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Joined 1 year ago
Cake day: July 22nd, 2023
  • gon [he]@lemm.eetoMemes@lemmy.ml•Complexities of modern lifeEnglish
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    13 days ago

    This always makes me think about the intersection of magic and science.

    Many “mages” way back in Europe such as Albertus Magnus and Agrippa were scientists and doctors. Shamans were doctors. Some of the oldest incantations we have are healing spells.

    Yes, there’s a lot (a lot) of spirituality mixed in, superstition and wrong things, but a lot of it was really more of a framing; scientists explained their discoveries with religion, but their goals were fundamentally to further science, they just didn’t call it that.

    Truly, the people that developed the methods to concentrate flavors, to get sweetness without sugar, stuff like that, they’re alchemists and mages. Doctors, chemists, researches, they are alchemists and mages.

    That really is an apothecary and they really are elixirs of wakefulness. Just as they didn’t call them “convenience stores” and “energy drinks” back in the day, we don’t use these mystical terms nowadays, but that’s what they are.

  • gon [he]@lemm.eetoFediverse@lemmy.ml•Collecting feedbacks about fediverse experienceEnglish
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    1 year ago

    the difficulties you faced in the fediverse

    Some networks are a bit confusing, like Misskey and Firefish. On Lemmy sometimes things don’t federate as you’d expect them, like Mastodon <-> Lemmy. Even between different Lemmy instances sometimes things don’t federate, so people on different instances will see different things on the same post. Not hard to get used to, overall, but it’s there.

    challenges faced by the fediverse in attracting users and retain them

    I’m not really inside that part of the fediverse. I enjoy Lemmy, and check Mastodon ocasionally. I guess an issue is that the people I follow on centralized social media aren’t really on fediverse. Also, I think videos are a big issue. Video-based content is huge on the internet, but the fediverse video-sharing platforms just aren’t very good.

    your experience in fediverse

    I’ve been having tons of fun. Lots of fun conversations and interesting topics to explore. Definitely positive.

    feedbacks about fediverse

    As I mentioned before I think video-based stuff really needs to improve. Some connectivity/federation issues also need to be ironed out. I also think chatroom style social-media would be great on the fediverse. Lemmy does that a little bit with the Chat comments, but it’s not the same thing. I’m thinking something like Discord. Matrix can be federated I think, it does run AP, but it’s not in practice AFAIK.

    your suggestions to improve fediverse

    Basically what I said above: focus on video content more and effective chatrooms.

    setbacks of fediverse and anything related to fediverse.

    Not sure what this means? Setbacks? I guess dumbasses talking shit online is an issue? A lot of people hear “fediverse, activitypub, blah blah blah” and decide it’s “not for them”. I guess it’s hard to make people see the value of decentralized social media. And it’s definitely difficult to make people let go of their virtual lives on other social media for something that’s still a bit buggy and not used by a lot of people. Well there’s a lot of people on the fediverse but a lot (A LOT) less than on other social media platforms.