@TheBreadmonkey @internetsdairy

I frogot about Mr Topper..There used to be quite a few in central London. Staffed, one assumed, by a production line of Australian sheep shearers. Half the price of any other barbers.

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.

Reddit started becoming shitty because people are shitty.

It started long before the API restrictions, long before the commercialisation.

No, it started failing when the influx of new users grew exponentially, but the systems to support it didn't.

Subreddits were no longer communities, they became information and discussion hubs.

With the influx of people, further moderation was needed. But mod vetting isn't that easy, and a lot of people who had absolutely no business moderating communities, let alone social hubs, got a whiff of power that drove them crazy.

And that leads to splinter communities, some abandoned, some forced to give up, and an overall mess to this all.

@gjm Oh yes, absolutely.

Sort of ...

@bodil @passenger @cstross but the leather jacket Doctor was the socialist!

Ferengi Rule of Acquisition 98

"Every man has his price."

Source: In the Pale Moonlight (DS9 episode)

Gweinidog Diwylliant Yr Alban yn galw ar aelodau o'r Senedd genedlaethol yna i gefnogi datganoli grymoedd dros ddarlledu.

https://www.thenational.scot/news/26713737.mairi-mcallan-asks-msps-back-devolving-broadcasting/

TIL there are Lego cafes all over the UK. Incredible.

@publicvoit "Rejecting your PR because while your 2-line typo fix is clean, your diet wasn't vegan during the commit, making this patch complicit in global injustice and therefore will be auto-closed to maintain project karma."

This time Captain Archer finds out the true meaning of Christmas nevertheless this is really an episode about the B plot

@llamasoft_ox Then I'll eat something because I am hungry, you mean a burg or a v-burg ? 😎

Adobe’s AI experiments let you walk around in photos and interview your characters https://www.theverge.com/tech/1031505/adobe-max-2026-sneaks-experiments-ai

Spirit of giving can be consumerist bullshit, but that’s only if you don’t take it on regular walks and get it plenty of sunlight.

@cstross @davidgerard

We built a false machine consciousness that fooled our leaders, and unless someone intervenes with force majeure, it's going to explode at Christmas, taking our society with it.

We appear to be in a Doctor Who episode.

Gair y dydd: tangnefedd https://geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html?tangnefedd 'Heddwch (meddwl), hedd, llonyddwch', ac mae'n gyfarchiad cyffredin yn y Beibl sy'n golygu 'Heddwch (i chwi, &c.). Ystyr arall i'r gair yw 'cymod, cytundeb heddwch, cadoediad' sy'n addas i'r dydd hwn.

Word of the day: tangnefedd https://geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html?tangnefedd 'peace (of mind), quiet, tranquillity'. It's a common greeting in the Bible - 'Peace be with you', and it also means 'reconciliation, peace treaty, armistice', which we honour on this day.

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).

Reddit got bad long before they restricted API access. That's what was the final drop for many people, but it wasn't the beginning at all.

I agree that growing would be a benefit for Lemmy though. While I wouldn't dismiss the dangers of a growing community entirely, we can just defederate from or block problematic parts in theory. So I wouldn't say we're in quite the same danger as centralized platforms.

Saw a post saying some shitty Christian lemmy instance was spamming bullshit on one of their latest posts, I said something along the lines of “probably Russians”. Come to find out my comment was removed and I was banned… then to find out they effectively have a CCP agent running town… lol.

I’ve seen people mention they were a garbage instance, now I know why! They said I broke rule 1 … this might just be the app I’m using but they don’t even have any fucking rules to look at lmao.

Glad they did the work for me and made it easy to avoid them.

>Featherless
>Biped
Behold, a man.