Yeah, I still can't figure out what sort of mentality makes that seem like a good idea.

For Musk there's at least a chance of some sort of thought process going on there. Narcissistic people tend to think that everyone else is just like them (although maybe a lesser version of themselves.) Musk has had a very serious addiction to Twitter for a long time, therefore everyone has a very serious addiction to Twitter, therefore we can charge people a ton of money for their Twitter and since they can't leave they'll have to pay for it. And legal repercussions? Why, he's never seen those in his life!

Maybe spez is the same, just with a bunch of alt accounts so that he can post in /r/jailbait or whatever. I can see why he might want to turn reddit into 9gag if that's all he's ever used it for himself and isn't capable of understanding the concept of other people having different uses for it.

But at some point he must notice that it's not been going well? Right?

They're extremely pro-China. They deny the Uyghur genocide, by saying it's just as real as "white genocide". It's mostly criticisms that I would say are valid except that mixing in the Chinese propaganda kinda spoils the whole thing.

My expectation is that some people will just use it as an excuse because they actually enjoy Reddit turning into 9gag with NFTs. If it really becomes an issue, Lemmy will be forked, and new devs will lead it.

(There's also still kbin.)

Yep. Reddit is going to die, the question was how quick and what do we do about it.

Like, reddit might stay around as another 9gag, but that's not really reddit then.

Aren't the flagship instances right now essentially lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works? Maybe Beehaw once the re-federation gets figured out? And then kbin.social on the kbin side.

This only matters if you use lemmy.ml, which I would expect to be largely defederated at some point soonish.

On another topic, there are rumors circulating that we are fascists or supported genocide.

This is the part that I think will make it more difficult, since I imagine there are quite a few devs that would rather contribute to projects by less politically-outspoken project owners.

(I would also note that they don't deny being tankies, and tankies tend to insist they aren't fascists. They also deny the Uyghur genocide so they have that going for them too.)

Copyleft is nothing like public domain. Licenses like the GPL would be considered copyleft, where the license itself is required to be maintained when distributing the work, allowing access to the sources that made the work.

It's also something that would have to be explicitly stated in the Terms of Service or something similar.

sophisticated and highly-targeted phishing attack

So, uh, an email?

Part of "defund the police" includes "fund mental health services" using the money that used to pay for police and police accessories.

The classic "why don't people agree with me when I try to blame Jews for global conspiracies?"

I still don't understand how, but there's loads of people who think that Musk is doing an amazing job and should be emulated in all situations. I've mostly seen it in other narcissists but this guy might also just be a simp.

Lol what. We have machines and automation now. We can just make manufacturing equipment "suffer" while the humans "get ahead".

The zero-sum worldview has been dead since the industrial revolution. Any widespread suffering at this point is the fault of humans.

Edit: unless you're trying to say something else?

A whiny trust-fund baby who destroyed their company and image through compulsive lying?

They seem equally worthless to me.

If people really care there's also kbin, which is the same content just with a different (imo better) UI.

The idea itself is reasonable enough: get some security by isolating packages from each other, and avoid python-style package conflicts by isolating dependencies as well.

Macs have been doing it for forever, and hardly anyone noticed.

Which leads to the real problem, that Canonical's implementations are consistently terrible.

Yeah, reference instance sounds more correct.

I'd also imagine at least part of it is the same as how normal people seem to think ADHD people with amphetamine prescriptions are just constantly high.

They don't realize that whatever good feelings they're getting from taking 100mg of amphetamines at once don't apply at all to people chronically on small extended doses.

fetch is the new XHR.

Is that some sort of ISP-level block?

Sounds like you need a VPN.

Just in case users really wanted to see some hate speech mixed in with their regular discussions?

I've at least heard people defending PHP recently. Supposedly it's, uh, better than before.

That said if there was a community fork of Lemmy that people started organizing around I wouldn't mind seeing if there was something I could help with.