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No Stupid Questions

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Same thing as the current race to the profit at the bottom of the septic tank that meta, twitter, and reddit are in now.

[–] ieu 1 points 1 year ago

I think it would be good for Lemmy and the fediverse

[–] habanhero 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In terms of data privacy it would become a nightmare.

However I think Zuck would be a massive improvement over spez in terms of strategy, diplomacy, PR rizz and general chill. And this is not a very high bar.

[–] ieu 1 points 1 year ago

True! Thanks for contributing!

[–] Playlist -4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Don’t wanna be a grammar nazi, but seeing {if} and {would} in the same sentence is just painful, even tho I’m not a native English speaker. And I’m sure this rule applies to a vast majority of languages around the world.

To answer your question, Reddit is already going public and is getting an IPO later this year, so I don’t think it would be drastically different from now, except we’d see the Meta logo everywhere.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I don’t think its really a very strong rule tbh, if it is one. I’m a native english speaker and I hear people say if before would all the time.

In the sentence in question, “were to” would probably work better, but mainly as would had already been used earlier, and it feels clunky repeating it.

“If you would do x for me, that’d be great.” Good example of an if before a would.

[–] MaShinKotoKai 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Asking "what would happen if..." is an acceptable structure for the hypothetical.

[–] Playlist 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Sure, totally agree. But in this case you’re placing « would » before « if », which is not the case in OP’s title.

[–] ieu 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the answer.

I also didn’t know there was a rule against this. Cheers!