[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Not sure my contribution is of any value to you, but I am a gay male in my 50's. Never did much in terms of skincare. Only washed my face with water and was a heavy smoker up till about 15 years ago. Up until I started tuning bald people estimated my age to be 10-15 years younger. So I personally think genetics is the biggest determining factor. That said. I started using hyaluronic acid about a year ago because of dry skin, and it does SEEM to make the few wrinkles I had appear less and make my skin more firmer. All in all, I think some skincare helps a little bit, but never expect big changes or improvements. Most of it is just (bad) luck. I would at the very least never buy products that are ridiculously expensive. The cheap ones work just as well, just make sure you read the ingredients. This is just my personal, anecdotal experience and opinion ymmv

[-] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago

Is he scraping the barrel or just short of loose change?

[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

I just don't understand why mods form big, popular subreddits don't switch over to lemmy/kbin/whatever? If it is sunk cost fallacy that is irrational. They have a big following, all they have to do is say "hey guys, we are moving to another site. Go to sign up." If it is because (as some people suggest, not me) they are power-hungry mods and fear losing that power, it is also irrelevant since they can host their own instance and have all the power they want. If they could organize a blackout, surely they can organize an exodus? What am I missing?

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

At some point in the future, everyone who is currently alive, will be dead and the earth will be populated with people who do not exist yet.

Since I was born when my parent were in their late 30's. And my father was as well, so my paternal grandfather was born in the 1890's. When I was a kid he told me stories of his childhood. I was only 9 when he died, and at the time his stories were just that; stories. Now (I'm in my 50's) I wish I had asked him things about those times. He was born and grew up in a world (mostly) without electricity, and without cars, phones, etc.

He was someone from a totally different world, and I knew him.

Added later: He was born "only" 129 years ago, everyone alive then, is now dead.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

You know... I don't understand why AI would need access to an API. Can't they just crawl the web? HTML5 was designed with AI in mind iirc. But I'm no expert so I'll probably talk bs here.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

'the best' is subjective. Yes, tumblr still exists and perhaps has a second life. But the spirit of the old tumblr is gone. Same applies to Reddit. It's not the name or the site that died but its personality. Twitter is a good example. It died a few years ago, slowly. It is still around but what made twitter twitter is no more. It changed, it has another atmosphere and other types of users. It is still called twitter but that is like a son who has the same name as his father. Two different persons.

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submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

We just don't smell the rot yet. It's not about the actual body (website) and the name. It is about the spirit, the personality. And that has been compromised and killed off because of factors one could call enshittification or whatever. Digg and Tumblr still exist, at least in name, but not in spirit. I think Reddit has past that threshold. It will be a slow death and I am not sure the fediverse will fill the void it leaves behind. But I do think and believe communities will never sustain on venture capital.

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submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Sorry if this is obvious, but I fail to find where I can donate to fmhy. I see the support button on top, but that donates to lemmy if I'm not mistaken? How/where do I donate to you guys directly?

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Hmm. So how about: "Tired of ads? Reddit wants to show them to you. Come to Lemmy, we are friendly and you are welcome!" I am willing to commit 100 euro if anyone can make that happen.

[-] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

I'm in. Anyone got a catchy idea?

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It’s up in the air how many will stay and how many will slowly forget their outrage at Reddit and go back.

If I wasn't already that truth would make me depressed.

[-] [email protected] 67 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Here's hoping. (yeah, I'm an unreasonable, hateful bitch. I despise what they did with the Apollo dev (and others) and I hope it bites them in the arse.)

[-] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm not up-to-date with the latest in accessibility, but does lemmy cater for those who need assistive tech? (just curious)

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Still trying to find my footings. The thing I miss most is active engagement. The comment sections sometimes feel so empty. But I will give it time. All in all, I find the experience better than I anticipated. Using wefwef on my phone and the instance-site on my desktop and laptop. I am sure a decent app will be developed in time.

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submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

With Reddit, and perhaps also Twitter. Personally I deleted my accounts on both platforms and came here today, because I feel it was the moral thing to do. And I hope both platforms will burn down, and the new way forward is more community-driven social media instead of capitalist-driven. But realistically I think both will just slowly get worse in terms of quality (well, twitter doesn't have much quality content for a while now anyway) and muddle through for a while. In the end it could go either way I think? What are your thoughts on where those platforms will end up, realistically?

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