I'm just excited to be back in the Wild West again -- all of the big players had bumps, at least this one is working to fix them.

frantically gestures at everything

The nice things about the Federated universe is that, yes, you can bulk create user accounts on your own instance - and that server can then be defederated by other servers when it becomes obvious that it's going to create problems.

It's not a perfect fix and as this post demonstrated, is only really effective after a problem has been identified. At least in terms of vote manipulation from across servers, it could act if it, say, detects that 99% of new upvotes are coming from a server created yesterday with 1 post, it could at least flag it for a human to review.

Oh good, can't wait for my feed on here to be absolutely slammed with porn bots. We made it, boys.

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I can't speak for Apollo but I used RIF and old.Reddit

I work with a bunch of techies with various opinions on this; he said I like "an app that looks like it was from 10 years ago", which was meant to be an insult, but I think is actually the point: it was text-first, list view, "get out of your way" to enjoy the content.

I don't like advertising pretending to be content.

I don't like the integrations that pushed paid crap like their version of Bitcoin.

And I am here because even though Reddit is still active, it's clear that the ship is being sailed solely by momentum at this point and the company is, well, only going up be able to do so much until they can't pay what little staff they have. The way the mods and app developers were treated this month was the lowest of the low and sealed my decision.

When Musk gets kicked out of art school, we'd better be ready

The rich at this rate

This one is so reposted in my Star Trek groups that they ban you if you post it. Just a heads up if you're just now getting into Star Trek stuff...

Gravity Falls?

One. One nuke could potentially disrupt it...but it's not really advised for a few reasons:

• If the conditions are still there that built up the storm, you've basically just nuked some wet air - if the pressure gradient remains and the waters are still warm, it very much could simply reform immediately
• Dumping large amounts of energy into an active system might just turn it a different direction, unpredictably; you might steer a storm right into Miami that was just going to hit some empty marshes
• Dumping large amounts of radioactive materials into a storm heading towards you might just end up making a giant somewhat radioactive hurricane, which is not great
• Puerto Rico does not appreciate you dropping nukes just offshore

Shut up and take my gold.

Wait.

Typically people will prefer the option that gives them a $50 water bill over a $200 one.

I'm now your friend too. Sorry.

Don't forget the free ice cream when you signed up this week.

...you guys did get the free ice cream, right? It was on the sign up page and everything?

Unrelated but someone needs to port Bobby B bot over here

Bit of a blind spot there

Yeah, the absence of a slew of editorialized content, obviously being pushed by larger groups, is kinda nice. Like I think I've interacted with more people on here in the past 24 than I would in a week over there

I just want to know where they got those extra-long bootstraps

I'm guessing this is just going to be an on-demand version of NASA TV? Which is still cool, it's one of the only places I've seen that you can actually hear about real science just flipping through channels (looking at you "Science" channel)