I’m imagining that as a Will and Grace gag and it’s pretty great

sad trombone

As I see it now, the lemmy spirits have seen fit to have some sort of geometric score progression

I agree with your agreement therefore I am ENTITLED to upvotes

1. Browse new
2. First comment
3. Collect massive Internet points
4. ???
5. LEMMY

I never really did this on the bad place but if you browse new and fire off something snarky or heartfelt first it often becomes the top comment in my experience

(Possible) room temperature superconductor and (possible) broad-band super-chemo in one week, eh?

Lemmy really needs filter words for times like these.

I’d also like to argue that they can’t talk about Reddit itself over there any more because of the pervasive manipulation and censorship so we should make space for that conversation over here.

I think you are right about the normal users but I think they alienated a big percentage of top mods. I think the consequences of that are just starting to manifest.

If memory serves, it’s in reference to the ancient mammal and also the metal band

All the Lemmy (and Kbin) servers (instances) can theoretically talk to each other. You can follow communities on other instances and comment and post like you are used to.

You could think of each server as an independent city-state, each with it’s own leaders, customs and citizens.

If two instances have a feud that can’t be resolved, they will “defederate” and then their users will no longer be able to contact each other.

There are Nazi instances here in the Fediverse (for example), but they get blocked on sight so you almost never see their garbage in the feeds.

Does that help?

Honest question, why isn’t your clubhouse over at lemmygrad enough?

1. They basically say they are, and also run explicitly tankie instance lemmygrad.ml
2. Look at the modlog for lemmy.ml. Among other things, anytime someone has an opinion about China who isn’t Chinese it’s “Orientalism”

Damn they really hate their users

So basically Reddit sucks at ads too 😂

Do you know something we don’t know? Are they secretly courting a private buyer instead of actually going for an IPO?

Not an advertiser but they generally know % of views (“impressions”) to clicks (called click through rate) and percentage of clicks that turn into sales (called conversion rate).

For that reason, I don’t think they’re trying to get rid of human users completely, just the “troublemakers”.

I think they want to lead the “silent majority” users into a bot advertorial content hellscape where they control all the levers of power and everything is for sale.

Also, infinite layers of meta commentary and criticism of the meta and criticism of that criticism… I’m home

Never underestimate the power of shitposting

I hear he doesn’t really think much of his father’s moderation policies and he might be looking for social media alternatives