What's that? It's on somebody's property. Someone is paying for power, connectivity, and air conditioning.

I know how everyone just wants to pipe up and say, "well it didn't crush me hur hur", but I actually watched the video. It's a good record of what went down. I wish it would've mentioned Reddit alternatives, but it's still solid work.

And to anyone who still maintains that the protest has fatally wounded Reddit, look, I'm on your side but Reddit is still the 800 lb gorilla of link aggregation, and most folks still don't get why they should care about API pricing.

Since Poland was restored at the Treaty of Versailles, it has invaded exactly 0 countries. Russia has invaded a few dozen. Including Poland. Twice.

I mean, yeah?

That's so 7 years ago.

Begin rich makes one feel infallible. Thinking one's self to be infallible leads to these kinds of decisions.

I'm conflicted. These direct sales prohibitions are naked efforts to protect a market segment nobody likes. But, on the other hand, Elon.

People will do batshit crazy shit if they think God wants them to.

You know that account you set up 6 years ago and used only as a verification email for a site you almost never go to? Won't you be surprised next time you need to reset your password.

See? This is Lemmy at its finest, where a lack of (displayed) karma encourages people to just be their honest selves!

FWIW, this is kinda happening right now, albeit in a sort of "innocent" garage project sort of way. There are mods for Skyrim that take the voice work created by skilled actors, and use it to generate convincing additional dialog that they never consented to nor got paid for. Laura Baily is already seeing herself being AI'd by her own fans.

And this is with homemade software. Wait until the good stuff comes out.

I dunno. This is the energy that made me finally decide Reddit wasn't for me and work up the drive to give Lemmy a shot. My first 5 minutes here have been great!

Maybe if I'd already seen this post 50 times, I'd get where you are coming from, but for those of us that just got here, this is the energy that made it happen. Be patient while we acclimate.

FWIW, the people staying on Reddit kinda do, or did, impact us. Their apathy means that the community we've been a part of for years is not going to get better. They're why we had to go.

Insightful question. After all, 34.7% of all statistics are made up on the spot.

For anyone who doesn't get the significance, these crazy cats took out a modern main battle tank with an armored personnel carrier. That's like if the Bismark was sunk by the Titanic.

Russia is the largest country on the planet, with boundless natural resources. All they need to do is learn how to keep their armies within those massive borders, and they would be everyone's favorite trading partner. Instead, they do ... this. They don't need to die. They just need to go home.

If the only people who leave Reddit are the ones who understand what a federated FOSS link aggregator is, I think I'd be cool with that. Lemmy's share of the 3% who have moved on is already pretty impressive, at least in terms of where it was a couple months ago. And the quality of the discourse has been significantly better.

I dunno if Reddit won, but I certainly did.

Let's be honest: GOP primary voters do not care about the outcome of this trial.

Its especially innocuous if you choose the pronoun on the character screen that you're are used to using. Or just leave it at default, which is cis gendered. You have to really go out of your way to make this weird.

UI elements are usually designed to work on the lowest common denominator. Small screens, struggling cpus, etc. Modders don't care about any of that.

I have an article Aaron wrote about the Freemont GM plant business case that I read every few months to remind me of the point he was making. And every time I read it, I am reminded of the ridiculous sequence of events that took him away. Sometimes, it really does seem like only the good die young.