This is just going to encourage even more spammy, low quality, easily consumable clickbait content.
Good luck, Steve.

Laws are threats made by the dominant socioeconomic-ethnic group in a given nation. It’s just the promise of violence that’s enacted and the police are basically an occupying army. You know what I mean?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmaoNLSHx_w

this is a clear case of hate crime that ended in murder

The kid fortunately survived.

The Reddit mods should walk, en masse.

Coordinate it, so they all walk at the same time. Nuke the automod rules too. Coordinate it off Reddit.
I want to watch the absolute garbage fire that would ensue if the mod teams responsible for moderating probably tens of thousands of rule violating posts every day just walked away.

I doubt it would ever happen because the people who do that job for free usually don't have much else going on. It's hard to walk away from the thing that gives you purpose, a sense of belonging to a community and a feeling of power, no matter how sad that might sound.

I wonder what it is that is keeping more diverse users away?

One aspect is that federation is definitely a bit harder to wrap your head around technically.

But I think another large contributor is the fact that culturally, the zoomers never really grew up with things like independent forums. I'm 33 and back in t the day it was very common for me to be signed up to many different forums for my different interests. Over time, I've seen the centralization of those communities, forums shut down and centralized services like Reddit, and lately Discord took their place.
I remember a time when the internet wasn't solely controlled by a handful of organisations, I can see the value in federated systems. But someone who only knows centralized services and walled gardens is likely to fear the wild, or at least won't value it as much.

//edit: Another thing to keep in mind, is that it's just very common for this demographic to be early adopters for tech products and platforms. I remember when Twitter started, and a large part of its early user base was people in their 30s or older who were very into tech, or journalists. The reason I started using Twitter towards the end of the 2000s was because most of the podcast hosts and regular contributors on the TWiT network were using it.
Seems to me that if you want to launch a social media platform, your early adopters are either guys who are into tech and in their 30s and 40s or teenage girls.

I’m not sure if it’s every ADHD person, but I have accidentally quit smoking.

If you can accidentally quit a physically addictive habit, things like brushing your teeth don’t stand a chance.

I had a look at my bank account, and it turns out I actually can't.

There was a time, maybe 8-10 years or so ago, when you would actually find good and well-reasoned answers from qualified people on there. But now it got so bad that I added Quora to my search results blocklist addon.

The Muskrat is the dumb man's idea of a smart person.
If he actually is the smartest man in a room, it's because the smart people got up and left because they got tired of his bullshit.

I'm taking bets on how long it takes for Google to remove those 1 & 2-star reviews because some automated review bombing algorithm kicks in.

Pretty much, yes. - Shodan user

I think the issue is that people nowadays have come to expect a certain degree of individualized feeds and discovery features.

There is probably plenty of content on mastodon that would be of interest to any given user, but the discoverability is kind of lacking - especially if you are used to Twitter's algorithmic feed.

People are already pissed, so why not push through a crazy privacy invading law.
What are the citizens going to do? Riot?

Eternal September is early this year.

It's a 50/50 split between Waldemar and Eugen.

I think it’s more just because we’re early adopters and the first wave of refugees.

Yes, and because there are some little hurdles in the signup process. Having to select an instance isn't really that big of a deal, but it will actually stop quite a few people.
The people who do make it through care or are invested enough to join and are less likely to shit the place up. It's a self-selection process.

Elon has trauma from being ousted as CEO by the board at x.com (the company that would later become PayPal).

He's living in the past.

Or many of the other games in the genre as long as they have auto-aim. Brotato and halls of torment are worth checking out, imo.

Funny you checked protondb for the previous ones, but not BG3 itself. It's out in early access, people have been playing the early acts for a while now.

It's rated gold. https://www.protondb.com/app/1086940/

I think generally speaking, you can make the distinction between something like lemmy/reddit and something like mastodon/twitter as putting interest/community first or putting the individual first.

Lemmy/Reddit is great if you want to follow a specific topic and don't necessarily care about what the individual users think. I don't know about you, but I barely ever read or acknowledge someone's username on those platforms.

Mastodon/Twitter is great if you want to follow specific people for their opinions. Like seeing what certain politicians or analysts have to say about developments in Ukraine. Things that might be interesting but not quite newsworthy, or putting news into a different context.
For any given interest you have, there are probably some voices who you care about hearing from more than others, be it just because you know them personally or because they are experts in their respective fields. Microblogging platforms are built to support that individual-first approach.