Honestly, PieFed solves so much of that - like combining all comments across all cross-posts, and Topic Feeds, which are user customizable and shareable, and showing the sidebar text with all the rules and such below each and every post in a community, not only on the community page itself, plus adding flairs (user and post), polling, a true blocking ability for all users from an instance, blah blah etc. but the chief thing is that it keeps growing so quickly. Python is just that much easier to code in than Rust, I suppose, or else the devs are just super good (or both?:-).

I lost hope for Lemmy long ago and almost decided to leave it, even if there was nowhere else to go. I am so glad to have found PieFed.

Even then if I want to learn about certain things that are barely talked about here, I have to go back to Reddit. I lurk now but that is where the people have decided to share their content, so if I need specifically it then that is where I need to go to read it.

A very concise description, wonderful! 👍

And it keeps getting better with each passing week! The pace of development on Lemmy seems outright stagnant in comparison.

Then wait till you hear about v1.2…

There’s a massive backlog of awesome stuff that really needs to be released so I’ll be doing that within the next week or two.

- Rimu, the primary dev of PieFed, roughly a week ago…

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So totally normal headline then, in these modern times? 🤨

Unfortunately I think the rage aspect is likewise biological, it being one of the most basal of all human desires. It often pops up as someone pursues pleasure and having satisfied those desires, next turns to the even more basal ones below that (e.g. video). Which makes sense evolutionarily bc those apes that do it are more likely to survive than e.g. complete pacifists.

That said, algorithms that specifically tap into that aspect of our animalistic desires feed forward that cycle, encouraging an ever-increasing amount, just like echo chambers decrease the allowable diversity of opinions (yes even here: just try saying that you like Windows and watch what happens, or that you enjoy driving a car, or eating meat, or in certain corners of Lemmy that you don’t support Russia, China, or North Korea hard enough), and both of those combine to form the modern social media experience.

So, as with anything having a biological basis, I doubt that it will ever truly go away entirely, yet I do believe that it can be managed.

And I comment for lives like that so you are welcome 🤗

We appreciate you 😊

When people share they often receive highly negative feedback. Peraps a misspeling or an incorect punctuation And when that outweighs the good responses, either numerically or severity speaking, then it has an effect to curb the desire to post.

Also why bother working hard when someone else will just respond to what you wrote with “I know you are but what am I” or “that’s what your mom told me last night”, and receive 10x more likes than the content that required actual effort.

It is the same reason that such drivel has taken over television and movies, and fast food places abound around the world - people sell what others will buy, even independently of involvement of actual money and rather of attention.

A fantastic article describing this phenomena: https://medium.com/@max.p.schlienger/the-cargo-cult-of-the-ennui-engine-890c541cebcb. TLDR it’s a race to the bottom. Lemmy was supposed to be different, but there were too many structural issues and now people are either leaving or or going more to quiet consumption mode. PieFed offers me more hope to help fix things, if people want to put in the effort required, because now at least the burden of making changes has been greatly lessened with its ability to make code changes more quickly (since it is written in Python rather than Rust).

Thank you for your service:-)

Oh look, now we are talking with you too ☺️

Proceeds to continually edit the post every five minutes for the next ten years…

It is indeed coming - hopefully soon!

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Thank you🤩