Then ask her to explain some current meme. Skibidi toilet? C’mon, do you honestly even want to know what that means? We’re too old for that crap.
🚽 😠 vs. 📺 👍. The epic of our times. It might not be what we wanted, but it's what we deserve. 3/10, complete brain rot, I heavily recommend it.
I'm almost 40yo. I got a few good ones explaining stuff to my nephew, who's now 16:
In this context "politics" clearly conveys "things directly related to governments, such as wars, elections, or socio-economical ideologies". It is only a subset of the definition of politics that you're probably using, something like "things direct or indirectly related to human groups and their conflicts of interest".
We got a whole Lemmy to talk about Israel vs. Hamas, late stage capitalism, elections etc. We could - and should - have at least one community to chill and talk about other stuff, and without that rule we won't have it. For example without that rule 99.99999% of the content as of late 2024 would be about Trump, as if Americans didn't have multiple communities to talk about it already.
The userbase is small but stable.
I agree that Reddit will become irrelevant to internet power users. However, I disagree that it takes a massive fuckup to lose the critical mass of users.
A simple way to explain this is to imagine that everyone has an individual "I'm pissed and I leave" threshold; if a platform displeases a user more than that threshold, they leave.
For power users, this threshold is really low, so they ditch platforms like Reddit faster. However, that does not mean that the others aren't getting displeased - they do; it might not be enough to convince them to leave, but it quickly piles up with other things displeasing them.
As such, even a large platform can lose that critical mass of users over time, even without a massive fuckup. It's just about small things piling up.
Another thing to consider is that power users are more important to a platform than the rest of the userbase, because the power users interact with the platform more. And they're typically the ones doing janny crap, or finding and sharing content, or that actually have anything meaningful to add instead of "lol lmao". So once the power users leave, the platform becomes less desirable for the others too, and that's recursive - as the power users leave, the almost-power users leave too, then the ones after them, so goes on. And there the critical mass goes down the drain.
My guess: there won't be a specific date that you can poinpoint and say "Reddit died here". It'll be a slow decline, with small outbursts of re-engagement. Something like this:
Profit will follow a similar pattern, as both things are intertwined.
Ginger with turmeric? Now that's something I need to try. Thanks for the rec!
Ginger. But only because I refuse to call yerba mate "tea".
I wish that it was darin (darling). It rolls off the tongue so much better.
I don't think that handedness plays a huge role. I think that in some cases it's simply random, and in other cases it's "we write in this direction because that's how we learned it".
Inkwriting exists since at least the 2500 BCE, it was already used with hieroglyphs, and yet you see those being written left to right, right to left, boustrophedon, it's a mess. Even with the Greek alphabet, people only stopped using boustrophedon so much around 300 BCE or so.
Plus if it played a role we'd see the opposite of what we see today - since the Arabic abjad clearly evolved among people who wrote with ink, that's why it's so cursive. In the meantime the favourite customary writing medium for Latin was wax tablets, where smudging ink is no issue:
Just tested it. It works.
Alt-text: «God was like, "Let there be light," and there was light.»
Easier: n(13-n).