This may be a hot take but I think it’s a reasonable trade-off. It’s not enabled by default, and if you do want to use their (free) AI features on your data, they get to use that data to target ads.

I used it for a number of years (it was very cheap if you bought the 3 year plan) the speeds were good and as a n00b I appreciated how simple it was to get up and going.

Ironically the reason I gave it up was when I switched to Linux full time!

I’m going to wait one year before I do anything but these projects do look satisfying.

This will upset a lot of creators. I know they can’t just up and leave but I do wish more video creators just uploaded their content to other platforms (peertube would be nice!) the same way musicians upload to every streaming service. At least offer viewers a choice!

Yeah I agree with that. I think ideally the real “balance” is going to swing in wildly different directions depending on the instance and what kind of experience it wants to provide.

Yeah I fully agree re: blocking at an individual level, but I’m just saying I also understand why someone may encounter the fediverse and be turned away at the prospect of putting in so much work just to even see if they like it. Admins need to step up too.

Totally but in practice they’re not, and that’s the issue, imo. We’re halfway to being Voat with a trans-flag colored paint job

Hah well… for starters I would say emotionally mature people don’t tend to make demands of the people they’re replying to.

I know a handful of people that tried Lemmy at my insistence but found the overall culture even more insufferable than reddit and honestly I don’t even blame them. I fear that a lot of folks here are so desperate to “beat reddit” that they are willing to tolerate the most repulsive behaviors and it’s only going to push the mature people away.

I hope I’m wrong, but for someone who doesn’t care about decentralization, being “not reddit” is really all I can see that we have going for us.

I’m convinced this is true. Ever since the big redesign in 2018 (holy shit was it really eight years ago?) that kind of homogenized the whole platform, it became clear that the people reddit was trying to attract was not the communities but the mindless scrollers.

But the paradox was that some person had to want to post the content and make it feel alive, but that person is not needed anymore.

Facebook is entirely slop, scams, and bottom of the barrel memes but they make billions from attracting the dumbest users who will click on ads and that’s where reddit wants to be.

I was all ready to make a Kobayashi Maru joke in the comments, but uh, I guess I’ll see myself out.

This is interesting but oddly difficult to parse, ironically the writing style has LLM vibes with all the fluffy generic statements and overall lack of density.

I don’t get why they leave up removed posts like that, they used to just disappear completely unless you somehow knew the URL.

No see, SFA is a grimdark edgy teenage drama thats also cloyingly sweet with too much combat and too much talking things out. It also features a commanding officer (who happens to be women but i dont care about that even though im mentioning it) sitting down in an unconventional manner, which is extremely unprofessional (professionalism is something I care about deeply as a linkedin user) but also a thing we have never, ever, ever, ever, seen before in any star trek ever, but especially never in rick berman star trek which is the original star trek.

First of all most mods didn’t make their communities.

Whether or not it’s a biological community or was adopted by a new mod it is irrelevant, imo. Someone made it what is today and that’s the mod I’m talking about.

you’re presuming the bans had anything to do with rules

No, I specifically said “for any reason”. I mentioned rules to highlight that the mods themselves write the rules, and can interpret them, or add to them however and whenever they please.

You seem to assume, again, that people are only banned for breaking rules.

No again my point is the exact opposite. Mods can ban for literally any reason they choose and they are not obligated to communicate a reason why to anyone.

The mods don’t have to, and don’t bother, telling you what rules you broke.

Exactly. Any rules are irrelevant as they are written by the people enforcing them anyway.

That’s official reddit policy.

It is, but I think that mandating that people respect it when someone says “leave us alone” is a good policy. Reddit sucks hard, but having site-wide bans of people who don’t understand/care about basic consent is step zero to having any healthy online community.

There are already widely-federated instances that allow their users to behave a lot like Voat users, sadly.

Looks cool!

Yeah that’s fair, but the fact that they’re having CEOs on at all and allowing them to hype their product is enough for me.

Bro what? it’s not a real show relax

Wow what a piece of history. The fact that this exists should serve as evidence that TED is complete bullshit.