primalanimist

The nice thing about Lemmy is, it doesn't care if you "go back to reddit". Nobody is monetizing you here so nobody is incentivized to try and get you to stay. Not having fun using Lemmy? Go on then. Reddit is probably where you are happiest. This is a newish system that has exploded. If you can't be inconvenienced by glitches and growing pains in a FREE service, by all means, go be a product for Reddit to sell.

I doubt anyone could pay the man enough to blow 40 billion to tank a website. The moment you break something, the users will find a replacement and go there. This purchase was 100% ego. It changed no minds about Elon. His fanboys will still call this genius, and those who already knew he was a manchild are not suddenly thinking this was a mature, well-thought-out plan.

I did some work for a couple of catholic churches in my area (which was getting them set up on the special accounting software that their diocese requires them to use). These are small jesuit churches, that are supposedly giving everything they can to help the poor in the community. But I noticed their checking accounts had over $100k sitting in it, and the savings account was even more. This is a very poor area in the rural south. According to the 2020 census data, the average person's income here is $26k a year.

I'm not a catholic, but after listening to them, it felt a LOT like I was working with the Soprano family lol. Every church in the diocese has to kick up money to the Bishop, just like Tony's crew always had to pay up to him. LOL

I don't know how much they help others in the area, financially, but I think they could probably ramp that up a little.

Over 50% of its advertisers left. That means most of the brands are not interested in the kind of people left in the toxic wasteland called X.

I want to help control the activities of the CIA. Hmm, I know, let's build a wall, that will certainly stop the CIA. If this was just about the CIA, we wouldn't be talking about building a wall because of just how stupid that sounds. The CIA can be stopped with a wall? They have the power to smuggle drugs into Mexico, to be sold in the US. You think they are going to let a wall stop them? LOL No, this has never been about stopping the CIA and more about political ideologies and wasting more taxpayer money on NOT the taxpayers.

ChatGPT is my go to now for any question as long as it's not about current events. 99% of my questions are like "how do I ..."

I like the idea of a more nuanced upvote. It's much more useful. Also I agree with you about a reputation system. No matter what you have in place, users will find a way to exploit it. I think a breakdown of the communities that contribute to a reputation score would actually be useful rather than a generic single score. I love both your ideas. I give it the HELPFUL💁 upvote.

It's not a tech-classist thing, it's a human thing. At our core, we are tribal. We take sides. Android vs. iPhone. Windows vs. Mac. Linux vs. everyone. Sports team A vs. Sports team B. Republican vs. Democrat. Musk vs. Zuck. Cats vs. Dogs. Everything. We take sides on everything.