• TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    I just… I could never comprehend twitter (or Mastadon, or bluesky for that matter).

    The whole structure of the conversation feel like people shouting into an open auditorium. And everyone is shouting at once.

    I just do not see the appeal.

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      1 month ago

      Me too. Tried twitter way back in the early days of it. Never found it useful. Others did though obviously, which I don’t understand, but they did. What I find interesting is the seeming need to replace it with something similar. Why? Is it like gradually kicking an addiction by switching to something slightly less bad, but not going full cold turkey?

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        1 month ago

        What I find interesting is the seeming need to replace it with something similar. Why?

        Oh yeah. Why? Yeah… yeah I could never imagine leaving one toxic social media and then trying to find a similar replacement…

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      1 month ago

      Small notes to be answered rarely.

      I’ve looked at the early Usenet archives, and typical posts there resembled this format quite a lot. It’s later that Usenet became a place where you write long considerate posts, and also expect rather quick answers.

      It’s actually interesting to communicate in a rare terse format.

      The reason I don’t use Twitter, BlueSky, anything like that is - I don’t have a scenario of it being useful for me.

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        1 month ago

        I follow some economist guys, they are always sharing some graphs and chart data that help people to invest efficiently on the local stock market. Some talk to them and I follow the conversations as they are really interesting. But I don’t talk to them.

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          1 month ago

          Asking as a layman, isn’t it well established that the stock market is extremely efficient and that active trading underperforms (for the same risk level) passively buying the market? Or does this not apply to very local markets?

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            1 month ago

            Indeed. At least it does here in south America. Actually active trading is discouraged because you are always running after the price change.

            As you say, performance wise, you either go random or buying ETFs for good overall performers indexes, like s&p or the DOW