There was one Voat. When the one Voat goes bust, Voat goes bust. Like any enterprise, it's failure can be attributed, at least in part, to poor management.

There are many Lemmy's. If one Lemmy collapses, another Lemmy can take its place. The individual instances might be less stable than a centralized social media site, like Voat was, but when federated the whole unit is more resilient than centralized social media.

Yeah, and it sucks. Eff the neoliberals. All my homies hate neoliberals.

I've seen some of the videos online. Some degree mills will let you CLEP (and adjacent services) your way to a degree in General Studies (or Liberal Studies, or Multidisciplinary Studies, or whatever). A lot of the time, it's a degree in nothing in particular from a school nobody's heard of. It's not particularly useful, but better than nothing.

You get what you pay for. I'm not sure who is cheating who: the students, who think they've found a way to beat the system, or the schools, who make a quick buck in exchange for a degree of dubious value.

Sell

Funny yet sad that it's come to reddit botting their own platform to try and shore up support for themselves.

Believe it or not, the money isn't the hard part. The endless environmental studies, NIMBYism, and debate make it nearly impossible to build projects of any size in the US anymore.

I mean, I don't think the shooter was talking about the mentalist.

Does the +Police vote even care that much about marijuana anymore? I feel that marijuana won the cultural war forever ago, it's just that it takes a long time for political change to follow.

The tech bubble is over (kinda, they're trying to spin it back up with AI) and so is the free money party. Rates are rising, and investors aren't content to throw money at companies that still don't know how they're going to make any money. To make money, they've got to squeeze it out of somebody: either users or advertisers.

In Twitter's case, they squeezed it out of a vain billionaire who they convinced to buy the company. The shareholders got their money, and now making a profit is somebody else's problem. Reddit could've similarly tried to court a buyer, but there's no guarantee they would have found one (maybe Meta?). Instead they're trying to a gin up some revenue either out of third party apps or by pushing third party app users onto the main app so they can advertise to them. I haven't been following Discord and Meta's stuff, but the reasoning is probably similar.

Imagine an old-timey saw with a lumberjack on each side, pulling it back and forth across the tree. The saw just goes back and forth, but effective work gets done.

I think the only way around stuff like this is to have some alts hanging around. This account is an alt to the same-name lemmy.ml account, but now only the lemmy.ml account can see beehaw stuff. It's a shame, because beehaw did seem to have something good going with their more curated communities. They could have put out a call for moderators if that's what they need, but instead they decided to close the gates.

I wouldn't be afraid to make a bunch of alts. Simply having an alt account doesn't put strain on the servers. It's the using it that does. Until then, it can lie in wait, inactive, without much impact.

So THAT'S where they were going

More like chiroquacktors! Haha, you get it? Because....

"US Male" by Elvis Presley. At least some of his other bad songs are funny. This one just sucks.

Ah, I used to use Lemmur when I first joined Lemmy. Nice to see it revived.

Polynomials

Normie. Should have done a trig sub problem.

In an ideal state, the corporations would be subservient to the state, which would represent the will of the people and the good of the nation. In practical terms, this would be worker protections and environmental protection among other things.

As is, our (US) government is weak and subservient to the corporations and the rich, who use it as a tool to maintain their position. While free enterprise is essential to a free society and a planned economy is doomed to inefficiency, business owners must be good stewards of the nation's resources and the state should be unafraid to remove them as necessary. (Health care being a good example of an industry where this should be done).

On top of that, there should be a floor on how poor you can be and a ceiling on how rich. Oh shit, does this make ME the TANKIE?

No, because I don't laud the Assad regime. Whew, that was close.

I mean, me too thanks.

It ripped off this famous poem in the process:

Most States

It's the end of an era. Rip, jannies.

Relevant

The thing is, the concern people have with lemmy.world is the same concern we used to have with lemmy.ml. The question of how big an instance ought to be is still unanswered. Maybe lemmy.world is below that level and people will naturally shy away from it once it gets there. On top of that, limited resources on the side of instance owners will drive decentralization. For example, Lemmy.ml shut its doors to new users once it became overloaded. Similar things could happen in the future.

Even if a major instance did go down, we'd just lose the content. The people, for the most part, would migrate to whatever new instances sprung up to replace it.