The thing is, I think our attention spans are too cooked to be overwhelmed like that anymore. A new crisis every 20 minutes? I can get through 40+ tiktok videos in that time, and half of them will be about something they are trying to terrify with (trans rights, science defunding, bird flu, racism, palestine, the oligarchy, luigi, etc.)

The old media can’t keep up, but I’m in my mid-thirties and even my old brain can handle being pulled in dozens of directions and still think about/remember Luigi, unprompted, multiple times a day.

Same, but I’ve also seen a bunch of people both on Reddit and Bluesky say they don’t like Lemmy because the interface feels dated, “like Reddit 10 years ago.”

To each their own I guess. But maybe there should be an instance that sets their default theme to something that feels more modern so those who want a simpler, less usable, experience can easily have that too.

And yeah, they’d probably become the new instance everyone complains about for being too “normie” but if we actually want the fediverse to catch on and take down corporate-owned social media, we are eventually gonna have to appeal to every part of those sites’ user bases.

I’ve heard of a modded App that was made when TikTok was banned in Russia, that said, even people who live outside the US, but at one time had a US phone number associated with their accounts aren’t able to access it either.

Seems Bytedance is trying to play nice with the US government - probably in hopes of Trump making Republicans reverse the ban. Because at this point that’s the only way they get to stay long-term. It’s probably going to upset people to see them kiss Trump’s ring, but considering that the way they make money in the US is their shop, and selling ads to US companies, and both of those go away if they’re banned, they need their user base loud about the ban to motivate Trump.