5 hours tiktok scrolling is an addiction

It’s not the same category of social media though.

You’ve got (sorted by best to worst)

• content sharing/streaming (Youtube, Netflix, Spotify, Soundcloud)
• “private” messengers (WhatsApp, Signal, FB Messenger)
• public messengers (Discord, Matrix, Telegram)
• forums (Reddit, Stackoverflow, Lemmy)
• microblogs (BlueSky, Twitter, Mastodon)
• personality cult (Instagram, Facebook, Linkedin)
• infinite scroll (Tiktok, IG reels)
• etc.

Each of these can be called social media, but they serve different purposes and some are more harmful than others

No lemmy is echo chamber

This is one of the two factors for the bad reputation of France from US, the other one is the cultural shock that French people prefer genuine conversation and hate small talk, they’d find random american’s conversation superficial and faked.

I am neighboring France and we have kinda similar culture, though people here tend to dislike some French people for their lack of patience or accountability and their pride, though it’s a stereotype, as always.

You just described any big city

I failed to see the randomness then because it’s way too similar content way too quickly

I found language transfer very weird as you start with way too much english and I guess you need to jump at least 4 hours to learn interesting things

Hate is justified as it turns people away from actually learning a language

I know spaced repetition, but it’s too much repetition and not enough space. The jump ahead feature is bad because you just do the quiz twice until you success then you jumped without knowing previous stuff and you’re stuck with once again slow minded repetition just that it’s now a more “advanced” vocabulary

Start by installing Windows on your phone

And it’s so fucking slow. Like yeah I remember the word for man and woman please stop asking me to click on it especially with the image next to it…

Libertarian and Republicans have nothing in common do not mix

correct

Or because the left-right axis makes no sense

Some people just want to be offended

You know AI can mean more than generative AI slop ?

I was lucky to successfully move my girlfriend, two friend group chats and my family ones so 14 people 😁 They still use other messengers but at least they use Signal on a daily basis

Multiple people group calls with optional webcam and screensharing as well as the asymmetric conferences where there is a main speaker and people can request right to speak. Additionally Discord allows for multiple voice channels so you can have multiple such calls in parallel.

Basically the same features you have in teams, zoom, skype, etc. but I hate all of them. I wish I could find some open source alternative that is decent/known, matrix should implement those imo

They have no ethics, so they follow what’s trendy

Exactly this makes no sense. Which tool would force subtitles