the damage that corporate social media has inflicted on our social fabric and political discourse is beyond anything we could have imagined.

some of my best friends are useless idiot communists!

"Gifted" is a bit of a stretch. They were found in a package addressed to the Red Cross. Rightfully delivered, perhaps.

Big Brother Turns 68: George Orwell's '1984' Masterpiece Coined a Lasting Lexicon for the World

"The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater." - Frank Zappa

OK then - so confiscate and auction off all the board members' and executives' houses, yachts, cars and all their other stuff down to their socks and jocks and we'll settle for that.

Give them a taste of what "financial hardship" really means.

the reality that all of Reddit’s content has been given to it for free by its millions of users

Anyone with a moral compass (and business sense) would have devised a token equity plan to appease 3rd parties and mods. Oh well -- thanks for all the new users, spez. see you on myspace.

If you're installing a fresh checksummed Linux download you shouldn't have any worries. Go for it.

Yes, I agree - there have always been malevolent forces at work within the media - but before facebook started algorithmically whipping up old folks for clicks, cable TV news wasn't quite as savage. The early days of hate-talk radio was really just Limbaugh ranting into the AM ether. Now, it's saturated. Social media isn't the root cause of political hatred but it gave it a bullhorn and a leg up to apparent legitimacy.

I was going to say that hosting a mail server will help you learn to control anger, but your idea sounds much healthier.

We need an open source commerce and logistics platform that can become an Amazon alternative.

Yes, it is a nightmare. The insane volume of ads and clickbait injected into web pages is killing the internet as an information source. Most of the searchable stuff is unusable. Which explains why ChatGPT was so enthusiastically embraced - it's really just synthesizing content into a readable form that doesn't require navigating around a jungle of animated gifs and flashing ads. That's also I think why Lemmy and Mastodon are so refreshing to use, and hopefully will stay that way - although money seems to find a way to ruin everything. Lemmy right now feels a lot like the internet used to be before the big money came along and ruined it with advertising and platform lock-ins.

endlessh

yep... https://nullprogram.com/blog/2019/03/22/

reminds me of this

https://www.vice.com/en/article/d3b7na/the-story-of-lenny-the-internets-favorite-telemarketing-troll

we aren't "competing". We aren't shilling for an IPO. We aren't trying to emulate commercial social media. We don't need 20% annual growth - or even significantly more users. We just need civil discussion forums without vitriol being deliberately injected to maximize ad impressions. On the fediverse, we are not the product.

Her husband has a net worth of USD 10M. Why do rich people never seem to know when it's time to shut up?

yes, that's definitely very mildly infuriating - but wait, your const is a function???

Reddit's CEO just infuriated his striking moderators by saying 'this one will pass,' the way 'all blowups' do. They want to keep the site dark indefinitely.

The Reddit blackout was supposed to be a two-day event. But comments made by CEO Steve Huffman in an internal memo that leaked have strengthened the resolve of protesting moderators, who are vowing to keep the popular channels offline indefinitely.

Huffman, in a memo to Reddit staff Monday, reportedly downplayed the blackout. The Verge, which posted the email, quotes Huffman as saying the company has “not seen any significant revenue impact so far” and “like all blowups on Reddit, this one will pass as well”.

As of 11:00 a.m. ET Wednesday, more than 6,000 subreddits were still dark, with a large number set to restricted access, meaning Reddit users could see old posts, but are unable to make new ones.

Among the subreddits that remain dark are r/funny (with over 40 million subscribers), r/Music and r/science (with over 30 million subscribers each) and r/DIY, which has more than 20 million subscribers.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/reddits-ceo-just-infuriated-his-striking-moderators-by-saying-this-one-will-pass-the-way-all-blowups-do-they-want-to-keep-the-site-dark-indefinitely/ar-AA1cxYJx

fu/spez.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keeling_Curve

lemmy feels more like reddit once did than reddit does now.

NTA. u/spez is clearly the asshole in this relationship. You should divorce immediately.

this is just a quick script I came up with, but it will show you newest communities and their descriptions. It refreshes daily. maybe it will be helpful for discovering niche communities : https://lemmyfind.quex.cc/