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I've been on Reddit alternatives for the last 5 years. Lemmy is long past the phase the others all failed at, and next time Reddit screws up it'll grow even more.

The largest existential threat for Lemmy at the moment is perpetual funding. The two full-time devs are almost in the poverty line.

If you can donate even a few dollars/month, it's a huge help: https://join-lemmy.org/support

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Apple donation

The first time I looked into this, I thought it was fake, but turns out I was checking the wrong year.

  • 2023: $250–$499
  • 2022: $1,000–$4,999
  • 2021: $1,000–$4,999
  • 2020: $250–$499
  • 2019: $1,000–$4,999
  • 2018: $1,000–$4,999

I appreciate them donating at all, but that's about the price of one Macbook per year - my girlfriend's most recent Macbook was $5,500

Edit: It looks like these donations may come from Apple matching donations (pdf warning)

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The erasure of Luigi Mangione

I cross posted this to Hacker News (which is very pro-CEO and big corpo) and it's now rank 1 on the front page, lmao. People really support this guy

(And it's funny because in the comments, people are seething "Nooooo he's not popular, look at these polls that show he has 13% approval!!")

(Not sharing link to avoid brigade)

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Good neighborship

Well yea, countries keep buying nuclear from France because it's clean, cheap, and they don't want to suffer the political backlash from the science lacking environmentalists which come forward when they talk about building nuclear on their own land

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Stop Killing Games reaches its goal of 1.4M signatures, covering the risk of valid signatures going under 1M

I've recently gotten back into (indie) game dev and made my multiplayer game with Stop Killing Games in mind. When you connect to the game, if the server is down, you get a one-click solution to run the server locally and play single player instead.

This setup actually helped speed up development too, since now I don't need to run both the server and client when making (most) changes :)