Of course. That explains why when day transitions to night you see the Sun zoom off into the distance until it diminishes to nothing, with the Moon zooming in from the opposite direction until it’s big enough to see.

You don’t get to be that rich by paying bills.

As a long-time cryptocurrency observer, it is going to be very amusing (in a bitter sort of way) seeing everyone discovering that they’re trying to solve the same problems that cryptocurrencies have been working on solving for over a decade now. And then finding all sorts of ways to contort themselves into solving them differently from how cryptocurrencies did it so that nobody can accuse them of being “crypto bros” or whatever, even though the technology is perfectly applicable as-is.

Indeed. I was expecting a two-week “calm before the storm” at this point, as the protest blackout ended but the API was not yet removed. But the protest continued and Reddit keeps stirring the pot. Interesting times.

I know that in the end Reddit will be able to brute-force themselves a “win”, but if the Fediverse gets a nice solid critical mass of users as a result then I think Reddit’s destined for a long decline.

It’s not surprising, but IMO the shutdown is still worthwhile. It’s shaking people loose to start looking for alternatives, and giving those alternatives opportunity to shake themselves down too. We’re not quite ready for a Digg-style implosion yet. It may come more gradually this time.

What might be neat is a user preference that allows one to enable or disable downvoting just for you. If you disable downvoting then you get a different view of the community and comments that only accounts for upvotes.

I am really not into porn that much :)

Heh. I feel we may have a common attitude here; I’m not particularly into smut but I think it’s very important for a free Internet to allow it to flourish for those that want it. The common “No NSFW” restriction on major Lemmy instances is likely to be one of the major hurdles to attracting Reddit refugees, alongside the particular political positions that devs and major instance-runners currently espouse.

I suspect both of those things will be diluted away quickly as this space evolves, though.

ChatGPT is really good at writing boring boilerplate. Just make sure to read the output thoroughly before you make it actual policy.

Moderation will be important for porn communities, so perhaps just start out with some kind of “meta” community where you can discuss stuff about the instance itself. May be better than throwing down a bunch of communities and ending up “stuck” having to deal with them.

Even better is to post the text of paywalled articles so people without access can still read them.

Like features just flew out the door for us at Reddit. :)

Indeed. Most of the subreddits I liked the most were ones with relatively small subscriber counts.

Interesting. I’m actually not reacting as negatively as most of the other folks here seem to be, I feel like it’s a “the more the merrier” situation. Much like how I’m not mad that Gmail is using the email protocol, for example, it’s good that it can interact with all other email programs and servers out there.

Even if Twitter and Reddit don’t completely crash like Digg did, making them “just one among several” will be a good thing in the long run. They’ll actually have competition for a change.

Crypto is decentralized, though. It’s an honest way of describing it. I think that more to blame are the specific crypto users who gave it a “bad name” with their shenanigans and equally the people who took that as an excuse to dump on crypto in general.

I’m in Canada and a few weeks back I was leafleting neighborhoods in smoke like this, literally spent all day walking outside in it. I wore a big cartridge-filter mask and that made it fine, but I was baffled by how many people were baffled by the mask. They thought I was making some kind of statement about Covid. I had to gesture vaguely at the sullen orange sky and remind them that there was smoke in the air. I’m sure PPE like that mask would have been mandatory if I’d been working inside a building with air like that.

Didn’t they say that they were planning to no longer release new “versions” per se, but just keep on updating the existing operating system indefinitely? Perhaps they had the bad luck to start that strategy with one of the bad releases.

If the technology was to become widespread it would have to do better than “silly digital ski goggles” anyway. I wear glasses, I wouldn’t mind slightly bulkier glasses if in exchange I can get a heads-up display telling me what the name of that person who’s greeting me that I should totally know the name of but have forgotten right now.

Indeed. As much as the changes that have been made and will be made to Reddit over the years are appalling, it’s not the fault of the workers in the trenches. They get their directions from on high.

And even if it were true, there are other instances. The only reason I’m on lemmy.ml myself is because the one that was recommended to me first was offline when I tried it, I could move somewhere else if this turns out to be true.