I think there is something more sinister but thats another topic. Its not hard to see how America has really turned evil the last 10 years and its not just money. The mindset has completely changed.

Just be careful to not drive all traffic to only large instances, because then people who run smaller ones may not get enough users to keep doing it. How healthy will Lemmy be if everyone uses the same five instances?

Its already a bit of a problem with the large instances being so dominating.

Winter is beautiful. I take daily walks near the forest and it can be better looking than in summer.

The complexity of everything is just ridiculous now.

And its a moving target with constant new things to try and learn, as quickly as possible, while doing your already full time job.

I dont know. I think working in tech is definently mostly for 20-30 year olds now. When you have that desire to prove how smart you are, and the energy to learn everything.

The endless meetings and the return to office has also really killed a lot of good things about the job.

This seems like a battle he cant win.

None of us can win it. I already see tons of Ai channels on YouTube where machines are taking on the voices of celebrities and saying things from a script… And those channels actually get followers and make money.

So my conclusion is, these services will become more and more filled with ai bullshit and most users wont even care.

I predict, due to market forces, more than half of YouTube videos will be Ai generated in 2030. And most users will not mind it.

Hope the supreme court is happy to see the country lose everything that made it good in the first place.

Doesnt really work in practice. If a community exists on Lemmy world, you are not going to have success running the same community somewhere else.

Its just the nature of things. Even Lemmy is mostly centralized to large instances, despite its federated technology.

Yeah im currently on a sabbatical and I dont think I will go back to working in tech.

But ive been working with it for 25 years in different roles. Im just tired of seeing the same thing being reinvented again and again under different names.

I dont feel excited about micro services or AI or blockchain. Its just more and more complexity all the time and its exhausting, not interesting.

Also the culture has changed. It used to be a fun profession for figuring out how to write the code to solve something. Now its telling agents what to do, and pressure to always work hard.

It wasnt like that before. The company needed your skills and they couldnt push or replace people very easily. Which meant they treated you well and didnt stress you.

Yeah stuff like that. Or “where is bennet? He is letting off some steam”. :)

They are going to use Ai to moderate, lol… That will be fun to watch.

I also dont know what that means. They are all epic.

Yeah exactly, they dont have downvotes and any upvote also requires karma, so you cant just create new accounts and bot upvote things.

But yes, its also a much more mature audience at that site. Many are older computer nerds. Lemmy has some of that too though.

They also have a moderator that is full time working on keeping the site clean, so there is that.

But yeah, I really miss discussions where you see unpopular opinions and they are not downvoted, because I can handle seeing that. I may not agree and then I will just ignore or comment, not downvote it.

Without good moderation, it will turn into 4chan though. So yeah, the extremes are not good, have to be in the middle.

I dont think more users is very important. Its not going to make Lemmy change from mostly memes anyway.

The mentality of the largest Lemmy instances is still to moderate away opinions they dont agree with, so this place is never going to be good for any discussions where people disagree strongly.

Most users downvote what they dont agree with. Its a circle jerk echo chamber where we all agree or get downvoted.

But we can all enjoy memes together. :) Its kind of nice. Lemmy is chill and easy. Even kid friendly.

Ive seen people have their partner or their kids but no, not themselves.

On desktop, Firefox and ublock origin.

On android, Newpipe.

I dont see any ads ever.

I do see them in the official YouTube app so when I Chromecast, I have ads. Im ok with seeing a few ads when I chromecast to tv. Its not so common.

Dylan! You son of a bitch.

I mean, also look at how windows installs programs. Its like a 100 step process taking several minutes, because just putting the files where they need to be is just too simple.

Or the uninstall program, cant just remove the files, no… Need to run full installer backwards to remove all the registry entries and even reboot the system to get rid of it all.

God sometimes rolls the dice and goes… Oh.

What do you bench, bro.

If you want to be financially free, have no debt. Pay off any loans, dont have subscriptions. Make your monthly costs to be as low as possible.

That is freedom but its the opposite of what is advertised.