what? The good folks at Lemmy.ml didn’t like you talking down about a dictator?

Wild!

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.

Grey-headed flying fox (Pteropus poliocephalus)

📸 Andrew Mercer (CC BY-SA)

Fuck now you’re telling me I mixed up Malaysia and Mali?! Just put me out of misery now

It’s Mali’s TLD, they just like that it lines up with Marxist-Leninist

@TheBreadmonkey I have to go to work now but have some thoughts and will toot on my return.

@gabrielesvelto "AI" fans: wow, the technology makes toothpicks all by itself! 😲 the technology:

Gigantesca manifestación en la huelga general en Barcelona con más de 300.000 catalanes en las calles por la vivienda digna.

@jwildeboer True! A lot of them end in arr..

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.

Yeah, but the tankies still love them. It’s weird. Putin openly acknowledges he’s trying to rebuild imperial Russia, not the USSR, and still.

Oh, happy day!

Chuck Hubbard appears to have ousted Virginia Foxx in NC-05 as provisionals, cured ballots counted

https://ncnewsline.com/2026/11/11/hubbard-appears-to-defeat-foxx-in-nc-05-as-provisionals-cured-ballots-counted/

I mean, what do you expect from an explicitly (m)arxist-(l)eninist instance. Their entire religion is "west bad, russia and china literally the best" and censoring any wrongthink. And yet there you are implying Russia is behind a bad thing. Of course they'd take action against you.

Imo fediverse projects really need to federate instance rules. Just include them in the instance actor (if they aren't already) like you'd do with a community, then use them if available.

Yeah. They brigade. Well known phenomemon on that instance.

The other day some bOtH sIdEs ArE tHe SaMe shill commented and I pointed out lemmy.ml. More shills apparently showed up to downvote me 🤣

@paul my theory: AI was causing issues (both posting content and ddos like traffic) just like on every other website, but no one could come up with a good reason to fix it.

@incre_ment I'll accept it

NYT (finally, and one suspects resentfully) has called it as well.