Mir offers another business metaphor for the tension on Reddit: “If you have a really good music venue, but you break relations with every notable artist, you’re not going to be a very successful venue. You need to really prioritize the needs of the folks providing the value on your platform.”

Brilliant. Reddit looks out at a crowd of people at a packed show and says "ok we could lose 5%". But those are the ones who return another night as musicians. And you cant run a music venue long term with open mic 7 nights per week.

working hard and nepotism aren't mutually exclusive

In US/Europe when cops would do this in bathrooms, parks, bars, bookshops etc they'd get the BJ first before doing the arrest/beating/robbery/roughride.... you know to really be sure the guy was for real. Mostly stopped since the 90s.

But the defendant still has to put the funds up in the first place? It's a huge gamble and most people don't even have the ante available.

Is there anywhere in the world that has a robust and comprehensive public funding for legal entanglements of all types?

For scale:

According to wikipedia the population of finland is 5.6 million.

when I start writing this comment, the post is 47 minutes old. if I understand the linked page properly, lemmy.world has been functional (all green checkmarks) for the past 10 minutes which is the furthest back the data goes. All the other instances are all green except for lemmy.one which is all red. I am assuming that 47 minutes ago, lemmy.world had red boxes?

Maybe a different link would have explained the point better but I don't really see how a 30 minute (??) server outage during an upgrade is compelling to avoid a large instance. Are you suggesting it's better to use a server whos admins don't upgrade? If not, is there really any size of server that would meaningfully avoid this kind of occasional disruption? Seems to me that the dynamism of the environment will inevitably lead to various problems. That's part of the experience. TBH threadiverse uptime on the whole is pretty impressive for such a ragtag groups of admins and devs.

I have accounts on some smaller servers but they have their drawbacks too. Using a bigger server is more convenient because the people and content is already there. It's easier. I didn't plan to use lemmy.world but I ended up making account there to use sometimes.

I think in a year or so the situation might be different. I see the ideological point and I would like it to be true. Maybe the technology will catch up. I think it would be nice to be able to programmatically seed content, but maybe that would be obnoxious to admins.

Can’t we just find a new way of monetize stuff without ads?

Yes it's called taxation and public funding.

Governments should prioritize floss projects when running their infrastructure and other projects. Our money is paying for these projects. We should have access to all the products of that labor.

Furthermore they should give out money for non-business cases like games and other stuff just like arts funding.

We have private corps stepping in to do this sort of thing with "google summer of code". But it would be better through some nominally democratic structure.

In all cases governments and their agents should be good floss community members. "Free like puppies"

I think this is the most level headed pro-mbin comment I ever read.

If the project could attract and retain more of this energy it would only be a good thing.

you can but preserve your sanity and stay away from it

the FLOSS alternative https://github.com/NeoApplications/Neo-Launcher/

I don't have a play store link if you do please post it for those in need

Have any of these referendums happened? I have not been able to follow all this

I think that would be great!

Not that it wouldn't be worthwhile anyway, but as a general thing, changes which greatly improve accessibility for some tend to be positive for everyone. I think that above post really demonstrates that. The /r/Blind users were using the same 3rd party apps as everyone else. Contrary to what reddit is trying to say, there are not particular "accessibility"-only apps. Like there's no daisy reddit. Being accessible was part of the general high quality, thoughtful design. And now they are being told to use the same low quality, shitty tools which nobody else wants to use, but they can't use. Accessibility goes hand in hand with quality. No news to you I'm sure.

I would be shocked (and sad) to learn if the devs here wouldn't appreciate PRs from a knowledgeable contributor along these lines. I think it could be hard to prioritize doing these things already because of how many bazillions of communications are coming in from people who are already using the platform. And if the main dev doesn't have expertise in this area it is also easier to apply oneself to the many problems you do know how to solve rather than going off on a research project.. (I have no idea about the skills of the kbin devs.)

a lot of pups

I found there was too much cat stuff on threadiverse at first. I enjoy a cat in a box or a cat on a keyboard or "this is my life now" or even wearing a kitten as a hat here or there but the whole things was cats cats cats with arch linux memes mixed in.

a pup fucking a pumpkin

oh pups. lol.

It's a bit weird to only be on discord don't you think?

do they just post their code in a chat or something?

Reddit demonstrated some accessible designs

no they didn't

, the meeting highlighted Reddit's prioritization of user accessibility over moderator accessibility,

wrong, they aren't caring about anyone's accessibility

tldr: reading the last paragraph (traditionally known as a "conclusion") would be more useful than reading dumb bullshit chat gpt

In the US context, the founding of public libraries were most famously and substantially supported by Carnegie. A man of "crime and robbery" if there ever was one. When you hear "philanthropist" think "tax evasion". Not to mention how he came into possession of all that loot in the first place.

I agree with the author's point broadly but it's not well made.

It seems like the absolute most chaotic decision for anyone. Any community where any tension exists will be having constant campaigning for recalls.

The king is instituting one component of democracy because he thinks the peasents will vote his way for one specific issue. But even in the immediate term this will cause more grief than the reddit blackout ever did.

I can think of a few specific communities where there has been significant long term resentments against the mods. Particularly as the mods have enforced rules on the community to avoid being kicked off reddit. I bet within 1 week, all or most of these will have mod recall votes going to remove the mods. If successful the subs will be full of reddit rule breaking straight away. The new mods will not mod.

Its really hard to tell if he just wants the website out of his life or what. Maybe buddy just needs a change personally.

Fediverse boycott did it!

Lol jk

Good news tho. Hope everyone over at zuck corp is starting to feel bad about themselves again.

I love wearing a mask it makes me feel like a ninja

In the past 2 weeks i have seen the sub /r/anarchychess mentioned on i think 6 different occasions. Yet i never go look up what the heck it is.

Just tell me one thing: is the board red and black, or yellow and black?

Edit: or red and purple or other combo

it's this or plastic surgery

In just two days, researchers found 112 instances of known CSAM across 325,000 posts

“We got more photoDNA hits in a two-day period than we’ve probably had in the entire history of our organization of doing any kind of social media analysis, and it’s not even close,”

In the whole history of this group they have found less than 112 pieces of CSAM? It's Stanford University. Why not drop in on a few of Jeffery Epstein's friends and fans. They can tell you were to look.

RIP Einar Egilsson

I use free, donation and paid services happily. Not against any model.

I do not think paid services are as stable as you are imagining. Lots of paid services go dark all the time. Even major ones.

I think the most stable would be to either run your own or pay someone to run one for you on a VPS. And for community stability, donate to various servers.

For long term, government/nonprofit funding would be good to have I think.

Or you just stood around waiting for a person for 2 hours with no way to learn if they were running late or blowing you off or dead.

@TheVillageGuy take a look at this post that showed up on my feed along with the present one: Why I started Sublinks: A timeline of events.

It seems like this person had a somewhat similar experience to yourselves in that they were frustrated with the development of lemmy. Some effort was made to contribute but it didn't work out. The frustrations mounted and eventually a new project was the only way forward.

Same the mbin folks, a chat server was a useful off-threadiverse venue where ideas coalesced and relationships were built. As a participant in mbin do you catch my drift that they are roughly parallel trajectories? I'm not in either community don't know the details.

But notice how the problems with other people or orgs is only mentioned in that they are relevant to this story. And while it does allude to some problems which were emotionally taxing, the focus on what was done to fix it and the outcomes.

So far the mbin project still exists and I do see people using it. If it's going to be a long term thing youse should consider how you are representing yourselves. Being a weird Earnest accountability stalker is off putting. If you were doing it on your own behalf it would be a little disturbing. But you so clearly are doing it as some sort of ambassador in order to suggest people use mbin; and other mbin people have said similar things so I am not intending to single you out. This behaviour makes you and by extension mbin seem like a bunch of unhinged petty drama queens. It give a shine to the project as a whole. It is unnecessary. It will continue to have no helpful impact on the outcomes of kbin.

I think it is possible at this point to set a new tone if you want. Try the link, maybe even get to know these folks if you don't already because I bet it would be productive. Youse are probably facing similar issues with federation. Just need to decide what chat software to use.

well on its way to become the defacto centralized Git hoster.

If this isn't Github already, what is?

I love the way of describing Free Software. Paraphrasing and I don't recall the source: "Not free as in speech or free as in beer. Free as in puppies." You can get a puppy for free but then you have to take care of it all the time, and it incurs costs like vet visits. Free Software can be the same way.

Reminds me of some folks in school who were horrified that others were sitting on tables/desks. The idea that you'd put your butt where someone would eat seen as highly disrespectful.

just before the reddit strike there was a thread on /r/askhistorians about wearing layers in hot climates specifically referencing some cowboy-type TV shows. the historians were talking about how linens and even properly woven wool are a lot more comfortable in heat than cotton.

I have some linen and I can see it being the case but the cuts/styles are not to my liking. Maybe I will have some tailored one day.

I used to used floccus but it's been a while.

See also: https://github.com৻( •̀ ᗜ •́ ৻) -selfhosted৻( •̀ ᗜ •́ ৻) -selfhosted#bookmarks-and-link-sharing

edit: wtf the word "a w e s o m e " is converted into ৻( •̀ ᗜ •́ ৻) when I paste or type it. Is this coming from kbin or have I installed something weird on my computer?

You should also include a link to sublinks or say what it is or something?

that actually explains why i find matrix so annoying, thanks.

Idk anything about this person in specific but my guess is that @ferralcat is referring to "legacy students". If you search for that term alone or in combination with "Standford" you can read all about what those words mean. The words have very well-understood meanings. For example:

Nearly 18% of Class of 2023 are legacy students or relatives of donors, report reveals

Who deleted your account? You or them?

I thought it was a mff hookup app

the beehaw admins have never pretended to be anything other than opinionated. the underlined articles sound stupid and I'm sure nobody is missing your dumb shit.

you are tedious and boring here also.

I think worse actually. They want to say "we are meeting with the /r/Blind mods and had a productive conversation, we are working with them, blah blah blah"

They are cynically using /r/Blind as an empty "virtue signal" type thing.

Also I saw various people suggesting ADA lawsuits. I presume this sort of thing delays that sort of action.

"I miss the good old internet. This isn't a talk about how we can get the old good internet back. It's a talk about what a new good internet could be. And why we don't have it yet, and how we could get it. "

I love this guy. And he's gonna do this whole 45 minute talk wearing a mask. Total badass.

tell me why i shouldn't use plex as I'm always tempted by it whenever these threads come up and everyone who uses it is so happy.

But free/libre is so much more delicious.

But don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.