@anon_opin Common sense has no place in security theater.

Awww, only banned from the .ml asklemmy comm. I think I stumbled in there on accident when I sorted by all posts or something and didn’t realize which one it was.

Don’t worry, they also deleted anything I said to them so they don’t have to be burdened by ideas that aren’t in lockstep with a tragically idiotic reading of Marx.

Thanks for letting me know!

@Migueldeicaza alt text ?

Es ist jetzt vierzehn fünfzehntel zwei

punchroast

The Youth Olympics, first held in 2010, are under way in Dakar, Senegal right now – the first Olympic sporting event ever to be hosted on the continent. More than 2,500 teenage athletes from 205 nations are taking part.

a mathematically perfect meal for the gods

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.

@Unca if this gives you a boner, you belong in Gitmo.

Getting a ban from lemmy.ml is a badge of honour that many like to collect.

@maexchen1 Und dann? Was mach ich damit? Sketchy Firmen meine Onlinebanking-Zugangsdaten geben? Vorab-Überweisung und drei Tage länger auf meine Bestellung warten? Oder nur bei einem der drei Shops bestellen, die SEPA-Lastschriften anbieten?

Saw a post saying some shitty Christian lemmy instance was spamming bullshit on one of their latest posts, I said something along the lines of “probably Russians”. Come to find out my comment was removed and I was banned… then to find out they effectively have a CCP agent running town… lol.

I’ve seen people mention they were a garbage instance, now I know why! They said I broke rule 1 … this might just be the app I’m using but they don’t even have any fucking rules to look at lmao.

Glad they did the work for me and made it easy to avoid them.

@davidgerard I know nothing about Lori Huang or what she'd likely do with her half of the money, but it would be funny if the first thing she did was have lunch with MacKenzie Scott.

Prep for Birmingham Fetish Weekend is well underway here.

I do need to edit the class I'm teaching there so I'm not rushing through too much info and instead focusing on the true 101 info and allowing folks to really take that in.
I'm an info-dumper by nature and also as a learner I like that, so whittling it down is going to be a challenge!