Not upvoting the sentiments in the letter. Alphabet overhired fot years to shade out startups from finding techs, now that everything is being stripped for value the vulture capitalists gave arrived.

If they hadn't been such assholes about data slurping there might be positive public sentiment, but no, bridge with techies burnt.

Capitalist plan for destroyed planet is? Bribe the sun? Oooh, a bunker /tomb in Hawaii! Flex flex Obvious none of these people have faced physical reality outside an office, they want to live forever without a supporting planet around them.

Just wear our 3000 dollar goggles and things will look fine.

More about Sequoia, funny how most of the articles are paywalled... https://www.cryptopolitan.com/...

Well, as the Washington Post points out, "Democracy dies behind a paywall"...or something like that.

Funny how any usable info is hul8dden and/or locked away. Makes one wonder about all the " free" stuff. Whole broadcast networks giving away free info out there.

Quote from article...

Challenges and Departures Amidst Reputational Damage

Sequoia Capital, known for its remarkable returns since its inception in 1972, has recently faced challenges and reputational damage due to its involvement with FTX, a cryptocurrency exchange that collapsed, resulting in a loss of $214 million from Sequoia’s global growth fund. This setback has led to the departure of key partners, including Mike Vernal, Michelle Fradin, Kais Khimji, and Daniel Chen.

If you look at today's chart its obvs we're close. All hands on deck. Now we know who they are.

I love the stench of desperation in the morning.

Also, since we're here, note the proliferation of downvotes here, on a comparatively quiet forum. No chance left untaken.

I was going to post the articles as they arose, but didn't have an account here yet.

I'll go see if I can find the articles. The Sequoia articles were on the global Mastodon feed.

I'm thinking that we might be able to use the interlinked nature of fedi apps to spread awareness and to esp alert Swissers that their representation is not on their side. Esp in a country with mandatory military service.

The bad side is that search on Mastodon is terrible. But the newest features show up on mastodon.social because that's the dev's own site, and a Search bar appeared recently.

I'd like to hand him something, but I don't want to pick it up.

Keep in mind that the mods are doing what rich assholes tell them to do. Like politicians are used to stir outrage.

That's why we're succeeding; we're not buying the drama, we're buying shares.

I'm betting that many recent moves on Reddit were implemented to distract from useful narratives and churn ethical mods out. Thus we have Platinum Sparkles.

Been a fedie for a while. Lemmy wasn't my cuppa, now it's time and variety of participants is arriving.

From superstonk...

"[–]IThatAsianGuyI🦍Voted✅ [score hidden] an hour ago They had a $319mil swing in terms of profitability while taking in almost $500mil less in the quarter.

That's actually wild."

Nice work!

I tbink we need to list the media outlets and their owners in a post somewhere.

There is also a ppshow venue on Lemmy... !theppshow@lemmy.world

An account here should also work there.

I think we're beyond needing to track. Meanwhile reddit is so desperate that it brought back r/place and is trying to get people to do competitive paint-by-numbers, like shuffleboard games on the deck of a sinking ship.

Schwab article... []https://www.sfgate.com/...

The financial services company is hoping to reduce its real estate footprint by “closing floors or closing offices” at its downtown office space, spokesperson Pete Greenley told SFGATE. Similar downsizing efforts are planned for Charles Schwab offices in Boston; Chicago; Henderson, Nevada; and Jersey City, New Jersey, while offices in Atlanta, San Antonio, San Diego, St. Louis and Tampa, Florida, are slated to close completely.

Agree with the posts and comments. We're up against the people who own those platforms, or their friends, so we need to be as independent as possible.

Lemmy has baggage from its founders, but that seems to be less of an issue as the general fediverse grows and no longer federates as much with them. Discussion only yesterday in a lemmy.world post about this very issue.

One thing about the whole story is that many facades are falling away. The stock markets, the banks, political manipulation, and the tech bro self-justifications.

The downside is that moving also leaves behind members who are less technical. I see this with people trapped in Gmail and hate it and "can't" move.

So what could be useful here is a web app which would connect people who can only grok how to use an app. Those are mostly just specialized browsers, Mastodon has several already. It would add access to this place to their app drawer.

Have the app load and interact with this instance by default, it's already got momentum. Then all the app users get added instantly once they download it and open it. If they want to post, the app helps them sign up. If they search for certain words in an app store, like drs, the app shows up.

We could probably just use one that's already made. That way no maintenance, we can donate to the devs directly.

As long as there's no motive to enshittify this instance, it won't become Reddit.

I do think that changing downvoting would also help. Maybe have to downvote arrow go to Report so that shills can't use it to hide info. They'll have to write out why the post should be downvoted.

Also, we can all help by posting stuff we find. I'm not in the financial business, so I post stuff that seems relevant over in whynotdrs. One thing that seems to be true is that when I post something shills don't like, it gets downvoted. It's a sure way to find their sore spots.

So if you see an article about failing banks or The Fed or CMBS failures, take a moment to share it with us.

The bbby sub might be a way to spread the word, it was like supa used to be, now being invaded since it's now Butterfly and is changing transfer agents even though it's dead.

I looked up zombie buildings in Denver, and Qwant handed me this page from our dear friends at BCG... https://www.bcg.com/...

So everyone knows, no surprises, just cockblocking losses as much as possible.

Another possible crack...saying it out loud... https://www.newswars.com/...

I found an app called Eternity on FDroid store and it loads theppshow@lemmy.world and looks pretty good so far.

I don't know background. Just a lurker. I saw it go to banned and posted over here.

We needed more migration and it looks like plutonium spackler helped make it happen.

We are fortunate to have a decent registrar.

One thing that held me back from dabbling in bbbyq was having to deal with AST or pretending it would be okay to hold in a brokerage account while the street is on fire.

Amended, thank you.