BREAKING NEWS: $HEAD (Headless Corps) widely believed to dump gains from $PORN (PornHub) #BreakingNews
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Hal
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I didn’t even think about it but now I see how confusing that would be!
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mad_lentil@lemmy.ca
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Splinter communities are one of the simplest, easiest ways to solve issues associated with growing too large. It’s incredibly frustrating that FOMO apparently drives users, turning splinter communities either into deserts or just the new overcrowded space.
100 spaces with 500 active users are more active, more interesting, and more manageable than 1 space with 50,000, but users seem to think their choices is to subscribe to one big group, or 100 small ones, and not just the one small one that vibes with them best.
The ground is *littered* with these little mini-scandals, only a fraction of which have come to light. Dems should spend the next 2 years putting one after another after another into the headlines. That's what it's going to take for the scale of the corruption to sink in for the public: a drumbeat.
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Ian Littman
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The PHP London group will have a social meet-up next week, near Tottenham Court Road.
On PHP 8.6 release day!
Chat, drinks, and elephpants, what more do you need?
https://www.meetup.com/phplondon/events/317383485/
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girsaysdoom@sh.itjust.works
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size is not what made reddit bad. commercialization is.
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.
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mad_lentil@lemmy.ca
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Yes, stupid huge ads like that spaced out looking bird in the Etsy ad. They make me want to avoid the companies that advertise on there with obnoxious ads lol. Also suspending people for deriding nazis and laying blame where it belongs is BS. Demanding liberty, freedom and justice for all is good, including women and all discriminated people, supernatural excuses or not, all must be free to self-actualize and unfold their DNA how they choose.
Asher wasn't into being a lion-cat 😹😾😹
#CatsOfMastodon #CaturdayEveryday #CatLovers #CatsOfTheFediverse #CatContent #FediCats
@PhoenixSerenity LOL. Asher is so cute. He really doesn’t look amused though.
@woozle someone linked a 90s-styled website that provides a synchronized schedule of programming mostly derived from VCR rips of actual TV broadcasts (https://spelunkr.tv/), and of course those rips also include whichever commercials were on air at that time
one thing that also surprised me is how these commercians are allowed to just call out competing products by name -- over here, you would hear ads talk about how their brand of detergent is superior to the "regular" detergent or is labeled #1 by some organization, but it would never outright mention competitors by name -- in fact, when someone did register a "regular" brand detergent, those commercials also had to change
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China drops carbon emissions, while western tech bros build more like they made a deal with the devil.
@gimulnautti @CelloMomOnCars remember 10 years ago when every argument about lowering emissions in Canada ended with the oil idiots saying “But it doesn’t matter because China”.
Welp….
Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
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Wherever you are in the world, what's the wild mammal you see most often ("wild" here defined as not a domestic animal, and not in captivity)?
For me, in Quebec, Canada, it's undoubtedly the eastern grey squirrel.
@idzie definitely the eastern grey squirrel here in nyc/brooklyn. though the one in particular that i've been seeing the most often lately on my fire escape is melanistic (black coat)
Španělsko ochromila generální stávka, po celé zemi se konají demonstrace
https://ct24.ceskatelevize.cz/clanek/svet/spanelsko-ochromila-generalni-stavka-po-cele-zemi-se-cekaji-demonstrace-379512
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More than one million people in Lebanon face acute food shortages, UN says https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/11/11/one-million-people-in-lebanon-facing-acute-food-insecurity-un-says?traffic_source=rss
Ms. Que Banh
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One of my daughter’s trans friends in college took their life.
The holidays can be brutal to trans people who must face judgmental family members.
If you know of a sympathetic venue, consider hosting a discreet trans-prominent holiday party to all of all of the awful sweaters, gross egg nog, and no judgement.
Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@CelloMomOnCars/117585406093286420
China drops carbon emissions, while western tech bros build more like they made a deal with the devil.
Screenshot of the photo.
@nomdeb It looks like he's holding the top part of the door frame.
