I know some things.

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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • Nobody wants to listen.

    When it happens it’s basically overnight. Like stretching a rubberband that you pull and pull and think it’s fine. Then you pull just a little bit too hard and it snaps. It will be impossible to put it together again.

    We are no more than a few years, maybe a decade away from the hottest countries being completely unlivable. We are talking about 2+ Billion people that needs to move in a very short time. It’s coming and coming quickly. We’re not ready. Billions will die.

    “The planet will be fine, it’s us humans that are fucked.” /Slightly paraphrased George Carlin.













  • Quality content creators are mostly gone from Reddit. Quality content submitters are mostly gone from Reddit. Quality content commenters are mostly gone from Reddit.
    So what’s left?
    Mods who think they have value and for some reason care about their /r , and working for free.
    Ads thinly disguised as posts. Bots spamming and upvoting those fake posts.
    And nobody important reading.

    The quality difference on lemmy/kbin is staggering. This is the perfect time to be part of it.
    It’s inevitable it will start to slide once critical mass of users have been reached though. I’m curious if federated and smaller instances will keep it agile and fresh and big corp influence free.