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#strip #illustration #art #mastoart

Big up the birthday birds. 🎂🐦‍⬛

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#Music #Fundraiser #Birthday #Musicians #Independent #FeedTheBirds

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Just like having buying and selling things is not necessarily capitalism, an organization that gets and spends money is not necessarily a company.

Wikipedia is proof you are wrong, it is possible to run large-scale services with no profit

yes, of course, but it’s not a business model. Which means decisions aren’t driven by profit. The issue isn’t about money, it’s how/why it flows

RE: https://mastodon.green/@juliette/117587859244223081

"Rep. Henry Cuellar, a battleground Democrat who’s survived previous red waves, told CNN."

Henry Cuellar, who would be in prison, but was pardoned by Trump. That's who they're quoting.

https://www.texastribune.org/2025/12/03/henry-cuellar-donald-trump-pardon-bribery/

#Geometric #lighting.

#lightbulb #light #InteriorDesign #WorldInMyEyes

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.

@sycophantic @Viss LOL Should we advertise the Fediverse? Maybe point people at Jerry's server? 🤪

hey where is that Masto post from the Gram maintainer about what a redundant pile of slop the original Zed code was?

I never got ejected and afaict I was never banned from any communities - I left voluntarily during the Rexodus, back in the before-times, prior to most AI moderation and posting.

When someone (Huffman) tells you who they are, it’s best to believe them the first time.

@ai6yr Huh. Back in the day, I always knew who the Soviet ambassador was, because it was always Anatoly Dobrynin. Times change. I never heard of this guy before.

For no particular reason, I wonder how many windows the Russian Embassy in Washington has.

@davidgerard Because disagreement on a rational basis is insufficient.

@ai6yr It's totally normal for civilian government officials to live in heavily defended enclosures, right?

I was so many splinter-subs deep at the end, having jumped ship dozens of times for each sub I liked, as it got full of “regular folks”. Or more often, insufferable people and mods.
It always went something like:
r/albinobathats>r/realalbinobathats>r/therealalbinobathats>r/albinobathats837>r/fruitfriends>r/fruitfiends>r/withgreatbatscomesgreatresponsability>r/beancurdexpansionists>r/cindysplace>r/colonyofyew

Reddit is genuinely terrible now. Have you visited recently? All is removed, posts and comments default to sorting by best instead of hot (which mixes minutes-old posts with week-old posts), there’s an algorithmic For You feed, there are constant popups to log in or use the app…

And after all that, the content you’re looking at was probably posted by a bot.

@ProPublica Shocking: Republican government doesn't give a damn about the veterans they appear to obsess about

@bethroots @pewterbaw Fair warning, I post a lot on the news too!