Public companies are legally required to always do their best to grow year over year. Eventually these companies get so large they can't realistically get more market share so they have to figure out how to make more money from their users. This leads to them squeezing users for cash in the hunt for short term gains because they've already realistically capped out on how much money they can make per year. It's a dumb system that can't work in the long term.

Okay I'm convinced, we live in a simulation. No way this isn't alien reality tv.

Cool, I guess it's time to uninstall boost then. Guess I'm on Lemmy for the foreseeable future!

When I first read about the defederation I had a knee jerk angry response but after thinking about it I really feel like it makes sense for them. They want to have a heavily moderated space and it's hard to do that when you integrate with the other communities. It seems to me they have a level head and are approaching this carefully. I hope that they end out being in the minority but I can understand having a few relatively solitary groups with a focused goal.

I know, it's disgusting. I had an argument with a friend saying that all companies are greedy so why would you expect reddit to be different... I mean yeah if you just let them walk all over you that's what's gonna happen.

I would aim to find a healthy way to use Lemmy instead. Given you said you usually only follow it I might make an argument that there is just a massive it event currently Happening on Lemmy. As such your following it. I don't know that going back to Reddit will make much of a difference to you if you already have those habits. Try to limit your social media use and find a healthy way to interact with social media.

What advantage would switching to crypto have? I'm not well versed in how Lemmy works yet but I don't see why Lemmy would need blockchain.

Here come the scab mods!

Finally! I hate how the US just bends over for Israel. Any religion involved in any government will turn fascist because they can't stop hating all the other religions. Turns out people that believe in fairy tales aren't that bright!

I know! Why would they do that to themselves!

I'm admittedly not from this community but I'd make the argument that you may as well switch to this now because your community will suffer either now or in the future when reddit needs to show more revenue growth. Say what you will about how much the api change actually matter but they at the least show their mentally about their users and platform.

Conservatives make up shit to piss off their uneducated voter base and distract them from their corporate bullshittery.

What's the difference between kbin and Lemmy? I thought they were just different instances of the same open source project with different host names.

Mine was 8 years old and I haven't touched it since the protests started

Heck yeah! I'm planning on getting a framework laptop when I next need an upgrade and if I get any input on the decision I'll be pushing for the corporate company I work at to adopt them. I'm admittedly not sure I'm ready to jump on the fairphone train yet but I'm open to the idea.

Thank God the conservative supreme court rolled back what little we had to murder extra women in the name of a ball of cells!

Wtf, how is this legal. Bunch of idiots just casually fucking with the atmosphere. It's annoying that governments don't do anything but vigilante terraforming isn't the answer.

I love the idea of Lemmy and I'm really hoping it can take off. I'd be more than happy to donate to an instance to help keep it ad-free and free from corporate influence. Good luck!

Is my Lemmy bugging? I'm seeing this comment on a cyberpunk post.

Honestly, this clears so much up for me :). It's the only reasonable assumption, it's gotta be a masochism thing haha.