Default instances would go a long way, I know there’s a lot of hate for lemmy.world but defaulting to the biggest instance or a random one in the top 10 would help ease some of the early friction. Users can choose an instance later when they get more comfortable with the platform.
Federation is neat but the average person just wants to scroll and chat
Lemmy feels more like a community garden while reddit felt more like a really packed lunchroom.
Here it feels like we have to cultivate seeds and grow our food from scratch since nothing is premade, there it felt like there was infinite food available and growing a garden was kinda pointless
I guess maybe I came out of lurking to practice my metaphors or something, apparently that skill could use some work
If the question is how do you revive a company with a dead reputation and little sales like Kodak, but tailored to that case specifically:
Kodak, and every other retail company, creates products that rely on not only their product, but also their brand. Companies with semi useless products sell them all the time
K-cups, somehow took an infinitely reusable thing like a coffee maker and turned it into a tiny plastic trash cup Dasani water is awful tasting, terrible for the environment, and expensive, but they go where they’re needed
And a million other examples, selling a product isn’t about being the best or even having something good. It’s really a matter of branding and marketing strategy.
Rebrand kodak to a bespoke camera with a bunch of little camera accessories, a small preview screen but a bunch of little knobs, lean into the fact that it’s not a smart phone. Print on the device like those urban outfitter cameras, make a snapchat style camera that will only keep photos for a day, do something different and target a specific audience and they could be revived as something different. Work on making a camera that can’t be reproduced by ai, human authenticity fingerprints for images or something.
Kodak as it was will very likely never make a comeback. They didn’t keep up.
I don’t disagree, but jobs are already hard to come by, pushing people out of the only jobs they can find is a rough solution
It’s pretty rare for me to think of things I’m not keen on thinking about, redirection is the key. Treat your brain like a toddler trying to touch the stove, saying no doesn’t work, you have to give both something interesting to distract them.