Bismyth

Same!

1. (Freebie) Make a shitpost. - Done
2. Make a post about something other than technology or politics or a shitpost.
3. Make a post showcasing a thing or topic you find interesting.
4. Make a post to a community with fewer than 100 subscribers.
5. Make a post to a community in a small instance.
6. Make a post featuring a human-made piece of art.
   7, Make an on-topic comment to a post in a small community.
   8, Make a comment or post sharing news about a location relevant to you.
7. Make a high-quality long form text post or comment.
8. Post or comment a link from another part of the Fediverse.

Ooo cool. I’ve subscribed to both. Thanks

I personally don’t like microblogging platforms in general. It’s cool that there’s an alternative to twitter and the like, but I just have no pull towards platforms that emulate that kind of environment.
I think it’s great that it’s so popular and has introduced a lot of people to the fediverse and spread awareness of ethical alternatives to corporate slop, but is not for me.

Thar ya go

Any intentional choice made to capture human attention functions as an algorithm.

For instance, when a creator posts an intentionally silly title, it triggers a predictable urge in users to comment on that silliness. This deliberate cause-and-effect cycle means the creator’s strategy itself is the engagement-driving algorithm. A good example of this human-designed system is ragebaiting which systematically uses manufactured outrage to multiply views and comments

How dare you come here with your sound logic and reason that makes sense

This is actually great!
Social media sites should do this. There’s never a good reason to be on [Insert Corporate Slop Social Media Website here] at 3AM.

You’re right, these are awful. Have an upvote

Random but in Afrikaans, oom means uncle. Thought that was mildly humorous.

Any good thing is ruined once it’s co-opted by capitalism.
AI and LLMs (In my very very personal and completely subjective opinion) is the coolest shit humanity has ever invented and under the right system would’ve been unanimously celebrated.
But noooooooo, capitalism had to go and fucking turn a miraculous tool for human creativity and knowledge into a relentless driver of layoffs, corporate slop and copyright theft because some greedy fucks want more money for themselves than they know what to do with.
But, well, that’s just, like, my opinion, man.

I am addicted to escalators. My doctor put me on a 12-step program

I crimethink, therefore I crimeam

When I’m scrolling any feed, whenever I see a post I don’t want to see, I block that community or add a keyword to my filters.
So far I’ve blocked over a hundred communities and it’s killed most of the adrenal rage-bait political posts that don’t do anything other than rile me up. It’s one thing to be aware of shitty things happening but it’s another thing to doomscroll just for the adrenaline hit, and as a person with general anxiety I want to feel better after scrolling rather than worse