Marketing is in large part what necessitates marketing to begin with.
A few genuine signals quickly become noise as everyone tries to be heard, demanding more and louder signals to stand out.
The idiom of "doesn't grow on trees" as a metaphor for scarcity falls apart when you realize that food does grow on trees yet is still very scarce.
Extremely not-fun fact: collectively, humanity currently produces more than enough food for every person. But a huge part of it is either wasted or inaccessible by people that need them, which usually results in them not going to anyone and being wasted, which is why we still have food scarcity.
What does the Hot sorting actually mean?
Right now I have my feed sorted by Hot. The sixth post in my feed is 19 days old, has zero comments, and one upvote. I’m struggling to work out what algorithm is deciding this is a Hot post
Hidden Gems: Unveiling Apps That Could Have Enhanced Your Experience Sooner?
There are a few noteworthy ones that have significantly enhanced my digital experience. Let me share them with you:...
WARNING: Lemmy Self-Hosters, There Have Been CSAM Attacks taking place against [email protected]
There have been users spamming CSAM content in !lemmyshitpost causing it to federate to other instances. If your instance is subscribed to this community, you should take action to rectify it immediately. I recommend performing a hard delete via command line on the server....
The prevalence of touchscreens has probably resulted in a decrease in average fingernail length
I feel like I used to see a lot of women with super long nails struggling to use their touchscreen phones. I’m sure at least some of them have chosen slightly shorter nails to make it easier.
Infinity for Lemmy is on F-Droid through IzzyOnDroid's repository now!
My favorite Reddit client Infinity has a Lemmy version now, it’s still heavily WIP (pre-release) but works like a charm already. A few hours ago IzzyOnDroid added it to his F-Droid repository so while it’s not in the official one yet, which isn’t that easy with a pre-releases app and only updates weekly, you can install...
Clients, A Client’s Worst Enemy
https://i.imgur.com/gQZqlut.jpg
Why are people saying that Lemmy is free of corporate interest?
Can’t a corporation just enter the space whenever they want to? Can’t they start or even buy out larger instances? Even if Lemmy does take off, wouldn’t this inevitably happen anyway if the space gets popular enough?
What is the device you want, but that does not exist?
I would love the child of a Surfacebook with a Framework laptop; or A bare keyboard attached to a screen, that I could plug my phone (possibly running Phosh) and use it as a hardware for a laptop experience
The next time you are trying to get one more thing into your suitcase, remember that the entire universe once fit into a pinpoint. So, it'll fit.
There is no limit to what can fit in your suitcase if you are ok with creating a singularity.
Proof that Regex is Hate Speech!
https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/5e6a5c03-a817-4684-91fa-c20254359211.png
What’s the funniest internet argument you’ve ever read?
Inspired by this Jon Bois video where body builders argue about the number of days in a week....
Does the US have zero employee protection laws??
Just following on from this: lemmy.nz/post/1134134...
What happened to NSFL?
Back in the day, on other forums than this one, there were tags to differentiate between porn (nsfw) and gore (nsfl). This was nice for people browsing new that had no problem seeing tits, but wanted to avoid degloved hands....
Are attention spans actually shortening?
So a view I see a lot nowadays is that attention spans are getting shorter, especially when it comes to younger generations. And the growing success of short form content on Tiktok, Youtube and Twitter for example seems to support this claim. I have a friend in their early 20s who regularly checks their phone (sometimes...
using gpu with linux experience
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Do you donate to Wikipedia? Why or why not?
Every so often I give a few bucks(far less than the worth of knowledge I got from it)
Would dinosaurs be white meat or red meat?
Could you eat one tartare?
Idea: fediverse of ecommerce. Time to dethrone amazon and ebay. What do you think?
Buying from an alternative ecommerce site usually sucks: you have to register for every website, enter your address, payment information and other information, they may leak data or store it improperly, you may not know the reputation of the website or business, you can’t easily compare products with other vendors and more....
A friend of mine says they don’t wanna “yuck my yum” whenever they’re about to trash something I like and it infuriates me, mildly
Anyone else?
Adobe tells you to use Chrome, not Firefox
Friend gave me access to his Adobe account (I’m never giving Adobe money again), and it looks like they don’t even support Firefox. That means I’m not using even the one remaining browser-based Adobe service that’s left....
Why do people say that "return to office" is about raising commercial real estate prices?
A lot of times, when people discuss the phenomenon of employers ending work-from-home and try to make their employees come back to the office, people say that the motivation is to raise real estate prices....
The simplest guide to pirating games on Linux
This post will guide you on how to install and run pirate releases of games on Linux. Basic knowledge (how to install stuff, get around files, opening the terminal) is assumed....