• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    27 days ago

    What I didn’t expect was what My friend said after making a Lemmy account on her chosen website — “I don’t like it because it looks like Old Reddit. I have to click on each post to view it”.

    Sometimes people tell you something and it just ends a friendship…

    • Kichae@lemmy.ca
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      27 days ago

      I’m continually surprised by how incurious people are in general. One of the first things I did when I explored Lemmy was click on the weird “+” button next to post titles, because I wanted to know what it did. And then I checked the settings to see what I could tweak.

      People don’t seem to do shit like this, and it baffles me.

      • Carighan Maconar@lemmy.world
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        27 days ago

        I think this is based on the way short form video has taken over as being what having-the-TV-on-in-the-background was for the baby boomers. And click-then-go-back is too complex an interaction for “noise” while having your brain off, while swiping from meaningless clip to meaningless clip in shorts or tiktok works.

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        27 days ago

        I always open settings on every app or website to see what I can change. This gives me feeling like this is something made just for me and I will use it for longer. Except KDE, this has way too many settings.