Most routers from ISPs come with “adult” content filtering enabled by default I think, at least the ones I’ve had have had this on.
Not that I’m doubting you, but is this a common thing? I’ve never even seen it as an option here in Canada, both on ISP supplied devices and on separate routers. Is it just because I’m using cheaper devices, or because on my region?
Razer mouse software that supports the full range of configuration options available on Windows plus automatic profile switching based on active app.
This has been a big sticking point for me. I’m using a Razer Naga (thats the one with the numpad on the side) and like to make use of those extra buttons - esspecially since I play a lot of more complex and/or more competitve games, but even for day-to-day use. Since it doesn’t have on board memory, its useless on Linux, and that undoes about a decade of muscle memory (and requires me to buy a new mouse).
I don’t think its changed significantly, but I also do think the impacts (good and bad) have become more far-reaching, and the bad esspecially has become more visible.
We’ve always had a generally evil ruling class, and that evil always ranged from “just” stealing from the populus to genocide and torturing people for fun (just as today). Unlike historically, we’re just aware of all of it, whereas a serf would barely know what their own lord was like, nonetheless one on the other side of the world. We’ve also always had those willing to work to build a better future. In the past, this was mostly limited to giving food and money, usually organized by religions organizations, and this continues, but we also now have thousands of other non-profits and tools, made and maintained by talented people who just want a better world. Think of all the people making educational videos, articles, software and more and giving it away for cheap or for free. Things like Wikipedia, VLC, and others would have caved to the rich and powerful decades ago if not for the fact that they’re committed to making the world better.
As a whole, yes. We’ve managed to make it this far, and have strived for progress the whole time. On an individual level, absolutely not.
Based on my own experiences and readings, I’d guesstimate that a good 10% of people are genuinely evil, and another 50% are morons. I would absolutely not bet on those odds when trying to get help. Still, that leaves another 40% who are decent enough to want good, and smart enough to act on it.
Spez melting down and accidentally giving us great PR for awhile was maybe… not good enough in itself, eh?
The problem is that for the average user, the Fediverse just doesn’t offer a compelling product. Think about the average, enthusiastic poster on Reddit. While yes, they might be a power user who understands the site and is passionate about it, most (esspecially in smaller communities) users are passionate about what they’re posting about, and just happen to access the community through Reddit. They don’t know nor care about the underlying tech and politics, they just want to talk to others about how to grow tomatoes or what game patch 1.16 means for the meta. These users didn’t care about the Reddit drama. They just kept going as normally as they could, and those who did try were largely met with dead communities anyway, so simply went back to what they were doing before.
Normally, I’d say post more, but from a glace at your profile, you’re already posting more than I would expect any individual to (Thank you.)
Beyond this, we need the Fediverse to expand to the point were it can achive a critical mass and the networking effect and its own momentum will keep it running. In my own personal opinion, there is two main avenues we need to tackle:
Gaining/Keeping new users: As it stands, Lemmy has low visibility, and when new users do try to learn more, it’s extremely inaccessible. Keep in mind that even Reddit was seen as kinda niche and inaccessible, nonetheless as a defederated platform filled with elitist political and tech nerds. To improve these, one avenue is to engage in more marketing and onboarding. Things like colourful, “How to use Lemmy” image decks, screenshots reposted on other platforms, or just straight propaganda posters. We also need to improve the experience in the Fediverse, although this is more about being friendly and supportive, and calling out elitism and assholery. Larger movements like what is needed here happen through a sense of community.
Lack of compelling content: As it stands, there is far too little content on the fediverse, nonetheless anything standout. We need both more broad appeal content and more high-quality content if we want to draw users from other platforms. Options for this range in complexity from simply asking users to post/comment more (even a simple, complementary comment helps encourage others to post more), to writing bots to make relevant posts to the appropriate communities like Reddit did in the early days, to making more original content for Lemmmy (or at least released to Lemmy early), or even sponsoring/commissioning more work to be posted here.
IMO, we need a combination of both of these avenues if we want to achive the critical mass needed to make the Fediverse successful.
Those stats are total posts, not posts per day. Also worth noting that the home screen stats are misleading, as they include a bot-run Reddit mirror that is larger than the rest of Lemmy and PieFed combined, not to mention a lot of other smaller (but still massive) bots and bot-run instances that most are defederated from.
If you want to be more accurate, you have to filter through individual instances excluding outliers, and collect the data from each one to add up.
Overall, the stats seem to suggest that its lost momentum and grown stagnant, although stagnant does not mean dead either.
Currently, no.
The research on social media in general is already spotty and uneven. Most publicly available studys exclusively look at students, often use very small population samples, use exclusively self-reported data, and introduce other methodological issues. Thats not to say that the data is useless (esspecially given the near-unanimous results in the studies that are done) but its very incomplete. We have no idea which features, models, or topics are most problematic nor do we know how they affect different demographics. Given that we lack even that data, there is no way something as niche as the Fediverse or other forms of open-source social media will be covered.