Crypto? no. NFTs? yeah pretty much.

Bored Apes have dropped around 3/4 of their value over the past year. They’re still worth over $60,000, but anyone that bought them, or any other NFT, over the past year has taken a massive hit.

The real question is whether NFT prices will cycle with bitcoin when crypto prices spike back up or not. Crypto has always had crazy peaks and dumps, and that pattern will probably continue, but I think NFTs are just going to go to zero. There’s no real reason for crypto, so speculating on a thing that has no value that’s based on a thing that has no value is real dumb.

They only reason I started using hotels again is because my fiance gets good deals and they usually upgrade us because she works in the industry 🙂

My problem is that people talk as if these are the only options.

There are other services, like VRBO, that do the same thing and usually have the same properties. AirBNB is garbage now, so just use an alternative that doesn’t have the same bad policies and high fees.

I have supported Discord with a nitro subscription for as long as I’ve had an account. It’s a terrific program and there’s no reason to expect premium features for nothing in return. The mentality that everything should be free is why we have so many fucking ad driven online business models and I’m over it. I pay for what I use if it’s a good service.

Just look at the ratio on this post for a gold confirmation of those numbers. 300+ comments and 1400+ upvotes. That a decent interaction ratio.

Even just upvoting is still participation as well. Wiki is different.

Wikipedia is a different concept though.

This is social media. Wiki is information. I come here to share thoughts, but I only go to wiki to find data.

Almost everyone on social media posts random bullshit. That’s why there are tons and tons of comments on every post.

Things like reddit and Lemmy probably have at least 50% participation from their daily active users.

Yeah I’m having a hard time understanding this entire thread. Like… Is everyone here completely baked?

We touch our belts and then we wash our hands. Just like we touch our dicks AND THEN WE WASH OUR HANDS.

y’all are acting like I should be washing my dick too.

It’s easy to missjudge how much of our society are just mindless drones.

The difference between .17 and .18 is pretty substantial. Lemmy.world neglected to update to .18 because captcha support was not working for new account signups, so they waited for v0.18.1

https://join-lemmy.org/news/2023-06-23_-_Lemmy_Release_v0.18.0

There should be substantial performance improvements because it moves Lemmy from using websocket to HTTP API.

There are lots of other fixes and things, but that is the most substantial change.

Thanks for blocking that instance.

I tried to explain to their admin why the entire concept was bad for the fediverse but they didn’t seem to understand.

People can do whatever they want with their instances, but something like that should defederate themselves and live in a void.

That isn’t the way to try and build content or community over here. We have the high ground. We don’t need to stoop down to their level.

Twitter is still here as well, without much moderation.

The platforms survive. Interactions just get a lot worse. But most people still refuse to leave.

I don’t want to be a part of that system anymore, which is why I’m here even though I don’t necessarily believe this form of federation social network is designed very well.

Ha yes.

I may or may not have kids, but this video will stick in my mind forever. If I do, my focus will be on creating that community to surround my kids with people that they can look up to for good role models and hope for the best :D

Isn’t a lot of Beehaws complaints the lack of moderation on other instances, not specifically their own?

If they’re struggling with managing their own content, they certainly shouldn’t have to worry about content from other instances. Any instance that hasn’t managed to sort out their own moderation should be defederated until they figure it out.

Every individual community inside each instance should have its own set of moderators or it should not exist.

Karma is a great method of driving interaction, but like you’ve highlighted, it can result in a lot of unwanted behaviors.

Other social media is a good example of what to be avoided. People are driven to gather more followers and their content devolves into the lowest common denominator rapidly.

I wouldn’t mind some form of recognition for people that contribute good content to communities, but I don’t know exactly what that would look like.

As far as karma goes, we have a technological limitation in the fediverse, where your karma would be limited to the instance your user account is registered on. They could figure out how to make it work, but I’m just not sure it’s worth the effort. We have a lot of other things to focus on atm.

Even if Wagner just leaves and takes it’s troops back to Africa, it will be a major loss for Russia.

There’s no way Ukraine would ever let them switch sides though. Maybe the Free Russia Legion would work with them to carve out some territory for themselves in Russia, but the only think Ukraine would allow them to do is surrender for jail time.

I can here to say this.

Chicken is all of these things. I food prep chicken dishes because I need the right amount of protein. It’s delicious and it’s one of the cheapest types of meat.

Reposting is a long standing tradition on Reddit… I don’t see a reason that should change on Lemmy.

It’s not just a question about memes. If you see content on Reddit for your favorite topic or game, you should 100% replicate that data over to Lemmy.

If there’s a good duplication of content in both places, it makes it easier to move completely over to Lemmy.

There was a video about this posted a bit ago. The speaker said basicly this same thing. After the age of 7, the environment that your kid is placed into, and the other people they are around, has for more influence on them that the parents have.

You do your best for the first 7 years, and then you do your best to find the right environment for them for the rest of their lives.

That’s what I’m more upset about.

Who gives a shit about a couple of billionaires. Why does this have to be a world-wide news story? Why don’t we care about the 100s of refugees that die all the time in maritime accidents and why are those things dominating the news?

Time and time again we give the rich people all of our attention. Fuck that. We shouldn’t be letting the media direct our attention like this.

And some massive lawsuits to handle.