orbituary

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Did anyone try to return to reddit and notice it just didn't do it for you anymore?

So I’ve switched to lemmy since the reddit meltdown started, experienced quite some withdrawal symptoms, occasionally turned back to reddit, more often logged out than logged in. Now I am merely using Lemmy occasionally and by far not as often as I used reddit before. No more doom scrolling....

orbituary,

I went over for an article I found. Scrolled out of morbid curiosity. It’s just awful. Ended up commenting about it and was down voted back to hell, apparently where I’m told o belong.

orbituary,

Digging the proverbial hole with the shovel. (now, double down, OP.)

How much are link aggregator platforms struggling with the quality of the "general internet"?

It struck me recently that as the quality of content on the internet has arguably gone to shit, in the form of increasingly frequent ads plastered everywhere, paywalls or superficial/dumb blog posts or mainstream media articles, the basic idea of a link aggregator platform can naturally lose its quality, or struggle to maintain...

orbituary,

Neal Stephenson predicted this (of course). Google, reddit, and others in the cohort are effectively ‘shallow web,’ easily searchable and manipulated by SEO. As such, you get 10-15 sites with all the same content, reducing the quality of your searches and the overall quality of web content.

It’s an effort to get clicks and monetize.

There’s no coming back from it.

orbituary,

That’s in your head. I cannot think of anything Firefox won’t do for me. And if I came across something I needed chromium for, I would open it that one time. My privacy is worth that tiniest bit of effort.

As an independent computer consultant full time, I operate heavily through my browser for a good 60% of my work.

orbituary,

I never needed sleep to have spiders.

orbituary, (edited )

I’ve almost done 3 years in as an independent. Don’t do it if you don’t have multiple faucets providing gigs for you. I make 2x my FTE salary, but it ebbs and flows.

If you are not already connected, don’t do it.

Edit: added “3”. No time context before.

orbituary, (edited )

Sort of. I left FTE for this in July 2021. It’s feast or famine. You’re going to need a steady stream of jobs and the ability to say no, but that only comes after an abundance of saying yes to everything, sleepless nights of working your ass off, until finally it becomes steady.

It’s not for the faint of heart.

orbituary,

You don’t understand suicide or depression. You’re making a grossly crass statement, no matter what the man may have done in life.

orbituary,

PNW?

orbituary,

What does the logo for a Disney character have to do with libs?

orbituary,

I paid twice that in taxes here in the USA and I still don’t have proper health insurance. If I got sick, I would be destitute.

orbituary,

Congress won’t do that. If you remove a Justice for bad behavior, it opens up the door for Representatives and Senators to be removed on bad behavior.

They don’t want to be held accountable for anything.

orbituary,

None GUI. Just use a terminal!

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