This is the stuff worth ignoring. He can call it Lake Freedom Fries, Lake America, Lake Trump, or whatever. That doesn’t mean Canada or New York will change the signage of the area. It’ll be another dumb Google Maps change that will vanish after this guy finally leaves office.

Speaking for Lemmy, I feel like political and meme communities are alive and well, but smaller specialized niche communities still haven’t been able to get a foothold.

The collective user base is pretty small, so only the broader interest communities get engagement and or survive c/all.

Aside from Bluesky, is there anything that actually has a big community of active users? What’s worth checking out? Every project I pop into still feels early and has pretty low engagement.

Ahh. Make sense.

Depends on the topic.

Since traffic is low, most eyeballs come from feeds like /all, and that can be good for some niche communities and bad for others.

For example, I’ve seen certain software / hardware user group communities really struggle. Weird example - if people try to start user groups or developer communities for Microsoft or Apple products, their questions and or news posts can get downvoted and shredded with unconstructive comments. Basically, all of those communities get their new posts screened by a bunch of OSS evangelist, because that’s most of us here. Those posts get murdered in the crib.

But what about the people turning their gold into piss?

What are the more humane ways to deal with these animals? They’re not native, they’ve been causing ecological problems, and they’ve been endangering other plants and animals.

Go be fair, these feral horses are not native and are messing up ecosystems, which is leading to the deaths of other species.

When idiots realize American Idiot is actually about them.

Reddit gave more than 1/3rd of its revenue to 2 people, plus options. Holy fuck.

Apple doesn’t even pay it executives close to what Reddit is dishing out, even if you consider the stock they get.

Do NOT invest in this company. Now that we can see the books, it’s clear how poorly things are actually run.

When I look at those numbers I think “Apollo was made by 1 dude with some occasional help from another person. Reddit is throwing half its budget and 200+ bodies at its app and site, and it’s a fucking disaster.”

Since it’s only been a week, a lot of those people are going to come back. But now they’re coming back with updated resumes and a linked in pro subscription. The good folks will be bailing in the coming months, but they’ll stay and work in a half ass way since it’s better than unemployment and cobra. Musk basically ensured uncontrolled attrition.

How did this idiot actually manage to ship cars to begin with?

The vaccine works by instructing the body to make up to 34 “neoantigens.” These are proteins found only on the cancer cells, and Moderna personalizes the vaccine for each recipient so that it carries instructions for the neoantigens on their cancer cells.

That’s pretty dope

When you’re dating JD Vance and he wants you to role play as the sofa cushions.

If conservatives want to listen to music that echos what they hear in Murdoch media outlets, they might want to avoid punk. Also, hip hop and rap. Probably also want to avoid, metal, classic rock, folk, indie, jazz, and EDM. Best to just avoid cool, formerly cool, and or cool adjacent music.

You should be generally safe with pop country, Christian rock, and post-00’s butt rock.

“We’re seeing a greater need for authentic human connections”

I’m going to take a wild guess and wager that this is about increasing engagement by increasing the amount of opening moves that are created on the platform.

Dating sites profit by increasing engagement with the platform, not by getting you an “authentic connection” that gets you off the platform and into a healthy relationship.

There’s a reason people are going analog again. They know these sites are just a thirst trap.

For the curious.

The boots have two layers. This boot is the inner layer.

The big user experience problem is everyone is getting funneled into Lemmy.world and Lemmy.ml, and they can’t scare fast enough.

But Lemmy is federated. So signup for a smaller instance. You’ll still be able to subscribe and post to communities on other instances.

This “not a democracy, a republic” crap is becoming more and more popular on the right. They’re not even trying to hide the authoritarianism and fascism any more. They’re now openly saying they don’t support democracy.

Giving your iCloud credentials to a third party is already sketchy. It gives them the ability to read your messages, documents, health records, etc.

Nothing / Sunbird basically said “trust me bro, we’re super secure.” Then they did this right out of the gate.

What a bunch of morons.