I don’t know about the gambling but I do know they are struggling in many aspects of life ex. Education/financial

It’s possible the next few generations will see the failures of the previous generations and learn from them.

Which will hopefully lead them to spaces that give them back their agency like the Fediverse.

When Myspace, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Digg, Reddit, Snapchat, TikTok etc. became popular it was because the young crowd 15-25 year olds made it that way.

You want the Fediverse to grow? You’ll need young people to do it.

The Germans call that trollunterderbrücke, probably.

I would say Reddit became mainstream in 2015 with over approximately 100 million users. That’s when I started noticing the quality of comments start going down. That’s when people stopped having discussions and started bickering more. Before that it was a lot less hostile and the topic of discussions were more fun and informative.

There was also a lot of OC at the time. You just needed to join subs in order to see it. But it was there.

I agree that the standards were lower. That resulted in a lot of fun because things were easier. It would be harder to gain momentum that way now.

The thing about link aggregation is that it can be done on any platform. You can post links to Piefed, Bluesky, Mastodon, Nostr along with all mainstream sites. So why choose Lemmy over them?

The difference will be the OC. If users don’t want to put in the work for it then people who join will get bored and move on.

I’ll read comments on Reddit talking about Lemmy. Users will say they tried Lemmy but there was no interest/posts/discussion in their niche communities so they ended up back on Reddit.

We’ll see what happens I guess.

It didn’t take a decade for OC on smaller communities. I’ve been using Reddit since 2009. There was plenty of OC since ~2012.

Lemmy could use more OC in niche communities.

Most posts are links to other websites.

It might be good to try and post OC from Lemmy or the rest of the Fediverse to mainstream social media sites as a form of exposure.

Maybe we can get this type of idea to become more common here.

Shit.

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I know life is tiring but just in case you are also physically tired from lack of sleep. I recommend taking 5 mg of melatonin, if you have 8 hours of sleep available, for a few days.

There are times when I don’t sleep well, tossing turning etc, and melatonin every so often helps me catch up on a good night’s sleep. I’ll wake up feeling a lot better.

It won’t solve your life problems but it will help alleviate the unwanted feelings from not sleepy well.

I hope things work out for you.

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http://sansoxygen.com/

https://fonts.google.com/?query=Vernon+Adams

Some of my favorite fonts were designed by Vernon Adams.

He passed away in 2016 but I always remember his fonts. I didn’t know him personally but after using his fonts for years and learning about his passing, l felt very sad. Take a look, you might like some of his fonts.

Just Run Zero to 5K.

For me it’s the Golden Age of apps. Easy to use, minimal, good UI, no ads with the ability to buy premium, all the features that you need and non that you don’t.

If you want to start jogging I highly recommend it. I think it’s perfect.

Edit: I went from barely able to jog an exhausting half mile to jogging 4.5 miles in 13 weeks. It wasn’t easy and I think I “failed” a jog twice but having a clear goal with the encouragement of seeing a timer motivate you really helped me.

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Na, I understood the joke just fine. If you were here when I replied my joke to the joke, you would know that the post I replied to had negative votes until I made my joke. Then everyone else realized that they were making a joke and started giving them upvotes. Have a good day.

I’m sorry to be the spelling guy but it’s “phobia” not “fobia”

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