13 or 14 years here. I didn’t delete my account but I don’t even want to give them the traffic from going back to see my join date.

If I did a single thing this douchebag has done, I’d be in jail. Yet he’s the front runner for president for a political party. Blows my mind.

I cannot wait to not hear his name or voice again.

He is. He’s your average internet troll that made a few lucky decisions in the past.

And don’t call me Shirley.

His best decision to date, yes.

According to the website, it’s been completely drawn and is done.

Either Lemmy is late to the game or ai knocked it out before we could contribute.

That’s the size my supposedly powerful computer thinks every PDF is with Acrobat Pro.

It is and has been a mainstream site for a while now. It’s followed the same trajectory as Facebook. The typical user only cares about the topics that interest them. They have zero interest in what’s happening in the background and are fully accustomed to being blasted in the face with ads 24/7.

Progress is forward, not backward.

Good writeup, but a few things I’m taking away from it.

1. I’ll say it again, fuck RedditCorp.

2. A recurring theme I’m seeing in these articles is the framing of it as a RedditCorp vs mods issue. I was just a user. Yes, the mods got screwed hard here, but so did any casual user who relied on well-designed apps to allow them to access and participate in the discussions they cared about without being clotheslined by an ad every 5 seconds. This is as insulting to the users as it is anyone else.

3. It’s been mentioned by a few others but why did they choose Discord? This article points out the flaws with it, all of which would be resolved by migrating to Lemmy/Fediverse. I’m not a user of Discord or Reddit, so I’m not tuned in to their reasoning.

4. Related, another article that gives no mention to the incredible growth that’s happening over here. Maybe that’s for the best, but a little exposure couldn’t hurt. I know all of my niche equivalents over here are silent.

5. Shoutout to Guy in the article, most of the things he said are 100% spot on for members of any passionate community. I hope more people who continue to use that one outdated site read this article and finally ask themselves, “Why the fuck am I still sticking around this place?”

Yes, albums weren’t $10, even on small labels. We were dropping $20+ hoping for the best. In some cases convincing ourselves it was good, just because we spent so much on it.

I’ve never heard the term sealioning. Is it really a thing?

I don’t think it is, but if you have any evidence to prove it, I’m listening.

The only thing I want to read about her is that she’s decided to exit politics and live a private life. Thats it.

Yes! You made it over here!

This makes me happy.

I believe this is the correct and uncontroversial explanation.

I’ve heard of exactly 50% of these artists and don’t really know any of their music.

I’ll crawl back to Berlin where my Spotify Wrapped says I belong.

Not sure how well this would work for Hawaiian cities, but San Francisco utilizes a network of cisterns in intersections that are ready to go if needed.

https://www.kqed.org/news/11622273/what-are-the-mysterious-brick-circles-in-san-francisco-intersections

Old tech, but I’ve always found it a pretty brilliant idea.

Oil/grease + tomato. Dawn.

This picture is an absolute classic. Back in the day, that girl was depicted kicking every possible thing imaginable and then some.

Yes, the American experiment with segregated uses continues to fail. The solutions have existed for millennia.

The sooner we accept this and move on, the sooner our cities can be the vibrant, healthy places they could’ve been a long time ago.