Same here. I blame the websites. Cookies, ads, tracking. A wall of meaningless text with half a sentence of content.

I also feel it costs some energy to navigate an unknown design. Which parts are menu, which are content, which are other articles “I might find interesting”? This is why I so love Wikipedia, reddit and now hopefully lemmy. One familiar design to browse mountains of content from various sources.

So I was kind of happy to stay in the comment section. Someone will surely quote the relevant parts of the article.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=brigading

Top three replies:

A concentrated effort by one online group to manipulate another. (e.g. by mass commenting)

When people from one group, organization, fandom, forum, server, etc. aggressively infiltrates, usually spontaneously, a rival forum, server, or stream; negative criticism is usually given to the victim of a brigade (the event itself sometimes being called a raid), with insults and counter-signaling common. Usually used in the past participle (“brigaded”). Brigades can be done in good humor, but are usually antagonistic in nature.

Brigading is an online harassment tactic where a group of people rally against an individual (or occasionally against a small group of people) in a coordinated, sustained and organized way.

Most Switch Owners Are Women, Gamers React Poorly

Interesting title. As if “Women” and “Gamers” were two distinct groups.

Valid point, but even then, the two groups overlap.

The title seems to suggest that all Gamers were male. The article mostly talks about how that is not the case. It refers to these vocal gamers as ‘some annoying dudes’ within the text. Evidently, only some Gamers reacted poorly, but omitting the “some” makes for a more clickbaity=better headline.

The irony is, this headline strengthens the very stereotype the article aims to combat.

I find this post at a moment when the show has already started (as can be seen on https://blackout.photon-reddit.com/ and https://reddark.untone.uk/ )

But the article is 3 days old. It seems many did not expect that much unity from subreddits going dark. 2.5 billion affected subscribers is quite something!

I’m still in hopes they change their mind in light of recent events. Don’t think they will though.

If that happens with malicious intent, yes. If it’s just advertising, a friendly visit or an otherwise civil exchange of opinions, no.

Should be possible to use another UI or just another theme without needing to redo all the backend work.

If it currently has no UI/theme switcher, then some backend work might be required, but still much less than making a new app from scratch.

How can we determine malicious intent?

It’s social interactions, not science. People form opinions.

People may falsly assume they’re being brigaded, and there may be confusion around the term and the limits. Which in turn can be used by brigading groups to conceal their efforts.

Anyways, I hope I could help answer some of your questions.

Great question. As I’m new to these things too, I forwarded it to ChatGPT 3.5. In summary:

Lemmy is designed for creating and participating in online communities, while Kbin is designed for organizing and sharing knowledge.

Lemmy is more focused on discussions and social interaction, while Kbin is geared towards structured content creation and collaboration.

They seem to have more in common than they differ, especially for users who only read posts, visit links, write comments.

I also heard they are meant to be able to access each other’s content, although that’s currently not working.

Please correct what is wrong, happy to learn.

Ecosia! 🌳

Did you know about shortcuts?

Usually, I start searching on ecosia. If I’m searching for images, I append #i to my search to make it an image search. If I find no good results, I append #g to my search and it switches to google and performs the same search there.