This is what Vegas looked like 6 years ago, when I decided I would never go again, at least not to the strip. Wall-to-wall fucking people on every square inch. You used to get comped things to encourage you to gamble. Those days are past. Now, you can't even park in the hotel garage at the hotel you are staying at without paying extra.

It is so tedious to listen to complaints about the "worst ever" anything when it represents a 4% fluctuation in a trend that has positively RUINED Vegas as a destination due to constant double-digit year-over-year gains.

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I don't particularly care for these two items. I used to think user-curation was a good thing, but comparing Lemmy to Reddit, I have to say I no longer feel that way. Voting matters less on Lemmy and I think it's better for it, all things considered.

Nah, everybody knows how to count, that's not secret enough. Plus it's very close to math, which as everyone knows, is just liberal bullshit. No, no, when it comes to numbers, angel numbers are what no one has told you about. You can get secret messages from your dead relatives!

Honestly TBH, they love that kinda shit. Secret societies, handshakes, codes and all that rot. They love knowing things other people don't know (as long as they're like, super easy things. None of that math and science bullshit).

Because it's about to affect big money so they sic their bots on it to shape public opinion and stomp it, like everything else.

And now Microsoft is supported in every thread by an army of stan bots.

Pretty cool to think that I could... make my bicycle ride marginally easier by carrying a propane torch with me and blowing fire between my legs?

It's awe inspiring to contemplate the evolutionary path that these majestic creatures have followed to end up living their best life in the sky, stunning vistas as far as the eye can see, lounging carelessly and being waited upon by their human manservant.

feels a lot like early Reddit. Just need more active users.

Which will, ironically, ruin it.

And here I am, I don't really like pop and I don't really like metal but put them together and I'm in heaven.

And yet, what you wrote is coherent and what he wrote is not.

Everybody is blaming SEO, which is true - but Google is also hamstrung by walled gardens.

Before Facebook, most content posted to the web was open. It could be viewed by anyone without logging in. Reddit even uses this paradigm.

But then Facebook started putting everything behind their account login and suddenly, Google can no longer spider a significant amount of the conversation going on on the Internet - and it can't link you to it either, because the link would be dead if you weren't a logged-in Facebook user. And of course it's not just Facebook.

This is why appending site:reddit.com has come into fashion in the past couple years. Reddit, being open, viewable without a login, is a fantastic source for finding people who are talking about exactly what you're searching for.

And it's another reason why Meta is cancer: all the conversations going on about whatever problem you are experiencing that made you do a search in the first place, if they exist in private groups on something like Facebook - they are useless to you and useless to anyone but the members of that private group. We are losing our giant public knowledge base because capitalism.