Still thinking about how tabs and bookmarks are basically the same thing, and how lots of other features are also the same thing

Their rules are on their front page.

Edit: OP said this:

this might just be the app I’m using but they don’t even have any fucking rules to look at lmao.

I’m literally just responding to it. Thanks for the downvotes 🤡

Rule 1 aka you can’t point out the moderators overt bias or conjecture as to why their bias exists.

Ten years of tech activism have taught us something uncomfortable: #mainstreaming crew carries the assumptions of forty years of #neoliberalism and #postmodernism, dressed up as unquestionable "common sense".

That common sense narrows imagination by training people to see society through individual competition, personal identity and market logic, while making collective responsibility, solidarity and shared ownership harder to recognize.

Challenge these assumptions and the response is blinded defensiveness or hostility. The problem isn't simply resistance to new ideas, it's that the dominant culture has made alternatives difficult to see, discuss or organize around.

Prod too hard and they retreat into their shells like snails!

Our #openweb native path is to build the grassroots cultures and social structures that can mediate this mess. We need to challenge the assumptions without allowing every disagreement to collapse into personal conflict.

We aren't here to endlessly accommodate #mainstreaming common sense. We're here to create the space and collective confidence to move beyond it.

The task isn't to mainstream the alternative. It's to rebuild the native culture that makes alternatives possible.

That's what #OMN and the #4opens are about.

@Paul @anarodrigues I’m sure the Manchester WordPress User Group would welcome you, even if you’re not doing WordPress. Lovely bunch of folks. Look up @rhyswynne

OH: "The origin of Free Software was RMS having a tantrum about a printer."

🖨️

cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/37870004

reddit got bad because spez (the reddit admin) restricted API access to the platform for third-party apps, such that people would be forced to use the official app or web UI, both of which display advertisement and collect user data (e.g. scroll behavior).

the reason why this happened is because reddit is a for-profit company and tries to extract money out of the userbase, at the expense of the users.

another example of a bad decision that reddit made was to push a lot of ragebait (“Am I The Asshole?”) because company shareholders want to see “engagement numbers” go up, and if somebody writes an angry reply to a post, that’s “engagement”. but it makes you angry at the stupidity of the “Asshole”, so it makes your day worse. that is another example how reddit makes money at the expense of the users.

size (number of monthly active users) is not what made reddit bad. commercialization is.

we should probably get rid of the “don’t make lemmy grow, it will ruin the platform if we grow” idea.

@TheBreadmonkey

Have you asked Donald?

https://youtu.be/4yw0bLHTOb0

@futurebird Ugh. It seems they used a since-banned insecticide called Mirex. Human carcinogen. Persistent in the environment and bioaccumulates in the food chain. Don't doubt I was exposed to this stuff as a kid (if nothing else while looking at those planes close up!). I vaguely recall my dad telling me not to touch them, but I can hardly be sure of that. (Wow. Just found pictures and some info on the planes I saw: https://www.aerovintage.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4762 )

Fwiw, one can be a Marxist Leninist and think Russia’s government sucks. It is anything but Marxist or Leninist.

I know you didn’t mean that, but figured it needed to be said.

here's a take that'll please no one: the belief that computers are difficult to use—especially foss and tools related to programming—is mostly constructed by politics and marketing, not by any inherent characteristics of the software. reasoning: (a) people master very complicated and user-hostile processes *all the time*. knitting, driving a car on the interstate, playing a musical instrument, being a baseball fan, using the subway—all just as complicated imo as (e.g.) learning the command line

うげ

@mario I think I really cannot stay at your place any more 😫

@Carlos@moppels.bar alles im tea

Sooooo I got finally tested for respiratory allergies and it turns out that I am mega allergic to cats.

The maximum value not to be allergic is 0.34, and my value is 70.1, 200 times above. Arghhhhh

reddit got bad because spez (the reddit admin) restricted API access to the platform for third-party apps, such that people would be forced to use the official app or web UI, both of which display advertisement and collect user data (e.g. scroll behavior).

Reddit got bad long before they restricted API access. That's what was the final drop for many people, but it wasn't the beginning at all.

I agree that growing would be a benefit for Lemmy though. While I wouldn't dismiss the dangers of a growing community entirely, we can just defederate from or block problematic parts in theory. So I wouldn't say we're in quite the same danger as centralized platforms.

This isn't restricted to classicists either. I'm confident that most people who have a degree in japanese studies can not meaningfully read or speak japanese.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@rania40/117597056045675205

If someone tells you they support Israel, this is what they support and you’re clearly talking to a sick fuck. Make sure you tell them as much and in so many words. (And make sure everyone around you hears you.)

(That’s what I’ll be doing, anyway.)