Sergio

@Sergio@piefed.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit will force everyone to log in⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, the niche knowledge is what I’m talking about, I agree.

  But as for the memes… you know, a couple months ago I looked at the reddit goth memes sub to try and swipe some memes for !gothindustrial@lemmy.world, and… I only found like 4-5 decent ones. And most of those were swiped from Insta or Facebook, by their own admission. If I want to find good new goth memes I gotta look at Insta or I think Tiktok. (for old ones, I’d look at Facebook, maybe imgur or pinterest.) I don’t think reddit has a lot of good original stuff any more. Maybe it’s different for different types of memes, tho.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit will force everyone to log in⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I never felt that Reddit has a sense of community, even on mid-sized subs like r/karate or the sub for my local town. On the other hand, there are several people here on Piefed/Lemmy whose names I recognize exactly because we have smaller communities.

  The main advantage Reddit had is that for any topic, you were likely to have a world expert in that topic weighing in. You might have to scroll down a ways to get past the slew of stupid one-liners and joke-of-the-weeks, but it’d be there. But I suspect that fewer of those experts are weighing in these days, now that their only purpose is to feed the AI models.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon Ring’s Super Bowl ad sparks backlash amid fears of mass surveillance⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  FTA:

  … since founder Jamie Siminoff returned, the company has renewed its focus on using its products to prevent crime.

  Siminoff said he came back because of the possibilities AI brings. With this technology, he believes neighborhood cameras could be used to virtually “zero out crime” within a year.