no offense

DING DING DING. Here's Facebook's playbook:

1. Create close sourced ActivityPub implementation to federate with mastodon/lemmy and gain users.
2. Offer better experience than competition via exclusive features, reliability, more communities, etc.
3. Once enough users have been obtained, completely defederate from fediverse.

I will not ask my fellow lemmy community members to blindly trust me on this.

Ok, I don't trust you.

[citation needed]

That claim is not on the article. Did anybody read it?

Have you ever used cheats on single player games when that was still a thing developers put in games? I did, it was fun. That's why.

Of all the formats you mentioned these are supported on popular platforms:

• Twitter: gif
• Discord: gif
• Mastodon: gif
• Reddit: gif, apng
• Tumblr: gif, webp
• Lemmy: gif, apng, webp

That's why gifs are still a thing.

The article doesn't say that. The title is false.

You can do that now with a heat gun and some very basic tools.

A heat gun is a specialized tool. That's the problem.

The fact that GIF is still a thing in 2023 is baffling

As opposed to what widely supported animated image format?

In that case the only people that can answer the question are the engineers from those platforms.

Flagg Center Church? As in Randall Flagg?

I remember a similar case regarding Windows shipping with IE. Whatever happened with that?

Here's a video of John Oliver talking about the problems with the cash bail and here's another one talking about bail reform.

The Fountain

The film score is absolutely fantastic.

I like being able to say what I want without being banned by a power-tripping mod

There's currently nothing stopping a mod from creating a bot that deletes comments below certain threshold or that bans users for commenting on communities they don't approve like they did on Reddit. Only site policies can prevent that.

Lemmy only has the voting per individual post and comment, but doesn’t accumulate this as a sidewide score.

Lemmy does have a karma system. Here's yours.

But what’s the actual problem with the ability for posts to have negative scores?

It incentives self censorship that turns sites into echo chambers. e.g. Reddit

Kilroy was here

But I wasn’t even talking about women’s sports, I was referring to how there are people literally referring to minorities as subhuman and calling for them to be wiped out. Is that not hate enough for you?

Yes, I would consider referring to minorities as subhuman as hate speech. My point is how easily some people throw the phrase 'hate speech' to validate their own views and silence debate.

For someone so concerned that your arguments might be mischaracterized, you sure are quick to make sweeping assumptions about people you don’t know.

99% of the people in here are Reddit users, I know those very well. I created my Reddit account 13 years ago when it was a thriving site where you could have discussions just about any topic, instead of the echo chamber that it is today. That's why I will continue to call them out here, until eventually they take over like they did over Reddit and all dissenting opinions are banned.