AITA for reacting in a completely appropriate way but I'd like some validation anyway?
I am, and I've noticed one welcomed effect it has had in me.
I'll admit I had an unhealthy phone habit of mindlessly scrolling and Reddit nurtured this.
As much as I'm excited about Lemmy - the barriers I'm finding of finding content that appeases my desire to scroll has greatly reduced my phone usage. Smaller user base, inability (for me anyway) to find communities and content through the search etc.
Lemmy is just good enough for me not to go back to Reddit, but not matured enough to replace the addition.
Some serious rose tinted glasses looking back on history there! At what point in time are you thinking about? For most of history I'd have had fealty to some land owner. I'd say we have more freedom and opertunity to experience the world now than before.
You can still explore the planet for yourself, just because something has been experienced by someone before you shouldn't take too much away from your joy if experiencing it.
Wouldn't we be Lemmings?
I've never heard about this. You should send an email to all the developers of the 3rd party Lemmy apps to let them know. Could be a good consideration to allow to disable this in accessibility features.
Even if we were able to live in complete harmony with the planet and not exhaust our resources we'd undoubtedly go extinct for one reason or another. I'm not necessarily talking about resources.
But yeah, what you've described is how we're existing at present anyway.
Because ultimately if we don't leave this rock we go extinct. Guaranteed.
I disagree, if you've looked at all the advances in technology made over the last 1,2,300 years. If there was to be a great extinction event with some survivors - they'd bounce back relatively quickly.
Maybe I've consumed too much sci-fi over the years. I've always thought the primary goal should be that of making this species a space fairing one. Secondary, they to extend the life of this planet as much as possible. It will die one day, that's unavoidable.
At the present, it looks like neither are being achieved. It's all just going to collapse on itself. Maybe the human population 2.0 can resurface and try again after the planet kills almost everyone.
I feel sorry for the younger generation and my peers with children.
The 3rd party app developers might just do that. Boost for Reddit is making Boost for Lemmy now.
Amazing news, boost was my preferred Reddit app and I've requested it to download as soon as it's available (that's not an option I've seen before).
This is my first Lemmy post, how exciting.
Do this, then visit https://ninite.com/ and choose what you want installed on it.