[-] takeda@beehaw.org 103 points 9 months ago

Maybe Comcast, Facebook or Twitter? Do something good for a change.

[-] takeda@beehaw.org 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Opera once wasn't as shady and had their own engine. It was quite snappy and low on resources.

It is a shame they didn't open source their engine when they switched to Chrome.

Someone leaked the source code, but of course no one serious will touch it.

[-] takeda@beehaw.org 10 points 10 months ago

The crazy thing is that the reason why communism sucks is that (at least currently) it requires totalitarianism to implement it. And that comes with a lot of issues. Communism in theory looks like utopia. Russia no longer is communist, but it absolutely is totalitarian, but according to them that's somehow good.

Also what I noticed is that those tankies on lemmygrad, aren't really pro communism, they are pro totalitarianism.

[-] takeda@beehaw.org 7 points 10 months ago

If his freedom is on the line he would flee. As for properties, he doesn't need to sell them immediately or I don't think he even need to sell them. It's not like he is alone with it.

The Secret Service was caught treading water for him in some crimes.

[-] takeda@beehaw.org 10 points 10 months ago

Yeah, $200,000 is laughable for somebody like him. I feel like appropriate for someone from upper middle class.

[-] takeda@beehaw.org 4 points 11 months ago

So basically boiling frog slowly.

[-] takeda@beehaw.org 12 points 11 months ago

LOL, sorry but if it is control over my computer vs youtube going away my reasponse is "bye bye, YouTube, don't let the door hit you on the way out"

[-] takeda@beehaw.org 19 points 11 months ago

Gecko (Firefox engine) already is worked on, why not contribute there instead of losing community? If anything why those browsers use engine that is controlled by a single company?

[-] takeda@beehaw.org 52 points 1 year ago

Yes, please. We can't expect anything good coming from them.

Last time we were burned (or at least I am aware of) was with Jabber and Google Talk.

It helped them bootstrap their instant messaging, and once everyone was using it they simply blocked access.

It is pretty much guaranteed that Facebook will do the same thing.

[-] takeda@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

He still thinks TD could grow into something beautiful...

originally the subreddit was ironic and making fun of supporters of trump (I think the name was that somebody (Melania?) referred to him with "the" article.

Then it quickly was overrun with people who truly believed that.

Anyway, I also agree that anyone currently creating this community will likely be one of the later group.

[-] takeda@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago

Are they really blind though?

I'm highly disappointed that after Elon took over and then did those changes to Twitter, people still use it, they still post links to it and still talk about it. There wasn't as much exodus as it was.

It looks like Reddit might be the same and people are too lazy to switch to an an alternative.

[-] takeda@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

I think BeeHaw when trying to be a welcoming community and disabling down votes is shutting itself in the foot (e.g. the large numbers of users joined those instances of lemmy, but BeeHaw users could do nothing when they started attacking them.

The upvote only works well when the community is small or when you want to tune the network into increasing engagement (see Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, they know that users not being able to downvote will cause controversial topics go up, and those cause higher engagement).

I am divided, because I also feel like you that maybe this is too much and feels like I'm now needing another account to be able use other communities, but I also do appreciate the effort to trying to have a friendly community. I do think long term this will be harder and harder to manage though...

view more: next ›

takeda

joined 1 year ago