flashmedallion

I remember Armagetron always getting fired up at LANs when I was at uni, 2005ish

Growth for growths sake.

Not just at a platform level but at a community level too. Around 6 or 7 years ago I started to really notice people talking about growing their subreddits, making changes and tools designed to increase the subscriber count.

For what? There's nothing to gain.

The main subreddit I modded finally became impossible to moderate for quality when, despite our lack of "growth strategy", the influx of new users became too much for the communitys culture to persist and it slowly turned into a lowest-common-denominator topic-flavoured meme ghetto. And from the outside I saw many of my favourite subreddits fall to the same scenario.

So I would say, we should avoid or rethink the idea of growing lemmy for its own sake. Eternal September will come eventually, lets not rush it

Growth for growths sake doesn't help anybody

I'm enjoying Connect, it's very similar to rif which I've used for a long time.

It feels like reddit from ten years ago, and has the critical mass to make it interesting to open and browse. I think it's a success.

I only use reddit now on revanced rif to visit a couple of communities that are too small to be worth replicating here yet

Agreed, the data concern is a red herring. Might as well do a "I hereby revoke consent for Facebook to take my data..." post for all the good it will do you.

Block Threads because of the potential impact it can have on the quality of experience here. That's a good enough reason. Nobody joined a lemmy so that they could keep in touch with people who use social media to gossip about brands and influencers.

Direction yeah, great stuff.

Why he's still producing his own stuff after all this time is beyond me

I know, I know. Thanks for the pep talk though.

I'm keeping myself busy by looking for something to do in London with my brother on Friday since he will never have celebrated Matariki before

I think it's just a rebrand intended to avoid association with AliExpress by the average consumer. AliExpress isn't going anywhere.

Give The Drummer Some from Ultramagnetic MCs, and that whole album really.

I need loud music so that I can think

Going to be out of the country for a month and will miss Matariki, which feels kind of lame. It's such a great new celebration.

Currently filled with dread about our holiday, currently can't wait for for it to be over so I can stop worrying, and it hasn't even started yet. I'm sure I'll be fine once we get underway.

I'm not normally a worrier about this kind of thing but, the world just seems so shit lately and like something is begging to go wrong. Have a train transfer in Paris in a couple of weeks which may prove... exciting.