There are things to randomly pop up again here and make fall back into nostalgia. Such as this - https://www.osnews.com/story/146337/openindiana-hipster-2026-10-released/ : "[...] OpenIndiana is a rolling-release illumos distribution, but they do release snapshots twice a year to serve as a base for installations, which they call Hipster. The project’s just released OpenIndiana Hipster 2026.10, and it brings a number of welcome changes. [...]" Interesting. I've been into OpenSolaris back when it popped up quite enthusiastically, used it on my daily working laptop, albeit for not very long, and also - https://vault.z428.eu/?tag=opensolaris - then and now used to write about this experience. Maybe worth taking a closer look yet again; never completely lost interest in this even after things cooled down considerably when Oracle took over and subsequently made disappear Sun Microsystems as a technology unit of its own. Almost two decades, looking at the archive timestimes. Good good where did time go? (Also referring to the osnews.com article rather than the official project announcement up there, because reading osnews.com back then used to be one of my regular morning routines.) #linkdump #technology #opensolaris

@startrekgifs Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad

Attorney General Phil Weiser announces settlement with talent management company and service provider for unfair lending practices https://coag.gov/press-releases/attorney-general-phil-weiser-announces-settlement-with-talent-management-company-and-service-provider-for-unfair-lending-practices/

This.

I don’t know, size made it pretty bad. Subreddits with hundreds of thousands or more users create environments where no one is trying to have a discussion. People are just vying for attention. That creates an environment where comments are either all jokes, or all snark. It’s really, really hard to have anything that resembles a human experience in a place like that. People stop recognizing each other as people, and just treat everyone as an audience.

That makes for a pretty bad experience.

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They do ask for funding from time to time, though. It’s definitely not cost-less running a big website.

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

@LeNouvelEssai Salut, le texte alternatif est tout en capitales et ne décrit pas vraiment l'image, tu crois que tu pourrais faire un texte alternatif accessible pour éviter le validisme ?

@ThreeOhFour Is that your actual handwriting? It looks amazing!

For me reddit got bad because of grouphink and terrible moderation (you were not nice to some idiot? banned for life!). I never used any 3rd party apps (nor the official app for that matter, only the website with adblock).

Size and commercialisation generally go hand in hand. After all, how do you keep something running with infinite users submitting infinite content for free?

This is a big issue for everyone, it’s important that the fediverse understands that size might some day increase the importance of sensible business models or proactive funding initiatives to counter the growth. This doesn’t mean harmful profit models necessarily, but it does mean keeping revenues under control for individually run nodes or for archiving services for old fediverse domains that might not exist forever.

You’re basically emphasizing my point. Reddit started as a subreddit meritocracy. Any and all subreddits could have content on the front page, so long as said content received sufficient upvotes. However, atheists are the most hated religious minority in the U.S., so their content had to be suppressed to cater to commercial interests. It’s viewpoint suppression to cater to the lucrative majority.

@apps

That’s really very kind of you, but to be honest, I’d think twice about it.

I’ve experienced similar situations in amateur radio. Some stations would kindly include a small gift with a QSL card—for example, a pen or a little pennant, and so on. And then our overzealous customs authorities would suddenly demand fees from the unsuspecting recipient!

Since then, the situation has hardly gotten any easier.

Imagine someone receiving a coffee mug and having to drive 20 km to the customs office, pay for parking, fill out paperwork, and possibly even pay customs duties or processing fees on top of that. And all that for a mug that was actually meant to be a nice anniversary gift!

And declaring the mug as a gift with no value isn’t necessarily a solution either, since customs authorities may still require a realistic value.

It’s a wonderful idea, but international shipping and customs formalities could easily turn a pleasant surprise into a frustrating experience—involving hassle and costs for both you and the recipients.

@georgetakei
Sure, the Republicans rigged it to their advantage through gerrymandering.

Didn't work, though, but it was rigged.

The problem is, they get so trapped up in the vague-at-best definition of “civility”, that they allow propagandaised bullshit as lit as its polite.

This isn’t how a community should be run, and it’s why the divisionists pretty much own the comment sections in any political posts and communities.

No mods have the balls to tell these fuckos to kick bricks.

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

I don’t disagree, but I think the heavy-handed moderation was often in service of “cleaning up” to make the website more commercially palatable. Like when they pulled r/atheism as a front-page reddit.

For me, the out of control engagement bots constantly commenting on my comments was the last straw that made me leave.