Yes I forgot about the vertical too. I guess it’s because the video isn’t worth the effort to turn the phone horizontal.

How does this work? You watch 100’s of ~10 second videos in a row for hours? Trying to understand because this seems to be a common thing these days.

I have never tried tiktok and only saw some YouTube shorts. I see one or two and it annoys me because it’s clipped badly, gives bad information, or just shows something meaningless. Random loud music. The same video keeps playing on a loop as I try to think.

Even if it was great content, my brain just couldn’t stay focused beyond a couple videos. The constant changes to a new video would be exhausting for me. There’s also no time to think about what you just saw.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Graham

I remember reading that a decade ago. Weird to see something from a decade ago and to have been there on that same page way back then. Is this what being old is like?

Unfortunately I can’t read more than the beginning since it is now paywalled.

Bringing up pronouns as a straight man can become counterproductive because it just riles up the right to go after trans people.

Really it’s all about respect and situational awareness. If you are in a generally liberal area, working with the LGBT community, have trans people around, etc then go for it. But if you are around a bunch of maga guys and nobody is trans don’t bother.

The purpose of saying pronouns is to create an environment where people feel safe to disclose their pronouns. That way they don’t feel so different.

Now that you mention it, I forgot that I blocked those meme communities because it didn’t interest me.

Not sure what the average age on those are, just figured they had different tastes.

Seniors have a lot of time but can barely figure out Facebook as it is.

This is surprising to me, I actually experienced the opposite. Reddit had a lot of teens but Lemmy seems to have older posters who are more thoughtful about what they post. In my 30’s myself and wasn’t able to get anyone younger than 34 to join.

It could just be the communities you subscribed to?

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