Lemmy is turning into a left-wing echo chamber. The mods have declared that right-leaning opinions are not welcome and are defederating from any right-leaning instances. If you declare that half the population is not welcome, you’re really limiting your reach. It’s also going to be a pain to have two logins, one for lemmy.world and one for the free speech instances.
Yeah, it’s nice. I’ve had it 2 years now. It’s sturdy, hasn’t broken yet. I’m not feeling the need to upgrade yet. If I was buying new, I’d get something newer. I was considering a GPD Win Mini, but $1000 is a lot and GPD has so many QA issues,
I have an RG351MP.
Every handheld made in the past few years plays GB/GBC/GBA at 100%.
No. It just leads to people gaming the system. I also think that counting upvotes but not downvotes is also a good idea, when ranking which posts show first. Too many people use downvote for “I disagree”, which means a true idea with less than 50% popularity gets buried.
This is a recourse. You start your own node and block the offending node. Aren’t there features that let you block individual users?
A site like Reddit could be run on a skeleton crew of 20-50 people. That’s what Elon Musk is trying to do somewhat with Twitter, slashing unnecessary employees. (Example: How many people are working on lemmy?)
Look at it from the viewpoint of an executive. “I managed a 5 person team.” makes you sound like a loser. “I managed a 100 person division” makes you sound like a Big Important Person, even if 95 of those jobs were unnecessary.
Also look at it from the viewpoint of investors. If an investor puts $200M into Reddit, they want Reddit to be spending $100M-$200M on growth. No investor would put $200M into reddit if reddit was going to just run a barebones operation spending $20M per year and then coasting for 10 years off the investment money.
Actually, the government did just call up Twitter and tell them to censor things. That’s the whole point of the Matt Taibbi Twitter Files stories. But you also have other non-government groups policing the Internet, calling up Twitter/Facebook/Google/etc and demanding censorship.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/kwpqmn/is-the-pr-industry-buying-influence-over-wikipedia
They’re probably smart enough to not get caught nowadays.
How do you know that there’s only one person working the account? When you’re a reddit moderator, it’s anonymous (same on Wikipedia). For all we know, all the power mods are working at a PR firm somewhere. Spreading misinformation could be their full-time job. Controlling the flow of information on Reddit and Wikipedia could be worth more than Reddit’s actual profit.
With lemmy, if someone is squatting a bunch of forums and moderating them, you can always start your own lemmy instance and start your own forum with the same title.
There’s nobody to sue. The CEO is dead. Oceangate is a bankrupt company with no assets.
Oceangate is broke with no assets. There’s nothing to sue.
No, they’re already dead. Most likely the sub cracked under the water pressure, instakilling them. Or they froze to death. Or they ran out of air; they have oxygen but no CO2 scrubber.
Those charities have huge overhead. Very little money goes to the actual cause.
Here’s one way to realize why Reddit should not be taken seriously: Suppose that the head moderator position for r/politics was put up for open auction. How much would it sell for? It would be purchased by someone who was interested in controlling what information people see.
Subreddits are moderated on a first-come first-serve basis. If you were the first one to squat a name 10 years ago, you get to be the head moderator, even if someone else might do a better job. This is the “landed gentry” comment Reddit’s CEO was referring to.
There are more potentially interesting websites than I have time to spend. I’m taking the same attitude to Reddit that I take for StackOverflow and Wikipedia. I’ll read their content, especially if it comes up in search, but I’m not wading through the cesspool to try and contribute anything.
I was surprised that r/godot didn’t turn into a discussion devoted to Samuel Beckett.
Maybe the problem is that your definition of fascism is “anyone who disagrees with me”?