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Cake day: June 9th, 2023
  • QHC@kbin.socialtoJerboa@lemmy.ml•Dismissing already seen content ? A proposal (put user back in control of algorithmic content discovery and more)
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    1 year ago

    I would greatly appreciate any kind of feature to handle read posts, even if it’s entirely manual (for now).

    That said, I don’t have any strong opinions on how this should be implemented. I just wanted to say that the very fact we can have this kind of conversation out in the open is so exciting. Maybe in the very early days of Reddit or Twitter that kind of user feedback was appreciated, but the last decade of monolithic tech giants has been so depressing.

    The last week or two has honestly been my most refreshing and invigorating time on the web that I can remember since I got my first Gmail account back when it first went open beta.

  • QHC@kbin.socialtoTechnology@beehaw.org•The Reddit Blackout Is Breaking Reddit
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    1 year ago

    People switch behavior patterns for a reason. It doesn’t matter how good or bad either option is, most people won’t even be aware that switching to something else is an option until whatever they are currently doing fails to meet their needs in some way.

    We just saw this play out with Kbin and Lemmy. It wasn’t something inherent about them that suddenly increased the userbase. It was an external event. The Fediverse just happened to exist already, but if Huffman hadn’t gone on an ego trip then they probably would have stayed very small things for the forseeable future no matter how good the experience was.