depressed_submissive 1y ago • 100%
Yes please 😊
depressed_submissive 1y ago • 100%
Not sure my contribution is of any value to you, but I am a gay male in my 50's. Never did much in terms of skincare. Only washed my face with water and was a heavy smoker up till about 15 years ago. Up until I started tuning bald people estimated my age to be 10-15 years younger. So I personally think genetics is the biggest determining factor. That said. I started using hyaluronic acid about a year ago because of dry skin, and it does SEEM to make the few wrinkles I had appear less and make my skin more firmer. All in all, I think some skincare helps a little bit, but never expect big changes or improvements. Most of it is just (bad) luck. I would at the very least never buy products that are ridiculously expensive. The cheap ones work just as well, just make sure you read the ingredients. This is just my personal, anecdotal experience and opinion ymmv
depressed_submissive 1y ago • 100%
I don’t know what will actually end up working, but I hope we try something new soon.
Personally I don't think there is a one-size-fits-all solution. Each problem needs a different approach. We need to figure out how to have all these systems work in tandem.
depressed_submissive 1y ago • 100%
This is going to be a total noob (and thus stupid) question, but is it possible to selfhost a vpn?
depressed_submissive 1y ago • 100%
I take the occasional peek to see if it imploded yet. I do miss certain communities. Only last week I was looking for some info on a historical subject. Google turned up nothing so I wanted to r/askHistorians. I hate they decided to stay on reddit and don't switch to lemmy.
depressed_submissive 1y ago • 100%
I do not feel thirsty nor do I feel when to stop eating. I also have trouble pinpointing where I feel pain. I feel it but can only tell you the general area. I have problems with balance and not sure if this falls under interoception but I see 3 images. My left eye, right eye and the composite. Edp when tired.
depressed_submissive 1y ago • 100%
Is he scraping the barrel or just short of loose change?
depressed_submissive 1y ago • 80%
I get that, but it is irrational. They can plan such a thing, esp. when they do it in concord consort. Just prepopulate the new lemmy communities with some content, ask some regulars/power-posters to become active first. Then setup a site that simplifies the signing-up tot lemmy/kbin and make a big announcement before you abandon reddit. Sure, at first the amount of people will decline. But as Reddit will have problems assigning new mods to all those big subreddits the quality over there will go down further. It won't be an easy or even fast switch, but sometimes it's best to just start over.
depressed_submissive 1y ago • 90%
I just don't understand why mods form big, popular subreddits don't switch over to lemmy/kbin/whatever? If it is sunk cost fallacy that is irrational. They have a big following, all they have to do is say "hey guys, we are moving to another site. Go <here> to sign up." If it is because (as some people suggest, not me) they are power-hungry mods and fear losing that power, it is also irrelevant since they can host their own instance and have all the power they want. If they could organize a blackout, surely they can organize an exodus? What am I missing?
depressed_submissive 1y ago • 100%
Not until someone can make it profitable.
depressed_submissive 1y ago • 100%
I was looking at matrix today and like what I read. I also saw there is a bridge for other platforms like e.g. whatsapp. But I failed to understand how that works. Can I send and receive messages to whatsapp users with element or is this not possible (yet)?
depressed_submissive 1y ago • 100%
At some point in the future, everyone who is currently alive, will be dead and the earth will be populated with people who do not exist yet.
Since I was born when my parent were in their late 30's. And my father was as well, so my paternal grandfather was born in the 1890's. When I was a kid he told me stories of his childhood. I was only 9 when he died, and at the time his stories were just that; stories. Now (I'm in my 50's) I wish I had asked him things about those times. He was born and grew up in a world (mostly) without electricity, and without cars, phones, etc.
He was someone from a totally different world, and I knew him.
Added later: He was born "only" 129 years ago, everyone alive then, is now dead.
depressed_submissive 1y ago • 100%
You know... I don't understand why AI would need access to an API. Can't they just crawl the web? HTML5 was designed with AI in mind iirc. But I'm no expert so I'll probably talk bs here.
depressed_submissive 1y ago • 100%
'the best' is subjective. Yes, tumblr still exists and perhaps has a second life. But the spirit of the old tumblr is gone. Same applies to Reddit. It's not the name or the site that died but its personality. Twitter is a good example. It died a few years ago, slowly. It is still around but what made twitter twitter is no more. It changed, it has another atmosphere and other types of users. It is still called twitter but that is like a son who has the same name as his father. Two different persons.
depressed_submissive 1y ago • 100%
I'm wondering/imagining. Did he walk into a diy store to get that thing himself or did one of his employees do it? Did he buy it an hour before or a day before? What goes through one's mind to think "I'll go buy a sink and have my picture taken with it, that'll be funny". Was there a meeting about this?
depressed_submissive 1y ago • 95%
I have trouble wrapping my mind around the fact the is some sort of market value to be had by paying 42,000 per month to twitter.
depressed_submissive 1y ago • 100%
ohh, hyped about the scents.... my olfactory nerve is trembling in anticipation, and I'm losing control of my sphincter. Which is never a good combination.
We just don't smell the rot yet. It's not about the actual body (website) and the name. It is about the spirit, the personality. And that has been compromised and killed off because of factors one could call enshittification or whatever. Digg and Tumblr still exist, at least in name, but not in spirit. I think Reddit has past that threshold. It will be a slow death and I am not sure the fediverse will fill the void it leaves behind. But I do think and believe communities will never sustain on venture capital.
depressed_submissive 1y ago • 100%
Then I will wait patiently until you do 🙂 And thank you very much for your work and dedication.
Sorry if this is obvious, but I fail to find where I can donate to fmhy. I see the support button on top, but that donates to lemmy if I'm not mistaken? How/where do I donate to you guys directly?
depressed_submissive 1y ago • 100%
Hmm. So how about: "Tired of ads? Reddit wants to show them to you. Come to Lemmy, we are friendly and you are welcome!" I am willing to commit 100 euro if anyone can make that happen.
depressed_submissive 1y ago • 100%
For some reason the first thing I thought of were moats and drawbridges. Seems like everyone is fortifying themselves from something. Is it fear of loss of money or fear of AI itself or something else?
With Reddit, and perhaps also Twitter. Personally I deleted my accounts on both platforms and came here today, because I feel it was the moral thing to do. And I hope both platforms will burn down, and the new way forward is more community-driven social media instead of capitalist-driven. But realistically I think both will just slowly get worse in terms of quality (well, twitter doesn't have much quality content for a while now anyway) and muddle through for a while. In the end it could go either way I think? What are your thoughts on where those platforms will end up, realistically?