Gold? The worthless metal used to hold latinum?
Gold? The worthless metal used to hold latinum?
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I'm still missing a lot of the niche communities that haven't cropped up here yet, but this instance and the USS Hood discord have been a diverting replacement.
BS comparison. Ferengi have at least some kind of moral compass.
By the 57th Rule of Acquisition, "Good customers are as rare as latinum. Treasure them," Reddit is being a bad Ferengi.
Liquidator Spez. RCA (Reddit Commerce Authority)
More like Rom.
Rom was sweet, well-intentioned, and had a strong sense of duty. Not to mention he was a talented engineer who figured out how to make self-replicating mines.
The 34th Rule of Acquisition. War is good for business
Quite an impressive likeness of Spez there
I nuked a 15yr and 14yr old account on reddit. Just one more to go and today is the day.
An apt comparison
@spiderkle So, do you want to be paid in pressed latinum or oppressed latinum?
Check back up on it though. Saw a video where someone nuked account/comments and reddit un-deleted everything. Even if misleading, wouldn't hurt to confirm account is dead in a bit.
All useless gold!
Like those bars have no lattinum their subreddits will have no posters
"AITA for making up legal precedent which got some lawyer in trouble?"
It won't be clicking ads for them though!
There is so many situations where big business just wins, I’m so glad to witness a possible situation where the community wins (even if it’s short lived)
The community doesn't win. Most reddit normies will continue to use reddit. Third party app users are a drop in the bucket.
So far, there are some user-scripts or extensions to customize Lemmy like old.reddit.com or according to your needs. At the moment, I am using Lemmy_monkey. There is a community called "Lemmy Plugins & Userscripts" covering everything you need
Rule of acquisition #142:
If there's no product, there's no profit.
It’s all just (Reddit) gold! Worthless gold!
Turns out one of the users they alienated was Morn. He was their best customer. And his stomach was full of latinum.
It may not be a total loss, some primitive cultures consider it valuable.
Even if currency were their currency...
[Fidelity Blue Chip Growth Fund] has further slashed the estimated worth of its holding in the social platform Reddit... [it] valued its holdings in Reddit at $15.4 million as of May 31... That’s down 7.36% from the $16.6 million mark at April’s closure and altogether a slide of 45.4% since its investment in August 2021. The updated share value suggests a $5.5 billion valuation for Reddit.
It's close to 50% down in 1 year. That's a huge valuation cut. Wait til they realise they lost many of the power users who were actually giving the website content. It's all downhill from here.
The difference is: Ferengi would respect this. There's probably some Rule of Acquisition that states "The consumer is the most valuable source of latinum" or something.
Well, it's been a good run at least.
no kidding. been using this for a few weeks, and seen a noticeable increase in aggressive users the past few days who just scream, harass, and name-call at people they disagree with.
can't wait for the reddit idiots to flood lemmy instances with their hate and stupidity.
This is my second week using kbin, and the magazine RedditMigration, while initially seemed to be a more welcoming place, has started to turn more vindictive towards Reddit. It's a large community with over 10k users...already.
I get it, people are upset, however it's time that people understand that Reddit isn't going to change, and that former users are just going to have to kind of get over it. Cut the losses and build a community over Fediverse. To me it seems fairly simple, but I know a lot of Reddit Refugees have put a lot more time and effort into the site over the years than me.
The Federation (the socialist utopia you reference) doesn't use Latium, thats usually used by societies (mostly The Ferengi, a commentary on late-stage capitalism) that still barter using currency.
The only retcon is that they decided to make gold "worthless" in comparison.
They're not even consistent on that point either. Quark in this episode declares it worthless. In an episode of Voyager a couple of Ferengi are mentioned to have have tried to steal gold reserves from Ft Knox. And in Enterprise sine 22nd century Ferengi (pre-official first contact which was during TNG) raid the ship and are interested in the gold they think is hidden aboard.
They say they don't, but we know they trade with the ferengi, and that federation staff on non-federation worlds received latinum to buy stuff. Quarks isn't handing out drinks for free, for example.
Federation credit is also a thing.
I would have to assume that credits are a largely bureaucratic unit of account that most Federation citizens will never work with or even hear about, but are used by internal departments of the Federation as a means of budgeting the capacity of things like transport ships, industrial replication facilities and shipyards.
This also allows them to function as a de facto currency for trade with outside powers who have achieved warp travel but aren't yet in a post-scarcity state, or as a way of managing resource usage at the edges of Federation space where infrastructure is still developing and resources need to be priorities for that development.
Basically, the Federation doesn't have "money" as an everyday societal phenomenon, but it does retain the economic capacity to issue something usable as currency when the situation calls for it such as during periods of scarcity (whether localised or across the Federation) or when conducting trade with non-Federation entities such as the Ferengi.
Of course they trade (generally with goods and services instead of currency), and when they're involved in planets who aren't part of the federation (like a Bajoran space station) they will allow their citizens to participate in that economy.
You act as though socialism is a autocratic ideocracy instead of a system that seeks to empower its citizens through collective empowerment.
Yup, they did a great job at driving away people who cared. Now they’re left with shitposters and spammers. The downside is they’ll still make a killing selling the free content everyone gave them to train AI models. But they’ll get no more from me.
I don’t want to wish misfortune on Spez, but i certainly don’t want to wish fortune on him either. What a colossal idiot.
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