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/r/BuyFromEU: "Let's settle the Reddit alternative discussion: Lemmy doesn't need to โ€œbeat Redditโ€, it needs to feel effortless" (old.reddit.com)
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[โ€“] Nangijala@feddit.dk 7 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I'm dumb as a fucking brick and yet here I am.

There literally is no excuse if I can figure it out. The only excuse I see is that people just don't want to leave the comfort of reddit and go here and actually put in the effort to build this place. Which btw isn't super hard either. You can make or comment on posts of you're a tech retard like I am. That is a way to keep the pulse of this place alive.

I think people would do themselves a favor if they just admitted that they don't want to change because of the comfort of the big tech platforms and how they feed you endless entertainment without you having to make any effort.

If I feel Lemmy is dull, it is my own fault for not adding to it. If I don't have anything to add, I'll have to deal with Lemmy being boring for a day or two and in the meantime I do something else.

I think the scariest part about mainstream social media and part of why I cut the chord, was because it turns you into a mindless zombie. I still deal woth someone of the effects of it. The fear of boredom. It's such a destructive thing I allowed to do to my brain and it'll take me a minute to learn to be bored again. Already much better now than I used to be, but fuck. The level of lazy social media lures you into is scary.

[โ€“] Furbag@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago

I actually kind of like a slight amount of friction to signing up. Making a lemmy account takes almost no technical effort. Being able to understand what an instance is and which one is suitable for an individual user can be easily demystified with a cursory Google search, or even asking a shitty AI chatbot.

The only excuse is that it's harder to do that than it is to make an account on reddit or tiktok or whatever.

A big part of what made web 1.0 special, imo, is that everyone had a baseline technical competency in order to access the web and understand what they needed to do to visit certain websites. It wasn't an extreme barrier, and someone who was determined could parse out the steps required with no formal instructions whatsoever. But the app economy ruined all of that and made everything ultra-accessible. Social media just preyed on that lazy mindset to keep users engaged with their algorithms forever.