of course the one person in europe who owns a pickup would park it on the sidewalk

tbf people just wanna sign up and click on funny links, not browse through 100 rando instances to find the one that lines up with their exact interests and wait for approval and worry about uptime and whether their instance will still exist in a year

On top of it all... What joke? He "misinterpreted" a serious statement...

Unfortunately not. I made a post about it a few days ago and apparently it's an unintended behavior that will be fixed, it was just never an issue before since there were so few users lol

if the site won't load for you, the link is twitch.tv/reddark_247

finish reading the comment, theyre not the same

The other problem with YouTube/twitch alts as opposed to reddit/twitter is that a lot of the creators people like the most actually rely on those platforms to serve ads in order to make a living. That content can't exist on FOSS systems unless they somehow manage to attract advertisers, which seems next to impossible

In our current unparalleled enterprise, refusal to switch platforms is simply a refusal to grow—an insistence on watching ads, if you will. Did the Digg user refuse to Reddit? It did not. It crept forth boldly while its brethren remained in the blackest ocean abyss, with lidless eyes forever staring at the dark, ignorant and doomed despite their eternal vigilance. Would we model ourselves on the Facebook user?

Also, the giant flood of posts you're seeing is actually ANOTHER bug that happens as your instance federates with another; look close and you'll see many of them are actually quite old. Refresh the page and those will disappear

We is lemmings

Addressing what Jamie said as well: they won't see the downvote on their instance, but you will see it on yours.

My understanding is that each instance has its own copy of every post, comment, and vote total. You might notice that viewing the same post from lemmy.ml vs lemmy.world, it'll have a different point total, some comments missing, and maybe different comments and posts altogether. This is because when a user interacts with Lemmy, the instance will send out a notification to other instances that the interaction happened--once. If another instance is down or busy and misses the notification, there's no system in place to correct it later. So when you have a situation like now where a massive influx of users is causing the biggest servers to go down constantly, those notifications are constantly missed. And if you send a downvote to a server that has them disabled, that particular server simply won't read the downvote.

twitter. thats as deep as it goes. like how they try to get people to put hashtags in their titles despite no one using hashtags to find videos. corporations try not to turn everything into a homogeneous blob challenge: impossible.

it's funny because they tried to do this push a few years ago too where everyone new had an @ and they eventually dropped it because it was dumb. i guess whichever exec thought that was a good idea never actually left

"Vitamin" is basically the 19th century's idea of a sciencey word for "nutrients." I mean heck, half the "vitamin Bs" aren't even related to each other at all

Because then I have to moderate it :/

but... why...

it won't die, but it will probably change dramatically if mods are willing to stick to their guns and find somewhere else to moderate. which is a big if, but still. if r/videos can do it...

"we have broken through the walls and our forces now wash over the land like a giant wave"

i mean it's spiced differently and usually has beans but the main ingredient is still tomatoes. not that different from having a meat sauce

you've got to consider that to a lot of these people racism "isn't real" because their bar for what qualifies as racist is set incredibly high. "how could that be racist if it's true?"

you can see a similar anti-trans sentiment in the people who defend jk rowling. "she's just saying gender can't mismatch assigned sex, how could the truth be transphobic?" nothing could ever be transphobic or racist or whatever to these people when they think very concept of being bigoted isn't legitimate

I got mixed up with Robert Pattinson and was like "wow everyone here sure hates twilight huh"