I'm just excited to be back in the Wild West again -- all of the big players had bumps, at least this one is working to fix them.

The nice things about the Federated universe is that, yes, you can bulk create user accounts on your own instance - and that server can then be defederated by other servers when it becomes obvious that it's going to create problems.

It's not a perfect fix and as this post demonstrated, is only really effective after a problem has been identified. At least in terms of vote manipulation from across servers, it could act if it, say, detects that 99% of new upvotes are coming from a server created yesterday with 1 post, it could at least flag it for a human to review.

Oh good, can't wait for my feed on here to be absolutely slammed with porn bots. We made it, boys.

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When Musk gets kicked out of art school, we'd better be ready

Gravity Falls?

One. One nuke could potentially disrupt it...but it's not really advised for a few reasons:

• If the conditions are still there that built up the storm, you've basically just nuked some wet air - if the pressure gradient remains and the waters are still warm, it very much could simply reform immediately
• Dumping large amounts of energy into an active system might just turn it a different direction, unpredictably; you might steer a storm right into Miami that was just going to hit some empty marshes
• Dumping large amounts of radioactive materials into a storm heading towards you might just end up making a giant somewhat radioactive hurricane, which is not great
• Puerto Rico does not appreciate you dropping nukes just offshore

Shut up and take my gold.

Wait.

Typically people will prefer the option that gives them a $50 water bill over a $200 one.

Bit of a blind spot there

I just want to know where they got those extra-long bootstraps

I can't speak for Apollo but I used RIF and old.Reddit

I work with a bunch of techies with various opinions on this; he said I like "an app that looks like it was from 10 years ago", which was meant to be an insult, but I think is actually the point: it was text-first, list view, "get out of your way" to enjoy the content.

I don't like advertising pretending to be content.

I don't like the integrations that pushed paid crap like their version of Bitcoin.

And I am here because even though Reddit is still active, it's clear that the ship is being sailed solely by momentum at this point and the company is, well, only going up be able to do so much until they can't pay what little staff they have. The way the mods and app developers were treated this month was the lowest of the low and sealed my decision.

A soul is at best a description of the electrical and quantum interactions that take place in our brain, a personified phenotype of the sum of these things occurring in our head (and to a degree our eyes, mouth, ears, and skin).

I don't believe in the soul in the traditional sense as it implies that there is one version of me -- is my soul my 9yo self, my 20-something alcoholic self, the self as of this moment, or my Alzheimer's-ridden self when I die? If it's supposed to be a "perfect" version of me when I pass, then it's kind of funny, because my spirit is, in a sense, a version of me that I've never actually met and wouldn't recognize.

We had tried this in SC in expanding one of our sites from one to three. It did not go terribly well.

If you're trying to find work if the remote gig fails, good friggin luck

Are you shitting on the picture or the post itself? How do you plan to get up there? If you're standing on it, how can you be sure it will land on the post and on the ground?

So many questions.

Gotta have a place to leave lists of their IRC servers

frantically gestures at everything

Currently Arch with KDE, switched recently from Gnome. Probably gonna swap to something a little more basic for the desktop environment, it's pretty but in the words of Peter Griffin, "It insists on itself"

Yeah, they make Link Amps

I'm now your friend too. Sorry.

It'll never work.

thank Mr. Skeletal

I get more responses here than I ever did at Reddit. Like you can engaged in a conversation, not just try to figure out the stupidest thing to say to get the most votes and making sure you post at like, 4am for maximum exposure

I suspect what will happen with the Federated universe as a whole is what happened to Linux - companies will start using the products, contribute to them, and it becomes this weird corporate/open source hybrid as the main devs, however good, simply won't have the same level of resources as say FAANG to throw at these problems

Yeah, having big companies run everything was terrible but at least you had like, a team of peeps whose job it was to make sure that the whole company didn't implode due to a breach (because they would at a minimum be out of work or worse never get a job in the field).

Unrelated but someone needs to port Bobby B bot over here

I'm in the same boat, but coming from RIF. Tried to use Mastodon before but wasn't huge on the interface. I'm pleasantly surprised so far, I'm using Connect for Lemmy with reverse list view and it's ...not terribly dissimilar.

That said, it's obviously still new, and slow. I'm going to see where this goes.

Some say he's still not pooping to this day