We are tribal animals and will do this with just about everything. See also: politics, religion, ancestry, food, computer platforms, smartphone platforms, clothing brands, astrological signs, science fiction franchises, choice of pet, which way the toilet paper goes, etc.
knotthatone
joined 2 years ago
And not to overlook #211: Employees are the rungs on the ladder of success... don't hesitate to step on them.
What makes you think a monarchy would do anything to combat a corpo hellscape? If history's any indication, they'd probably make all the CEOs lords and turn everybody else into an indentured peasantry.
I tried, but it didn't take. The comment deletions were all restored the next day. I haven't asked for the account to be deleted, but I think that still leaves behind all the comment history.
I'm with you. All the leaks I've seen so far have said it'll be flat. The curved screen protectors are awful and I've broken my Pixel 6 Pro's screen twice now. It's otherwise been a great phone, but I won't buy another curved screen phone ever again.
I completely agree. I just don't see how there can be any realistic expectation of privacy when publishing something publicly.
I appreciate the idea of laws establishing a right to be forgotten and I think there's still some value in being able to take your data away from certain companies, but there's no guarantee it wasn't copied many times before the original location is taken down.
The Fediverse works like email. Once somebody hits send, there's no real way to claw that back.
Cynicism? On Reddit!?
In seriousness, I think it's a mix of things. There's survivorship bias--some number of Lemmy posters (me, for example) have left, never to return. So we're not in r/RedditAlternatives speaking in favor of Lemmy. Some of it's frustration over this whole situation. It is very unfortunate things went down this way. And there's legitimate criticism too. Lemmy's got quite a bit growing and maturing to do before it could get anywhere near the size and breadth of Reddit.
But it's also important to realize Lemmy is not going to be a clone of Reddit. It's not trying to and it wouldn't succeed if it did. No one thing is going to replace Reddit for everybody. Personally, I think that's a big plus. There's value in a smaller community. I like that Lemmy is decentralized by design but there also needs to be more diversity on the Internet in general. Some communities will be better served by spinning up their own message boards, going to different sites and experimenting with different formats. Quite a few are going to stay on Reddit and probably thrive for years to come. And that's fantastic, that's what we should've been doing all along.
Singular, monolithic solutions are the real problem, imo.
Oh, I agree wholeheartedly. Decentralization is the way to go and I hope Lemmy succeeds. This particular implementation may or may not work out long term, but the underlying idea is sound.
We'll get it. Might take a couple tries, but we'll get it.
Nah. If Lemmy/Fediverse doesn't work out, there will be others. This has all happened before..
And as a public company, Microsoft has a lot more options to leverage their equity than a private company or individual does.