Dad of two awesome kiddos. Lucky to be married to my best friend. Interested in interesting things: progressive politics/social democracy, infosec, Linux, organized labor, Yankees, NY Giants,Rick & Morty, Andor, CBS’ Ghosts, The Orville, cord cutting before it was cool (since 2012), The West Wing, The Wire. American by birth, citizen of the world by choice, progressive social democrat.
Formerly @TheSean before the Masthead.social instance disappeared Feb '23
@PlasticPigeon I can reply on Lemmy with Mastodon (with Mastodon character limit), and never tried to comment on pixelfed or peertube, but Beehaw can interact with all lemmy and kbin. I primarily use Mastodon and a secondarily Beehaw.
@PlasticPigeon
I have a Mastodon account, and a Beehaw (more civil version of Lemmy, more moderation, no downvoting), and i have no pixelfed or peertube (fediverse YouTube) accounts and yet I can access any account/community/hashtag from any service by either of my accounts. Mastodon has a character limit that beehaw/lemmy doesn’t but Mastodon is about following individuals while lemmy is about subreddit/community/magazine/etc that anyone can participate in.
@notnotmike @yogthos the addictive characteristic of Tiktok isn’t about a massive amount of quality, but quantity hidden among mid quality content. Just all grade-A content wouldn’t set off the dopamine that getting dud, after dud, after dud, jackpot, dud again, dud, dud, dud, dud, maybe jackpot no, dud, dud, dud… is a clear path to dopamine
Much like a slot machine, the algorithm can intersperse jackpot and near jackpot amongst mostly dud content that makes it very addictive.