Ah I got you, yes I totally agree. And I also do think gifs and shitposts etc can be shared and engaged with in an organic way that doesn't force out slower content, which is also partly why active moderation is so important.

Clickbait is a push-away factor for me. I’m not here for outrage.

I think most users here would agree with you (I certainly do). There are dozens of apps out there that scroll the same memes endlessly and trying to make Lemmy competitive in the marketplace for attention by imitating that format will fail. I think the best strategy for Lemmy-growers is to lean into the strengths of the Fediverse by hosting discussions and communities that the Reddit algorithm suppresses.

This is a good thought provoking post, but I think most of the methods you describe here actually work against the Fediverse, both in terms of desired outcomes and actual growth.

• If a user comes to Lemmy (for example) and sees the same stale meme feed and engagement bait they see on Reddit, what's the incentive to switch? What makes Lemmy unique?

• Of the users who are here and understand the reasons for not using commercial social media, most are probably trying to avoid the bulk of the sort of content made by the suggestions you give.

• Growth-for-growth's-sake puts more burden on instance admins for reasons that don't involve growing a sense of community (presumably the reason they are investing time in the first place).

My point is that Lemmy can never compete with Reddit in terms of attention and distractability and trying to build "community" around that here will always fail. We should lean into Lemmy's strengths, focus on growing communities and discussions and the kind of thing the Reddit algorithm suppresses.

It is Christmas episode it's probably going to be how Santa gets to so many houses on Xmas eve.

For years I had thought I got old and don't have friends who play games as much anymore but this meme made me realize it's that I wasn't making new gaming friends.

I had basically one TF2 server I would play on because that's the one I knew the people. It was like the community basketball hoop. If people weren't playing then sometimes I would text a friend and try to get a game going or more often than not just try again later. It felt natural and low-stakes. This meme hits hard.

What's the matter with Firefox for Android? I love that it has full extension support.

The cocktails make me think he might be doing a "fuck it" and simply being lazy with shaving. Regardless, it will be funny when he grows a better beard in a single episode.

Interesting take that feels dismissive to me, what about the episode makes you draw that conclusion? It strongly felt to me like her experience was being presented as outside the bounds of what can be measured by science.

I somehow missed that the sitcom idea was anything serious. I'd be surprised if it ever makes it to the finish line, but with Tawny involved that's a promising sign it won't be crap!

I would have probably assumed it was intentionally messing up Ronald D Moore's name and not investigated any further. I love that you know someone on the LDS writer's team was like "We need the name of a funny guy, what was that comedian hologram in TNG??"

”Good joke. We got a real Roland B. Moore over here.”

This is hilarious, I did not catch it at all during my watch.

startrek.website/c/risafterdark

Totally. I would like to see what he would make today, with his more (as he describes it) mature perspective.

I love how he said he wanted the "God" in Star Trek V to be literally God and was talked out of it. But it is interesting hearing his perspective on that process of directing too.

She has a good line around 21 minutes about Enterprise taking a step back when it came to progressive politics, she describes it as "going back to the culture of the original Star Trek [series], and not the concept of the original Star Trek" which I thought was really well said.

This is the first I'm hearing of her book, it looks good and I've always liked Nana's willingness to speak out. I will have to check it out.

Thrall? That way people can use some of the quatloos we've been hoarding.

10/10