Similar kind of stuff happens all the time, where public institutions bear the cost and consequences of private enterprises. Good example of a not too dissimilar situation was Memorial Hospital during Katrina, where instead of sending private helicopters and rescue, the firm that owned the hospital opted to wait for "free" US government rescue.

Privatize the profits, but socialize the losses.

Sadly, this is the only logical conclusion of things that are run for profit. Here's hoping the federated model proves more resistant in the long run.

Pioneering work is hard but very rewarding. Definitely a fun time which we all should use to really shape things how we would like them to be

Dark grays, blues? Squared? Good. I love simplicity! Not to mention, Reddit started out like that too, and among the older wave of users old.reddit was still a favorite for that reason.

No time like the present! This place is 10 days old, so get making the places you wish to see :) I intend to get NoSleep an early start, but am far from experienced enough. That's fine though, it's all new for everyone here

A bit dated as Moskus also said. Skip on OpenOffice in favor of LibreOffice for example.

Offbrand bricks are just fine. The reason I picked the Lego name is because everyone knows it. So no worries! If you want to make a specific community for offbrand bricks, I'd be glad to pin it!

Quite excited honestly. Things feel like anything is possible here, a sense of optimism and possibility. One that reddit had many many years ago. I have good hopes for the fediverse way of doing things

Firefox!

Thanks for the solid maintenance Ruud!

Since leaving Reddit definitely more participation. Even started some communities; a thing I never really cared for doing, but seems more appropriate and rewarding here!

Sounds like a great idea!

Great to see niches like these pop up, thanks for making!

I have many questions, and none I need answers to.

These lifters are always tricky to get right, but so satisfying in action once they are balanced out, very nice

Always great to see Lego robotics projects. Really sparked the imagination as a kid, and it's never been uninteresting to see what people come up with

Stickied! Let the niche communities flourish

Same like many others here. With Spez's frankly infuriating behavior I was determined not to go back, and have only spent time here on Lemmy. No regrets, as I'll take a small growing passionate community over a gigantic dying jaded one. You're all pretty nice company!

Oh yes, I love the winter atmosphere in all kinds of media. The fact that we have such a well crafted and experssive game about surviving just that is really nice.

I'm not against the concept of society at all, but the way TLD portrays the absense of it is superb.

Yeah, it has me (and many in the community (Discord)) torn about this course of action. It's not turning out to be a great week with all the corporate greed