Yeah why are you getting dumped on??? Insane

Prior to the edit people probably thought they were trying to be snarky about the rules inatead of their intent to show the rules are displayed despite the OP not seeing them.

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.

It reminds me a little of the old internet. I like how relatively small it feels, and that people post content for the sake of the content, not to promote themselves. I haven’t found my usual corners yet, the ones I used to hang out in on older platforms, but I figure that’s just a matter of time. I’m not super nostalgic for the old internet or anything, but it’s nice to find at least a hint of something human-centered somewhere.

I hope it doesn’t fall apart and that it keeps growing.

I was skeptical when I switched to Linux, but then I ditched Windows on my dual boot for good. It was a hugely positive experience, and it really felt like freedom. I’m hoping this will be the same.

And don’t be mad at me if I act totally clueless here sometimes 'cause all that is new to me.

Well they were talking about the instance (probably wrong) rather than the bot accounts (possible).

Also, is a 2 day ban really worthy of an indignant post like this?

Both fediverse softwares that support user reviews for books, both have RSS support natively (no Piefed/Misskey bridge needed), and some comments also seem discontent with Amazon's mismanagement overall.

TIL there are EVs that will show power consumption in horse-power hours (as apposed to kilowatt hours). The mind boggles.

shout out to the lemmy developers for not making us be stuck on the other site

shout out to mastodon devs for making us have a better life than on Twitter

shout out to the pixelfed devs for allowing a actual photography platform to exist

shout out to the peertube devs for helping us not be stuck on youtube until the end of time

ETA: Shout out to the server operators who make the stuff be done

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 🤡

We know…

Just amused by the juxtaposition, obviously they weren’t contradicting you (or replying to you). lol.

I’m easily amused. :)

@jascha I think that's a bug you should report with Element.
(I almost wanted to respond with "unable to decrypt")

@futurebird In The Once and Future King, T. H. White wrote about the young Arthur (before he took the sword from the stone) being changed into an ant (among other animals) to learn their values.

@whose_nose

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/ FYI @ueckueck @_rya_
#freiewaehler #afd

@futurebird I think the wavelength might be a challenge. It's a couple of inches even for 6 GHz ones, so ideally you'd want pretty big ants for efficient transmission and reception, I think. Or maybe some kind of ant array where they synchronise their phase differences or wire themselves together somehow.

On the other hand, nerve signals are pretty slow, so so the wavelength in that form ought to be tiny enough to fit inside an ant.

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