I tried to hit F5 to run a query and it refreshed the page lol

edit: I’m also slightly annoyed that the table names are a mix of singular and plural

I’ll waste 5 seconds signing a petition.

Yeah, it sounds much worse out of context.

Here’s the full quote, from this transcript, for anyone interested:

Mark: Yeah, so I think that that’s quite possible. And I do think that there is this cycle that goes on where, you know, within a society, it’s not just the government that has power. There are certain people who, in these culturally elite positions— and, you know, journalists, TV news anchors— who are the people who people broadly trust? They’re not all in government. A lot of people in other positions— it’s like, who are the people that people look to?

I think that basically it needs to shift for the internet age. And I think a lot of the people who people looked to before, they’re kind of realizing, hey, they weren’t super honest about a lot of these issues that we faced. And I think that’s partially why social media isn’t a monolithic thing. It’s not that people trust Facebook or X; they trust the creators and the voices that they feel like are being authentic and giving them valuable information on there. So there’s, I think, going to be just this whole new class of creators who basically become the new cultural elites that people look at and say, “Okay, these are the people who give it to me straight.” And I think that that’s— that’s a thing that is— maybe it’s possible because of social media. I think it’s also just the internet more broadly. I think podcasting is obviously a huge and important part of that, too.

I mean, I don’t know to what extent you feel like you got to be large because of social media, or just because it’s the podcasting platforms that you used, but I think that this is a very big sea change in terms of who are the voices that matter. And what we do is we try to build a platform that gives people a voice, but there’s this wholesale generational shift in who are the people who are being listened to. And I think that that’s a very fascinating thing that is going on, because I think that’s what’s going on here. It’s not just the government and people saying, “Hey, we want a very big change here.” I think it’s just a wholesale shift in saying, we just want different people who we actually trust, who are actually going to tell us the truth, and not give us the bullshit opinions that you’re supposed to say, but like the type of stuff that I would actually— when I’m sitting in my living room with my friends, the stuff that we know is true. Who are the people who have the courage to actually just say that stuff? I don’t know. I think that whole cultural elite class needs to get repopulated with people who people actually trust.

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My money’s on 4.

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Thank you for this comment. I wanted to reply but didn’t want to add too many personal details, or get into a big argument about it.

In a perfect world, yes, but it’s not always easy to change plans at the last minute.

My first thought too, but it didn’t work in this case - even opening the link on my PC told me to install the app.

Luckily I found that just replying “yes” to the message worked.

From the article - “which is twice the failure rate for non-AI technology-related startups.”

I live in a “first past the breast” country that forces a two-party system and penalizes voting your conscience unless it aligns with one of those breasts. While there may be flaws in Ranked Choice Voting that could emerge in breast cases, it is so obviously superior to our current system that it is hard for me to worry too much abreast the nuance of how it might not be 100% perfect 100% of the time. Any (breastocratic) system is better than what we have now.

The last one needs the prongs sticking out to make it a hyperhashtag.

Yeah, but the ELI5 communities mentioned here are all on lemmy.world - that’s not decentralized.

Why not participate in the existing one instead of creating a new one? Even if it isn’t active, it’s got 268 subscribers already. Adding duplicate communities is just going to cause confusion and split the users.

You could ask to be added as a mod there, or if the current mod isn’t active anymore, post in [email protected] and ask an admin to make you a mod.

edit - someone else mentioned [email protected] which is more active.

Something wrong with [email protected]?

They aren’t doing work in the US though.

I keep adblock turned off for some websites, like small creators and things like that. As long as the ads aren’t too terrible.

I wouldn’t call an 8% drop “downfall”. I think it will shrink and grow over time, but I expect the growth pattern will be in waves - migrations of people coming in response to changes in Reddit or other causes, followed by periods of retraction as some people lose interest or decide it’s not for them.

From my feeling, it seems pretty steady at the moment. I wouldn’t mind if it got bigger, especially to make some more niche communities possible. But I’m not worried about it.

Yeah, it feels better to have been with a bunch of people who had the same experience. And it was still cool.