The reality is that there was/is no reddit alternative and right now we're all in this transitory phase where we're all looking for a new home. We'll all just have to wait for the dust to settle. Lemmy isn't perfect but is improving and additionally other alternatives like kbin and tildes are in the works.

To your larger point, much of what you're feeling is the abrupt break in habits. I've been using the gap to develop more positives ones, and it's been great.

GIVE ME BACK MY DAMN 3.5MM HEADPHONE JACK ON MY PHONE!!!

I think it can encourage unintended behaviors like karma farming.

I've seen similar trends in some FPS games in which during immediate game play your kill to death ratio is hidden to keep people engaged with the main loop instead of getting worked up over their stats.

Absolutely not. I've been completely shocked by the reception of this and feel like the positivity is 100% due to it having the Apple logo on it.

Who tf wants to wear a ski mask when working or watching videos? Not to mention it's got 2 hours of battery life. That's all without touching the $3500 price tag.

You'd be surprised how many company decisions are made by CEO A just reading news of CEO B doing a thing and just also wanting to do it.

From the party of "personal responsibility".

Like okay, just don't wear yours and let my personal responsibility start and end with my person.

Feels like 3 things in our current discourse:

• No feeling of making a difference with your work (pointlessness)
• Disingenuous workplace cultures (wE'Re a fAmiLy)
• Extremely long work hours (WFH is great but "always connected" means you're always working)

Holy shit, just casually dropping that they're working on a new Perfect Dark is crazy.

Strongly smells of clickbait for boomers

So Xi didn't make himself leader for life? And he doesn't exert significant control over China's government?

I strongly recommend doing a deep dive into some genres over at Bandcamp if you haven't already.

I was of the same opinion for a while, but I think you'll be pleasantly surprised if you check into the lesser known music corners.

Yeah I agree and am working on it in terms of engagement. Usability is going to be key for whichever platform eventually takes over. It could absolutely be Lemmy, but I'm watching for other possibilities as well.

I appreciate the source and will read it further. That being said, you didn't address the somewhat recent removal of the 1990s second term limit rule. Without a limit the communist party will be unable to elect another leader to that office until Xi steps down or dies. As most see it, this would make him more in line with a dictator than an elected leader.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-43361276

Oh man, the grouping feature would be especially amazing in the context of the fediverse. I'd love to group all my News communities into one set so I can browse just news for instance. I see it like clicking Subscribed with a subset of All, custom group 1, custom group 2, etc.

I think no, so much of what makes the Steam Deck great is SteamOS. Plus my understanding is that this things battery life isn't very good.

That being said, still appears to be a competent competitor and I'm here for that.

Hopefully this corrects the odd path they've been moving down. That being said, CNN has been kind of trash for long time now.

This was not a point on the mechanism of Democracy but rather Xi's removal of the term limit he worked within. As it stands, the people of China have no systemic method to remove him should they overwhelmingly disagree with his policies and unless he steps down he's in charge for life.

Yeah I hate this and usually the menu is just a huge PDF you have to zoom in on and move around.

Effectively just two different methods to access the Fediverse. They each have different thought processes on how to do that, and both are at different stages in their development with kbin being the newest of the two.

I'm watching kbin's development as I really like its intended ability to interface directly with say Mastodon, but as its stands it's not quite their yet imo.

Democracy is broadly rule by the people. A leader for life without a mechanism for removal is one of many signs of a government that is not ruled by the people systemically. A benevolent dictator may rule in-line with the majority but should they not, the people have no ability to address it and make change at that level.

Further, no one has addressed the initial points made. Xi removed the ability for the people he rules over to hold him accountable. This is one of many indicators of an autocrat or one who is moving toward being an autocrat in full.