Because the steps for Xitter were :

1. Want a Xitter
2. Go to Xitter
3. Create an account
4. Enjoy(?) Xitter

Even one extra step that adds friction can lead to you just not doing the thing.

Mega-corpos spend billions to reduce the number of steps to your wallet, because they make it back tenfold.

Update: 8 hours later, no change.

Update: Yep, still nothing.

I’ll check again after 24 hours to see if Lemmy does anything.

The Linux Experiment showed content, but Coffeezilla and Louis Rossman show empty for some reason.

The last two paragraphs are tangentially about the fire, and don’t engage with the anger at all - which was the subject of the headline.

It’s like I was watching a news segment where they stop reporting and cut to a talking head who started analyzing political responses to the fire.

How much Chinese companies are donating to relief efforts and the political parallels of an election being delayed (covid before, the fire now) are tangentially related, but in my opinion, that’s no longer focused on “Anger swelling in Hong Kong over deadliest fire in more than 70 years”.

TL;Dr: They want the Hong Kong leader to focus on the renovation company’s possible corruption, not the bamboo that didn’t burn.

The Hong Kong leader responded to the fire by promising to replace (traditional Hong Kong) bamboo scaffolding with (mainland China) steel, because they’re claiming it might have been an accelerant.

Residents argue that this is a distraction (most of the bamboo is still standing) from the real issue: the company doing the renovation/maintenance seems shoddy/corrupt and should be investigated.

At this point, the article gets unfocused and jumps around a lot.

By the end, she’s talking about the upcoming elections being compromised by the Chinese government.

Who do you think you’re stealing it from? The bank?

Awesome. Although I can’t tell whether comments weren’t migrated or the original posts just didn’t have any.

Loving-kindness meditation is a practice that encourages you to extend compassion to yourself and then train it like a muscle to be extended further and further out.

Patriotism is love at the national level, but it doesn’t ask you to stop at the border (that’s nationalism).

People should be encouraged to love at the level they can sustain: self > friends & family > community > region > country (patriotism is here) > neighboring countries, etc > world.

Can you carry over the posts and comments to the new community?

If the community has to start over from zero, that can be a huge loss.

Counterpoint: 97% of Listeners Couldn’t Tell AI Music from Real Artists, Based on Blind Tests

Whoever came up with the idea of sharing them as a gmail-clone is a genius.

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