We’ve abandoned passenger rail, but not freight rail. The USA consistently ranks as one of the top users of freight rail (and by many metrics it is the top user of freight rail). The issue is that most American cities outside of the northeast corridor tend to be far enough apart that you are going to be better off flying. High speed rail hasn’t really caught on yet, but I suspect in another 15 years it’s going to be lot more common now that it’s starting to look commercially viable

This!

^ the above (in my comment) is also an example of what not to do here. Low effort karma whoring

The thing that’s even funnier is that I lost Apollo at 3:55 PM, so they didn’t even wait until 00:00 GMT

Boost is a kbin upvote, while upvote is a Lemmy upvote. So if you want promote some good content on kbin, you have to use boost

Reddit has clearly gone the route of TikTok and Facebook: engagement >> user experience

It’s no mystery why Reddit feels so negative these days

But that’s good, no? The power users are the minority that actually build the community. So we get the core base of Reddit without the problems you get from that site trying to become more like Facebook and TikTok

Apollo was great while it lasted

My predictions: reddit gold subscribers get pushed to the top of comments sections, followed by ads showing up inline in comments, and then the introduction of features like a marketplace.

They want to be TikTok and facebook so badly that they are going to forget what makes them unique

While we like to think we are rational creatures, most of the time we can be easily manipulated via our emotions - think of what Reddit or Facebook do (antiwork, idiotsincars, etc) to keep users scrolling. Trump is an entertainer at heart, and he uses negative emotions to keep his fans rabidly supporting him through thick and thin

What we need to do is work with Reddit mods on niche / civil subs to encourage their user base to move here before reddit starts using scabs / censoring content

They probably used it to watch Interstellar so they could get some of that sweet sweet Quantum Data

Reminder that kbin is now federated

Thank you, much better

It’s also good because it makes the experience easier when a new user onboards. IMHO, there should be a system in place to discourage someone from creating a community that exists on a different instance. This encourages people to coalesce into groups quicker, and if someone ever abuses that group, people always have the option to just…move on to another instance