Perhaps the Fediverse needs a helpful paperclip like mascot to help with on-boarding.
"Hi, I'm Freddy Verse your friendly guide to the Fediverse, let me help you pick your new home. Please answer these questions:"
What type of service are you looking for?
- Micro-blogging
- Blogging
- Image sharing
- Long-form video
- Short-form video
- Social network
- Jack-of-all-trades
- Dick pics
Where do you live?
- America, fuck yeah!
- UK
- German speaking countries
- France
- Australia
What are you interested in?
- Books
- Films
- Gaming
- Star Wars
- Star Trek
- Harry Potter
- Porn
- Just the dick pics
I was hoping for a \end{meme} in the text description 😢
What would Threads be in this analogy, maybe Edge browser?
Always being shoved in your face, an artificially high "user count", but after a while people don't really use it?
Corel word
Threads has much much much more active content than Lemmy.
Edge is also a fantastic browser and has tons of actual users. Most folks I know use it more than chrome these days.
Might depend on where you are in the world, it's not really the case where I am
Twitter, Bluesky, and Mastodon are most common for that format, and Chrome/Safari for browsers. I see more Firefox than Edge, with the exception being locked down work computers
Predatory journal
Are there LaTeX haters? Why?
I'd say anyone who has ever tried to use it hates it a little, even if they also love it
Everytime you are forced to actually look at the log and try to understand the error, I hate that. But I love LaTeX still.
I remember having my fair share of grievences when I was learning it lol
It has a learning curve and it is better suited for technical work IMO. I wouldn't tell a grandparent to write a letter using LaTeX for example.
I WOULD trust a grandparent to be able to download Mastodon and make an account, but still I think the analogy works nicely lol
I wouldn't say hater, more like "each tool for its job"
LaTeX can be quite cumbersome for certain tasks, same as Word is cumbersome for other tasks. It all depends what the tool is made for, and what you try to use it for.
What's the markdown of social media? Both derogatory and non-derogatory answers accepted
Ok I figured it out actually - it's HackerNews (both derogatory and non-derogatory at the same time)
Signal family groups.
Screaming into the void (non derogatory)
/dev/null as a social media
That brief period of time when Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube were "ok"
Maybe it's just nostalgia
