The TikTok ban law also applies to other apps owned by TikTok’s Chinese parent ByteDance, like Lemon8. ByteDance could be betting that regulators and app store companies are so focused on TikTok that they won’t pay attention to its other apps

If this actually happens it’ll be the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard.

I have an energy limiting condition and need to manage my energy appropriately. These things massively help.

Hasn’t that endgame been pretty much reached?

Our billionaire

I never said they did. Just that they tended to be more correlated with quality than downvotes or replies.

Wait I shouldn’t trust them. I’ve fully switched to them as self hosting on my ancient device is too slow and i dont wanna use anthropic or openai frontends because I don’t trust them via data.

But there are ways to better incentivse it.

Ie. the default lemmy sort “active” takes replies, upvotes, and downvotes as “activity” and promotes posts that get a lot of any of them. This tends to promote controversial content.

If you sort by top, its instead only based on upvotes and the sort promotes less divisive and controversial stuff and more “quality” stuff.

Just look it up.

It’s like being blind: a lot of blind people can still see but not well.

Or using a wheelchair, a lot of people in wheelchairs can still stand short periods or walk short distances, but have a very short limit.

ETC

Society oversimplifies these things to be binary, but in reality they are a spectrum.

Huh, as someone who became deaf later in life, and thus still have the “internal monologue”, good question!

Capitalism absolutely contributes to the loneliness crisis. Firstly, it creates a culture of individualism, making it all about “every person for themselves” rather than fostering a sense of community or collective well-being. Stable, long-term jobs that used to provide social connections are being replaced by gig work and precarious employment, leaving people isolated and too burned out to build meaningful relationships outside work.

On top of that, capitalism pushes this idea that happiness comes from products instead of building connections. Social experiences are even commodified now—like dating apps and paid meetups—so relationships feel more like transactions. Cities, designed for profit, don’t help either. You’ve got people crammed into apartments, commuting for hours, all in their individual cars or with their headphones on, and barely interacting with their neighbours. Public spaces that encourage connection are underfunded or replaced with malls and shopping centres.

And then there’s the way capitalism shapes cultural perception of mental health. Capitalism treats loneliness and isolation as individual problems, with solutions like therapy apps and self-help books (ie. profitable industries) rather than addressing the systemic issues that cause them. Even social media, which could foster connection, is driven by algorithms that push engagement over genuine interaction, leaving people feeling more disconnected after hours of scrolling.

At the end of the day, capitalism is profit over people. It’s no surprise that in a world focused on production, consumption, and competition, we’re all feeling so alone. The link between capitalism and alienation is well studied in social science.

I’m not sure how useful the term “male loneliness” is. There’s a crisis of loneliness in every sex and gender, it’s a side effect of capitalism.

EDIT: spelling error.

Looks interesting. But I don’t see what the point is unless you connect to fediverse or can attract a critical mass to keep it self sustaining.

Who did they steal from? How did they steal? I never used them but didn’t they provide coupon codes or smth?

Really cool. Thanks for the share. Also quite depressing, most countries (even rich ones who have like triple responsibility) are barely even trying.

Can someone ELI5 what honey was actually doing?

I still dunno how to make sense of the Lib Dem’s manifesto was further left than labour’s in the last General Election.

So it’s like a torrent streaming service?

Whats the main difference with Jellyfin?

if money = power then liberal (democracy) = oligarchy

Obsidian is decent, but it’s not FOSS, and unless you pay for sync and have a small number of extensions, it really doesn’t work well on phone.