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[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I thought it's some people defending LTT/LMG after their latest stunt (possibly single-handedly killing a startup)
Linked post is also locked for some reason

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Holy fuck, single-handedly killing a startup is way to exaggerated. I really don't wanna defend LMG/Linus here, their mistakes are horrendous and Linus' response was laughably bad. But Billet Labs are fine, they probably got more good advertising out of it than anything else.

They themselves said "What's happened recently is blip, we will not be stopped." on a r/LinusTechTips post

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Anyone remembers the Scrapyard Wars series by LTT? about 5-10 years ago. That was really great content.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

The good advertising only happened after everything went down, before that they were discarded/dismissed by the largest tech review channel on the internet.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Nothing about that entire situation is good advertising.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is your link meant to direct me to a foot fetish image? Or is it some federation shenanigans?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

they linked to post 886994 on startrek.website however the client you're using loaded up post 886994 on lemmy.blahaj.zone

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks for the explanation. I have heard of this phenomenon but never personally encountered it myself.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

posts having different IDs per instance did trip me up as well but i found out this is a surprisingly common practice on nearly all fedi software

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yup - I copied the link from the "rainbow point-to-point pentagon", posts should be shared on fedi with that (that's the original instance's post).