Quit_this_instance

To heck with you for your stupid opinion, everyone is obviously always positive here

Subs=subscriptions.

Was wild logging in this morning to see it and thinking “yep this is going to be a hit” and coming back to see the highest voted Lemmy post ever

Glad another Marxist said it. The problem isn’t that capitalism was always the wrong choice, it’s that we’re clinging to it long beyond its best before date.

New Comments is also good.

Jokes on them, we can’t sort by upvotes and downvotes in most cases anyway

There’s no way to prevent it entirely. A larger community will slide that way.

I do think that it can be less encouraged though.

I don’t really want to miss my family for that long. Maybe I’d go back to when my kids were babies and become a live-in nannydad? I could see that getting weird though.

If I didn’t have that level of control but I absolutely had to go somewhen, I guess I’d either go a few decades in the future to see how it shapes up, or to the neolithic era so I could finally find out a bunch of things we’d never otherwise have known. That era seems like it was pretty cool, and I happen to know enough baseline science to actually recreate some of my favourite amenities.

They’re not slaves. They’re rubes, but not slaves.

I highly doubt it. There’s no shortage of people willing to do it for free.

Yes, they apparently are going to remove me from the private subreddit I had set up a few years back for bot testing.

They’re a joke.

Somewhat. In different cultures they can still mean different things but smiling and laughing from happiness and humour are universal afaik.

This still adds another moving part to duping people. It’s much, much easier to independently verify the software if it’s open source.

My only complaint is that subbing to new communities seems to be a huge chore in jerboa

In the three or so days I’ve been using it it’s expanded noticeably, and I’d say it’s on the verge of being big enough already. Once it rounds that tipping point it has a decent chance of becoming sustainable on its own.

I’d suggest that beehaw’s concerns could be met with a tool that lets you disable posting or voting from off-instance users unless they meet threshold criteria, whether it be account age or post history or manual approval. That would allow you to keep your content interaction controlled without the nuclear option of complete removal.

That sounds like one of those things where you forget about it, then years later realize how fucked up it was.

There are still a lot more people on twitter.

It’s actually a pretty common character arc, it’s just unusually blatant here.

A different group took over, and money talks. That’s about it. That’s why if we want to maintain a non-corporate internet, decentralised social media are the only option available.

I’m going way back here, but I recently grabbed the original Doom, mostly to show my kids for historical value. I did play the shit out of the shareware version of the game, but I never got into the full game particularly… by the time I was old enough to survive the harder levels, there were fancier games out.

Now, I find myself surprisingly addicted to a 30 year old shooter. I had forgotten why this game is such a classic, it’s just… it’s just friggin’ good. In terms of fun and depth of play, it holds up just fine compared to far more advanced modern games.