It's incredible what lengths people will go to experience a short high of moral superiority.

Let's just design every website using a table again. Or even better, frames!

I agree, it feels a bit like the internet in the early days, where you can find mindblowing new things just around the corner with a single click

What I realised to maybe as equally damaging is if all the original NSFW subs started allowing only SFW content. This would drive the fairly isolated but big userbase of those subs away.

If I remember correctly, dark roast was also originally devised to hide bad-quality coffee beans. Nowadays it is often implied that darker roasts are better, which actually isn't necessarily the case.

Sustainable as interpreted by a non-techie bean counter looking at maximising next quarter's profits and ignoring everything past that.

The DTS producers are probably already creating a full episode out of that one radio message.

clamps down on flare use

Ha! As if that is ever going to be successful.

AFAIK most typed languages have this behaviour.

Well, people who have left the site will, by definition, not be the people who are still commenting over there.

And as others say, probably a some bots are involved.

Yup, essentially the same thing happens on Reddit and things always seem to work out in the end.

ITT: nope, not touching anything touched by Zuckerberg.

Does anybody have a comparison between the mod lists before and after the blackout? It would be interesting to see whether any changes happened in that area.

This will mean that the 'most recommended' instance will get absolutely hammered with new registrations though. Some randomisation should be necessary.

I'm so happy that McLaren is keeping form. In the F1TV commentary they said that they (McLaren) were not expecting much from the Hungaroring, but Norris made it into third with Piastri keeping up in fourth!

That's definitely a risk. The main way of avoiding that is to stay active :D

Ah this brings me back to my bachelor course on Quantum Physics. Once you end up with intermediate equations spanning a full sheet of paper you start questioning your life choices.

They act like everyone already uses reddit and the users are so addicted they'll put up with anything.

To be honest, this may actually be true for a significant portion of the userbase.

Profitable is probably a big word here, but they were surviving and without any real ambitions, not a lot of money was necessary. Originally, the Reddit gold awards seemed to be enough for them to pay for server usage and the handful of developers/admins.

However, the last couple of years things felt like they were changing behind the scenes. More investors were attracted and growth became an objective. The low interest rates indeed meant a lot of money was available and that investors wanted more growth as there were plenty of alternatives that WERE growing. If your growth is/was disappointing, you'd lose the investors as they would go elsewhere. The current situation is likely just the tail end of that process.

With Lemmy gaining sudden popularity and with many new instances coming up, its priority might increase dramatically now though.