southsamurai

My cousin did that! It was hilarious tbh.

I could wish everyone had been supportive, but we all know the ones that are backwards enough to say anything less than nice, so we all got to make a little fun of them.

And my one remaining great aunt, bless her heart, thought that my cousin has gotten married and the new name was her new wife. Welcomed her to the family, sent congratulations to the same account because she just doesn’t do well with the internet. It was adorable. It was also awesome, because when she was finally clued in all the way, she said “Oh, I declare! They can do that now? Ain’t doctors smart!” She still talked to “both” people for a few weeks anyway, but eventually got there.

Not too shabby for a lady about to hit 100.

The stats are irrelevant, imo. What matters is how useful lemmy is both to average users and specialty users.

Right now, the more niche the hobby/interest is, the less useful lemmy is unless it fits into the handful of subjects that lemmites grok.

That being said, for general use, lemmy is great. Plenty of memes, plenty discussion about subjects of general interest, and plenty of posts for casual scrolling on the john. In that regard, it’s better than bigger forums because you don’t have to scroll through a dozen fake posts to find things that interested a fellow human.

I can usually, on bad days when I’m not very mobile, spend an hour or so on lemmy before I get back to where I had previously left off. That’s about the sweet spot, imo.

Hey, I appreciate the work. No bullshit, it’s a great idea, and the way you implemented it as its own C/ is perfect.

That being said, it’s too much. It was essentially a wall of nothing but the bot for me. I’m not sure if that’s because there was just that much for it to scrape with it being new, if it needs a rate limitation to keep it from flooding, or maybe the list of sources needs to pared down.

But it definitely interfered with accessing human posts by sheer volume. Which is the bad thing about bots.

I don’t know Jack shit about how bots work under the hood, but it definitely needs some kind of change to how much it’s posting.

Again, I think the idea is great and I was initially happy about it. Thanks for doing something to help us all stay updated.