An introspection on why bother to write a blog.

I cannot see comments made by lemmy.world instance when logged in to discuss.online. Not sure if any other instances are affected this way. I also cannot search some communities. I have not figured out a pattern. I wonder if it is intentional. Here is an example: https://discuss.online/post/202378. There are a few comments under the post, but I do not see them.

The fastest growing app will have the worst retention rates.

Imagine a world where all users are the same, regardless of social network. Imagine that if 1000 users start using a social app on day 1, that only:

• 900 of them will be using it on day 2
• 800 of them on day 7
• 600 of them on day 30
• 500 of them on day 365

Now imagine if network A hasn't grown in 5 years, but has 100MM users. Network B is doubling every 2 days, and is currently at 100MM users.

Which will have worse retention?

https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/110720363135775822

It seems that there are at least 30 Million people that want a different experience than me.

Forbes described the Threads service with the following summary:

The most significant difference between the two platforms is the timeline, as Meta’s app only displays an algorithmic timeline—in a similar vein to Facebook and Instagram—and offers no option for a Twitter-like reverse chronological time showing the most recent posts.

The algorithm-driven timeline also displays posts made by accounts that the user does not follow—something that Twitter only restricts to its alternate “For You” timeline.

Threads is a mobile-only experience at the moment and users can only make posts, write comments and follow people on the platform’s mobile app, unlike Twitter, which allows all of this on its website as well.

Meta’s official blog announcing the launch of Threads also makes no mention of a native desktop or web browser experience, which is currently limited to seeing people’s posts and their profile pages.

Hashtags—a key element of Twitter’s identity and a feature that has permeated other social platforms including Facebook and Instagram—are not present on Threads, as the platform does not allow users to search for specific content.

This means that there is no “trending section” on Threads and the only way to discover content on the platform is based on what Meta’s algorithm decides to serve.

Are there any communities missing from Lemmy that you'd like to have started?

Or

Are there communities on federated instances you wish existed here?

Please let me know if you said yes to either of these questions! I'd love to get them started here. I can either help you do it, or I can start to build it up.

I'm hoping to grow this community, and part of doing that is as simple as asking you what you want.

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What are you doing today to celebrate?

Grilling and fireworks for me today.

Why do you lurk?

I used to be a lurker when on Reddit. I'd post here and there but mostly just kept to myself. It was because something as large as Reddit felt like shouting into the void.

On Lemmy, the communities are small, and so are the instances. Is it lack of something to say, anxiety, or you're a bot? What's up!

I find myself being way more active on Lemmy & Mastodon than on Reddit & Twitter.

A lot of you are new to Lemmy and the fediverse. You might have some questions about it, about me, or about discuss.online and it’s sister site utter.online.

Ask me anything. I’ll be watching this thread all day today: June 30th, 2023.

cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/860118

For better or worse the iPhone hit the market today 16 years ago changing the world forever.

DON'T YOU GET IT! 🙃

Before you may have seen the new dark theme, I've updated the default theme to the new light theme.

Did you know in your user preferences, you can change which theme you use?

Which do you prefer? Which should be the default for the site?

I think the light should be the default for accessibility. Those that want dark can change it.

Let me know!

I feel like it could become a double KO situation

cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/764388

All these companies are just ruining what drew people to them in the first place.

It's like they are trying to irritate people into canceling their accounts.

Imo, this one might actually be worse than the account sharing and cause people to quit. As soon as you have people messing around with their subscription version, it's all too easy to just say "nah, I actually don't want this anymore".

cross-posted from: https://kbin.social/m/technology@beehaw.org/t/83649

A warning and a perspective from an insider who has been through this before.

I’ve been using Lemmy a lot over the past two weeks. I’ve come to understand it and the fediverse. I understand the pros and cons. I kno how I want to improve it and I know what keeps people away.

How do you all feel about it? I wonder how many people create accounts not knowing what it is and then just abandon them.

Is anyone having trouble finding a community they fit well in? Or just trouble in general finding communities?

I think there are a lot of tools that can be added to help improve discovery and navigation. Thankfully, we are very close to a new release of Lemmy. I think the devs have v0.18 in testing. It has a much better UI and other tools.

Thinks will get better. But I would say I’m pretty happy with it as it is.

cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/165022

hariette@tech.lgbt - #kbin + #lemmy app is coming along. Here's a preview of the upcoming beta. This is less than a week’s worth of work,  so it’s only up from here 😉

Based on polls, looks like Artemis is winning for the name. Which is a great tribute to #ApolloApp 🙏

Stalk my work and suggest ideas in the app's Discord server (link in bio).

#kmoon #kbinapp #ios #android #Threadiverse

How will we able to tell when AI has became conscious when we can't even come to an agreement on this topic?