Like, I didn't even realize until I tried to mark my own post as a joke earlier and noticed I couldn't.

    8 votes

  6. Comment on New users: Ask your questions about Tildes here! in ~tildes

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    To avoid bumping, it's probably best to just DM the person. But generally, if someone helped you out it's unlikely you'd need to go back to thank them 30 days later. The site will warn you if...

    To avoid bumping, it's probably best to just DM the person. But generally, if someone helped you out it's unlikely you'd need to go back to thank them 30 days later. The site will warn you if you're about to necropost when you open a reply window on an old thread. If it doesn't give you the "this is an old topic" warning nobody will mind you bumping.

    A "thank you for helping me" label might be a good feature request though.

    9 votes

  7. Comment on Welcome new reddit refugees in ~tildes

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    I was just making a joke about how people argue over the pronunciation of "gif." FWIW I pronounce Tildes in the Spanish way, with a soft T sound, with the tongue behind the teeth as in "this,"...

    I was just making a joke about how people argue over the pronunciation of "gif."

    FWIW I pronounce Tildes in the Spanish way, with a soft T sound, with the tongue behind the teeth as in "this," unlike the hard T sound in "tile") and a long E sound like the A in "day."

    4 votes

  8. Comment on The Digital Transportation Archive in ~design

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    Those joke posters are bleak. I think if he did this today he'd have had pictures of parking lots and highway interchanges instead which is, somehow, even more bleak!

    Those joke posters are bleak. I think if he did this today he'd have had pictures of parking lots and highway interchanges instead which is, somehow, even more bleak!

    2 votes

  9. Comment on Tildes invite session call to arms in ~tildes

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    My least wholesome comment: My most wholesome comment: I am confused hahaha

    My least wholesome comment:

    The cultural norms around vegetarianism probably came in from Jains rather than Buddhists actually. Other Buddhist countries are not vegetarian at all and even the Gautama Buddha is said to have died after falling sick from consuming bad pork.

    My most wholesome comment:

    I recommend Thermae Romae

    I am confused hahaha

    3 votes

  10. Comment on Tildes invite session call to arms in ~tildes

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    At some point in the past I made a habit of deleting my Reddit accounts because I had a near miss of a doxxing attempt. So I started to just delete and recreate accounts after a year or so as a...

    At some point in the past I made a habit of deleting my Reddit accounts because I had a near miss of a doxxing attempt. So I started to just delete and recreate accounts after a year or so as a way to avoid having too much identifiable information accumulating in the comment history.

    Which is to say, even the young accounts might be long-time redditors like me.

    2 votes

  11. Comment on The Digital Transportation Archive in ~design

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    A curated collection of images and documents from all modes of transportation: Planes, Trains, Automobiles.

    A curated collection of images and documents from all modes of transportation: Planes, Trains, Automobiles.

    3 votes

  13. Comment on Welcome new reddit refugees in ~tildes

  14. Comment on Welcome new reddit refugees in ~tildes

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    I found this funny, but my mind was too flooded with rage-inducing flashbacks to laugh.

    "Not my style, you should cook the onions for 24 mins not 23" comments.

    I found this funny, but my mind was too flooded with rage-inducing flashbacks to laugh.

    7 votes

  15. Comment on Welcome new reddit refugees in ~tildes

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    If you prefer, in iOS you can also just save the website to your homescreen. You just tap the sharesheet (box with upward pointing arrow) on the page in Safari and tap "Add to Homescreen." This is...

    I highly recommend trying the site as just a bookmark in your browser for a bit.

    If you prefer, in iOS you can also just save the website to your homescreen. You just tap the sharesheet (box with upward pointing arrow) on the page in Safari and tap "Add to Homescreen." This is functionally just a bookmark, but will autolaunch the page in Safari any time you tap it. I do this with Wordle but haven't felt the need to with Tildes since I tend to check this on my desktop.

    9 votes

  16. Comment on New users: Ask your questions about Tildes here! in ~tildes

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    To add, Deimos' design philosophy is for Tildes to be a place you drop in on a handful of times a day, see what's up, and leave. It isn't meant to be an infinite scrolling content-stream in the...

    To add, Deimos' design philosophy is for Tildes to be a place you drop in on a handful of times a day, see what's up, and leave. It isn't meant to be an infinite scrolling content-stream in the way Reddit or Twitter (or Lemmy or Mastodon) are. It's best to engage with it more like a community forum or bulletin board than a social media site.

    14 votes

  17. Comment on The revolt of the Christian home-schoolers in ~life

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    There is a lot of folklore among some communities that have deep roots where they are. Native American communities obviously do, but you'll find a decent amount around Appalachia and other places...

    There is a lot of folklore among some communities that have deep roots where they are. Native American communities obviously do, but you'll find a decent amount around Appalachia and other places as well.

    1 vote

  18. Comment on Reddit is going to enforce rate-limiting the API's free tier as well as charging for higher rates in ~tech

  19. Comment on Reddit is going to enforce rate-limiting the API's free tier as well as charging for higher rates in ~tech

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    Glad you have a handle on it. Take my energy if you need it. ༼ つ _ ༽つ. ༼ つ _ ༽つ

    Glad you have a handle on it. Take my energy if you need it.
    ༼ つ _ ༽つ. ༼ つ _ ༽つ

    4 votes

  20. Comment on Reddit is going to enforce rate-limiting the API's free tier as well as charging for higher rates in ~tech

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    The funny part is that you don't actually need to talk about any of that shit to get a user in. Users want content, they don't care how it gets there. I don't know why techies have this compulsive...

    The funny part is that you don't actually need to talk about any of that shit to get a user in. Users want content, they don't care how it gets there. I don't know why techies have this compulsive need to show everyone how they make the sausage. Some of us find that interesting, but most people do not.

    2 votes