3 of the top 4 results for me are fediverse related when searching for "lemmy".

I don't think its the signing up, its the lack of centralization/community. reddit was a singularity, the community is protesting en-masse because they felt they were all part of the same thing.

to me, the fediverse is a segmented.. oddly connected group of overlapping communities. it lacks cohesion.

is this the same bullshit they pull in the US where they suck all the funding out of a perfectly functioning system, which cripples it. then they get to point at that system as a failure the only answer to which seems to be 'privatization'?

im confused why people a. think spez had enough control to make these decisions. b. that killing the 3rd party apps wasnt the point.

almost zero notice, exorbitant costs for stripped access...

there was never going to be a compromise. 'they' want to wall their garden, and thats all she wrote

i cant agree with this. the only ones who wanted trump in office either would gain financially or were flat out brainwashed into ignoring this pedophilic rapist shitheads actual, documented behavior.

theres really no excuse but ignorance, malice or greed. pick one. this pathetic waste of human flesh was well known as slime by anyone who cared to know well before he was elected.

this is obvious cover... a bot-generated paper trail for when they 'are forced to act on behalf of the community'

i have more sympathy than anything else for them. i see them as a very sad lot, who desperately need psychiatric counseling and for many, an actual education.

dehumanizing them dehumanizes you

its about the big datasets required to train systems to interact with and generate content as human beings... as usual, its a profit motive.

i always enjoyed Columbo

not really a falsehood if youre just directly quoting someone as stating they are going to do something, and then pointing out that that thing did not happen.

i think its called "reporting"

isnt he also a religious whackjob? best cooking show since yan though

wont someone think of the chil...community!

russian national security is so fragile its sensitive to gender? oh damn

i think discord started as an irc extension, which is why it still has a ton of hooks for it

very weird watching reddit born drama come to the big screen

kodi + emby

ads? what year is it?

i remember the 'sub'reddit announcement!

it feels like with the distributed nature of this system, i have better chance to be technically involved. im on attempt 3 of my own instance of kbin... feels exciting again for first time in a decade

their point was that the british dental healthcare is as adequately provided for as in the US, where children die from lack of dental healthcare. ie, its not.

aol/prodigy were 'the net' to the general public by 94. i remember writing xmodem scripts to download boobie picks from single line bbs' ~89.

there are far too many communicative platforms and protocols for any 'social media' site to be 'irreplaceable'. i find the notion hilarious.

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