Also can’t forget gaming companies that have turned many modern games into Skinner-boxes.

I’ve noticed that some people do use other filters than “Hot” or they scroll back in smaller communities, because I’ll occasionally get comment replies to posts I made months ago. It’s cool to see.

Does the Active feed work this way?

I remember you! I see posts all the time and notice “Ah, it’s that Sag fellow again”

<3

Ooh, I’ll check this in a little bit this morning!

Thanks for the ping! This could be interesting…

That’s amazing, haha.

This is incredible timing. I just downloaded F-Droid for the first time this evening and thought “Wow, there’s so much here, I don’t even know where to start. I bet I could ask Lemmy for app recs.”

Opened Lemmy, saw this post.

Is this arguably anticompetitive and illegal?

I think a lot of creative types don’t get over that, but I know some start by doing it for themselves and then it’s just a bonus if anyone else likes it.

The Princess Bride! Sorry, I guess in my head it was inconceivable that everyone wouldn’t already know it.

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…and then switch to this instance without even leaving the page. It’s smooth as hell.

Cool idea, but I’d also worry that anonymous profiles would make Lemmy feel like 4chan.

Sometimes just having a public profile (even behind a made up username) is enough to make people act more courteous.

Well that’s just adorable

I think most people aren’t toxic, but the toxic ones always stick out. If you get 20 normal comment replies and one that was rude, you’ll probably remember that rude one more.

Same goes for anything that people have strong opinions about online - especially politics. The most extreme, hostile, and bizarre takes get a lot of attention and float to the top, which makes it seem like the majority opinion, when most people aren’t like that.