in general I would assume any subs not participating are run by mods who value their mod status more than the quality of their community

idk if you came up with this but I expect to see this joke a bunch more in the coming days lol

"The suckers we talked into giving us money for our crazy salaries over the past decade+ want a return on their investment so cough up"

Interesting that he would try to use the potential number of views as a selling point while also publicly decimating the reach of Twitter posts lol

idk about OP but I use chrome because in Firefox I have to manually download my web history and send it to Google so they can log it for my security, Chrome streamlines this process and ensures Google has my data even if I mistakenly wonder onto a website they don't have trackers on

This title is under a few layers of irony, there are similar pictures floating around of green spaces converted to highways in the US with the same title, OP is suggesting the European version actually is progress

I feel like this reveals an uncomfortable truth about the lemmy user base lol

Threadiverse sounds like what Meta/Threads would call the fediverse lol

At a high level it just comes down to the company not being structured to generate profit -- fundamentally it exists to justify moving money from investors to the owners of reddit. That has worked up until now but in the current economic climate investors are looking for a return and it's exposing how many tech companies have been burning cash because of how easy it was to get with minimal accountability. Any feature reddit adds hasn't actually had to increase revenue, it's had to convince investors that it is going to increase revenue, which is why the few features they've added have basically been clones of features that attracted investors to other platforms (like the video streaming thing)

After nearly two decades of running the company that way it's going to be hard to pivot to actually generating money directly to cover what I imagine are loads of unnecessary expenses and inflated salaries

The old internet didn't have an all encompassing issue with bots and bad actors trying to gain your trust, a public post history is basically the closest thing a person can have to a trustable identity online, it's not a perfect solution but it helps

Breaking their users' trust by appending attribution tags to their URLs should've been unforgivable but I still see people pushing their browser online

Just dropped a crisp fiver on Oblivion, figured 17 years of people telling me to play it is enough reason to give it a shot

It's worth noting that also according to that article women attempt suicide 1.3x as often as men -- but men are more likely to use guns so they end up dying more. It seems to me guns are a core part of the issue

regular ambulance rides are free anyway

what in tarnation

replace them with something that doesn’t rely on centralization with lots of capital to stay afloat

There's no conceivable reason that reddit shouldn't be profitable right now with the market saturation they have unless the majority of people who've been making money off of the site up until now have been minimal effort contributors trying to get their piece of the money pie. 99% of the work is done by "unpaid" (by reddit) mods yet somehow they still have 2k people on the payroll and still need to centralize more and more capital to cover the overhead, it's easy to imagine most of their current expenses are going to dumb corporate tech money sinks that are going out of style fast and have little to show for the last decade of spending lol

It makes sense to me that people are more worried about potentially any corporation / bad actor accessing their data rather than one

Yes it seems like this move basically reverses all the progress that has been made this week, suddenly kicking everyone out of the most popular communities just as they were starting to participate is not going to go over well. Nobody is going to switch to lemmy if popular instances get overwhelmed so easily

Jamie Hyneman

This article is literally the first time I've heard that he's running as a Democrat and not a Republican lol

The key is amassing a large enough audience of people who want something new, not just people who want a 1:1 replacement for reddit. There's no way lemmy will be able to compete in content volume but I think the idea of "non corporate" social media will be attractive to people