- They basically say they are, and also run explicitly tankie instance lemmygrad.ml
- Look at the modlog for lemmy.ml. Among other things, anytime someone has an opinion about China who isn't Chinese it's "Orientalism"
Reported. This sub isn't allowed to give feels (/s)
Honest question, why isn't your clubhouse over at lemmygrad enough?
The curse of the zombie hot posts strikes again!
If we comment enough, we could get this zombie thread stuck in the 'Active' feed
Lemmy's default sort is "Active" - which I believe is "most recent comment activity"
The classic reddit experience is most like the "Hot" sort option.
Lemmy's other weird default is the "feed" which can be all, local, and following. Lemmy defaults to "local", which is probably not what you want (chronological feed of posts on your home server)
Also highly recommend "blocking" communities if you don't want to see their content. (Mostly important if you browse the "All" or "local" feeds)
I prefer my porn to be 100% industry-exploited humans
Assumption 1: Meta / Mark Z are objectively untrustworthy
Assumption 2: The Fediverse is a threat to the entire internet advertising machine
Assumption 3: Threads will be a hospitable place for right wing hatemongers. Therefore, federating with it exposes our most vulnerable users and communities to a deluge of (often invisible) hate and harassment.
Assumption 4: Most of the ways that they could use their billions of users and army of programmers to slowly choke us off would go through federation
I think if you believe all four of those assumptions defederation is the clear choice
So far almost exclusively on nsfw specialized instances, with lemmynsfw.com being the largest.
Those in pursuit of pure science would probably be best served by creating an account directly on that instance
Not an advertiser but they generally know % of views ("impressions") to clicks (called click through rate) and percentage of clicks that turn into sales (called conversion rate).
For that reason, I don't think they're trying to get rid of human users completely, just the "troublemakers".
I think they want to lead the "silent majority" users into a bot advertorial content hellscape where they control all the levers of power and everything is for sale.
Are you seriously arguing that slavery wasn't profitable for plantation owners?
Aside from being dangerously close to "well actually we were doing the slaves a favor!", that argument is absolutely absurd.
Do you really think that they couldn't get more economic value out of enslaved labor than they put in in shitty food and housing? By that logic, the poor poor plantation owners could just barely scrape by on a subsistence income. Does that match up with the lavish estates that we see in the south to this day?
Aside from being illogical it's also ahistorical - milenia ago the Romans had massive slave-based plantations generating obscene wealth.
(Possible) room temperature superconductor and (possible) broad-band super-chemo in one week, eh?
If memory serves, it's in reference to the ancient mammal and also the metal band
I think you are right about the normal users but I think they alienated a big percentage of top mods. I think the consequences of that are just starting to manifest.
Did you read the article?
Such an abomination could be created. Just imagine all the over engineering that would be required.
It would run ANYTHING on ANY platform by incorporating every libc and assembler and VM and dynamic interpreter.
It runs on EVERY platform and thus it can be adequately tested on NO platform.
All the Lemmy (and Kbin) servers (instances) can theoretically talk to each other. You can follow communities on other instances and comment and post like you are used to.
You could think of each server as an independent city-state, each with it's own leaders, customs and citizens.
If two instances have a feud that can't be resolved, they will "defederate" and then their users will no longer be able to contact each other.
There are Nazi instances here in the Fediverse (for example), but they get blocked on sight so you almost never see their garbage in the feeds.
Does that help?
This is the first meme I ever posted on the internets. I miss PunditKitchen (when it was good)
My guess is admins should be able to fix it
So basically Reddit sucks at ads too 😂
He got to explain to his daughter and you got to explain to the comment section, circle of life
The gatekeepers are the instance mods/admins. The model is known to have problems....unfortunately, it's the best option we have IMO
:wqa!
Also, infinite layers of meta commentary and criticism of the meta and criticism of that criticism... I'm home
I'm imagining that as a Will and Grace gag and it's pretty great
Indeed, I am calling out to that sordid history.
Are you REALLY saying you predict no difference in how Trump vs Biden would respond such a strike?
I read that SVB was often the only bank that would do business with tech companies and their execs because of their weird balance sheets
I agree with your agreement therefore I am ENTITLED to upvotes
Yeah that's where we are very far apart.
What do you think happens on Jan 20, '25 if he is elected? The president has essentially unlimited control over both the military and all federal law enforcement.
Trump is angry and wounded.
Do you think it's just going to be a big farce like last time?
Here's a vivid description I think is much more likely.
He just couldn't handle the pressure, sadly
So say by some miracle the political will to have a General Strike builds in America in 2026. Do you want to find out if Donald Trump will bring back the proud tradition of using the US army as a strikebreaking force after he has replaced all the leadership across the military with cronies? (The president can do this at will)
Would you rather Joe Biden was president instead?
I hear he doesn't really think much of his father's moderation policies and he might be looking for social media alternatives
Do you know something we don't know? Are they secretly courting a private buyer instead of actually going for an IPO?
Lemmy really needs filter words for times like these.
I'd also like to argue that they can't talk about Reddit itself over there any more because of the pervasive manipulation and censorship so we should make space for that conversation over here.
I happen to believe fascism isn't inevitable, just has to be continually resisted. I also think that using fascism to describe anything that isn't "pure" socialism removes all the meaning from the word and makes it less useful against people like Trump.
I do, however, appreciate the good faith discussion and respect, I think we're maybe getting some consensus haha
I wasn't sure how to respond to this at the time.
I'm coming back to report that I just saw this.
I was scrolling All + Hot using Connect on Android and saw this post: https://lemmy.ml/post/57957
Judging by the influx of new comments, I wasn't the only one.
I did a little digging and I can't find any actively maintained roadmap.
They have some milestones in GitHub but they're all empty / outdated.
Never underestimate the power of shitposting
For the record, when I posted that reply the parent only read "yes 🙌"
I was saltier than I would like to be in retrospect though, I cut it out of a comment.
Damn they really hate their users