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Cake day: 2023年7月22日
  • gon [he]@lemm.eetoFediverse@lemmy.world•Threads is adding fediverse content to your social feedsEnglish
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    16 天前

    Not sure that’s right.

    Mind you, I fully agree with you on Bluesky, but I think Threads really isn’t much different.

    For example, say this integration is fully accomplished. Fediverse users wouldn’t have a real reason to switch to Threads, but because Threads is a much larger platform all future users are gonna go there, and not to the rest of the Fediverse. That, already, I think is an issue. Then, because it’s a bigger platform, most communities are gonna start to be populated mostly by Threads users - simply because numbers rule. The 2nd E comes into play: extend. The protocols are extended. At first, it might not be enough to switch - just some quality of life changes, maybe - but the more stuff is added, the more the experience for the Threads users - aka, the majority of the users on any given community on the Fediverse - starts to diverge from the rest of the users. Now, at this point, a Fediverse user has two choices: either ignore this, or switch. Sure, many will just ignore it - the people on the Fediverse right now are the kind of people that would tend to ignore that, anyway - but plenty won’t, because it’s SOCIAL media. SOCIAL! If your experience differs significantly from your peers, that will bother you, and you will want to change, especially if you’re in the crushing minority.

    Embrace, extend, extinguish.

    Hey, maybe I’m wrong! Hopefully, even. However, I do see it happening. Hope I got my point across.

  • gon [he]@lemm.eetoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•Would you hangout with yourself?English
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    23 天前

    Well, that’s a complicated question.

    On one hand, I do already hang-out with myself basically all the time. I talk to myself a lot and I’m my own wall to throw stuff at.

    On the other hand, I’m also very antisocial. I would definitely not enjoy spending this time that I spend with myself with another, physical person.

    So, that.

  • gon [he]@lemm.eetoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•Do you believe in free will?English
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    1 个月前

    This seems like a very weird way to look at the issue.

    For one, not being able to understand minute, uncountable connections and interactions doesn’t mean we can’t realize a broader relationship of causality between them and our own actions. There are many things we don’t know - that’s right and undeniable - but there are also many things we do know, or at least that we think we know. Sure, you can go around saying “we understand so little about [virtually any scientific discipline], might as well assume that whatever soothes my psyche is true,” but just because the first part of that statement is true doesn’t mean the whole thing is reasonable. In my opinion, by the way, it isn’t reasonable.

    Assume free will exists; if you are wrong, it will made no difference;

    Here’s a question for you: if you assume free will doesn’t exist, what difference does it make? I mean, you still feel like it exists, you live your life as if experiencing it, and regardless of whether you, as an individual, believe it or not, the world continues on as if it does exist. I really see no difference, in practical terms, between believing free will exists or not.

    A little off-topic, but this reminds me of those people that say that morality can’t exist outside of religion. You say you’re an atheist, and then they ask you why you don’t go around killing people. Hopefully you understand what I’m talking about here.