“Solving the crisis … requires the private and non-profit sectors to join forces with the public authorities at all levels of government.”
So as long as everybody coordinates toward the same common goal, we should be okay.
…Welp, we had a good run.
I want to watch a documentary about what led up to this. I have so many questions.
EDIT: Oh hey just eight posts down…
“Society if Piped would actually play videos,” for me :( I’ve had some luck with Invidious, but I haven’t been able to get videos playing on Piped for some months now.
You know, I appreciate your intellectual honesty. You could have just claimed it was the largest and gotten on with your day, but you took the high road.
Warcraft: Orcs and Humans, fam.
I WFH so there’s a 53% chance that I’m spending those 25 minutes walking my dog.
But for the remaining 47%…!
That’s pretty cool of you to show up to the conversation in good faith tbh.
LOL Right? The contempt is just barely contained by the Wikipedia voice and tone.
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I too had an Animorphs flashback.
That art style is called “Alegria” or “Corporate Memphis” and it always makes me feel kind of nauseated, even without the cannibalism.
privacy-wise, I started to feel really unsafe on reddit
Definitely. Reddit is trending toward a much more privacy-invasive posture as they lean into advertising and prepare for their IPO. I was a regular Lemmy user by the time they started blocking users behind VPNs, but that particular move was shockingly anti-consumer IMO.
I’m obsessed with things being open source and free and so lemmy just tickles me in the right way in that regard :).
Same :) I’d add “distributed” to that list, too-- It’s comforting to know that the Lemmy ecosystem isn’t one private entity that can make arbitrary decisions, or be bought out by any eccentric billionaires. Reddit has this army of mods and contributors that make it work, but as we saw in the API fiasco last year, the power dynamics there are really lopsided… Lemmy is much more empowering to the people who use it.
For specialised communities, some aren’t really active here. Ie. the community about the illness I suffer from has about 100 members here and is dead, while on reddit it has 50k members
Definitely a disadvantage, yeah. Reddit still has that scaled network effect that is hard to replicate. Lemmy is less lurker-friendly, but if you’re willing to participate, I find that people actually show up. You can often post in those “dead” communities and find that there are lots of folks to talk to, they just haven’t been posting there. It’s much more like “if you want a warm fire, you gotta chop wood,” here than on Reddit. Less convenient, but more satisfying IMO.
It was a little complicated choosing a node and signing up.
Yeah, that’s a big barrier for people :\ Tech companies spend TONS on minimizing sign-up friction, but that “What is an instance? How do I pick one?” thing is a) frictionful, and b) intrinsic to any Fediverse system. I always tell people “don’t overthink it, just pick one,” but it’s still a barrier.
Yo Throck, you down to hit the frictionless ramp this afternoon?
Welcome! What do you think so far?
I’M LATE FOR… (checks itinerary) WHATEVER THE FUCK I WANT
Umm no cause skate shoes are lava-proof for 1 second at a time???
Which costs extra, of course
Those questions/claims are really interesting as like… A way to teach children how to think about scale and approximation and stuff.
Adults holding those beliefs both a) sincerely and b) defensively though… Less cute.
But I thought you needed to reach your friend?
“Completely new”
Okay, then don’t train it on anything at all and let’s see how it turns out.