My hope is that this is a shift back to a more decentralized internet.

Ragebait like noahgettheboat, idiotsincars, publicfreakout. It’s the Jerry Springer of the 2020’s.

• nuclear fusion power
• male birth control
• Metroid Prime 4
• native accessibility features for Reddit

My hope is that federation will be a good solution to these issues. Users can choose a home instance based on the types of content they do or don’t want to see. Instances with conflicting focuses or policies can defederate from one another.

I tried to look up Tumblr’s present and past Alexa rankings, but it turns out that Alexa was closed last year.

Several (attempted) murderers have owned copies of The Catcher in the Rye.

A lot of places in the US have (had?) small, weekly, free newspapers that are actually pretty good. They get by by being full of ads, often the kinds of ads more family-friendly outlets wouldn’t publish.

The lesson from GeoCities, MySpace, Yahoo Groups, etc. and now Reddit is that you can’t depend on a large corporation to host your content indefinitely.

/c/newusers would be glad to partner up

非常好

Tinder ruined dating. It’s made interactions very transactional.

Added. Thanks!

OOTL, I don’t know anything about Instagram. What is this?

It all depends on if the communities about topics I'm interested in start gaining some activity. So far it's mostly meta, memes, and remakes of the very largest subreddits, which is the type of stuff I typically ignore over there.

Documentary on him worth checking out: http://www.takepart.com/internets-own-boy

A truly phenomenal individual who worked on so much of what makes the modern Internet run: RSS, Markdown, Creative Commons, and of course was instrumental in the early days of Reddit.

All posts must be a request for advice.

Hope this rule gets applied to posts that pretend to be looking for advice but are really just seeking validation. People complain about the advice always being to break up, but IMO this is the bigger issue which keeps me away from all of the advice subreddits.

lemmy.world appears on their list of blocked instances, as well as sh.itjust.works

https://beehaw.org/post/567170

In a similar vein, a bot that links to a timezone converter.

Right-wing libertarians (this is another term with two very different meanings) are neoliberal absolutists. Center-right and center-left politicians usually have to compromise with other sets of ideals. Marijuana decriminalization and legalization is one area where right-wing politicians typically preference the social conservative side over the neoliberal/libertarian side. For a center-left example look at the Affordable Care Act. From the beginning Obama was never going to favor a true nationalized health care plan. He offered compromises within the existing framework like state exchanges.

The Chicago Boys’ role in Chile’s Pinochet dictatorship really puts the lie to the whole “freedom” angle of neoliberalism. Allying with a guy who rounded up thousands of dissidents and summarily executed them shows their freedom is only for the select few.

It was a bug, not a feature.

I can't remember anything that was a straight-up factual error. There was something along these lines from a private tutor my parents had to hire to make up for too many days I missed one semester due to health problems. One day when we were covering evolutionary biology she goes, "Well, I don't believe in this, but I'm obligated to teach it to you." Doesn't inspire a lot of confidence, but I appreciate the candor. Which reminds me of the time in middle school a girl in my class said her grandmother believed dinosaur bones were put there by the Devil and the teacher had to give an awkward response to that.

There is one common misconception among English teachers that I think everyone has heard at some point, the difference between "effect" and "affect" being different parts of speech.

Pretty low bar 😂

Looks pretty crisp on dark mode at these dimensions. I wonder if it’s enough contrast at a much smaller size.

They’ve officially branched out to Lemmy: !debatereligion@lemmy.world

From what I’ve seen they’re not so much trending as new.

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“Magazine” implies little if any input from readers (letters to the editor being the exception). It doesn’t sound very interactive.

How’s Toxic Crusader? I never got a chance to play it.

AMPutator, RSS bot, timezone bot, a bot to provide a Reddit archive URL when someone posts a Reddit URL so we don’t have to send them traffic.

It happened sometimes, but it was easier to filter those people out. Now those people have become the norm. Tinder absolutely is to blame for this.