As far as I understand, lemmy.world is banning/defederating piracy communities. This made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months 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 11 months ago

Nothing about that entire situation is good advertising.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months 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 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months 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 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months 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 11 months 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).

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Appreciate the H2G2 reference 😌

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I've never seen it shortened that way before. Is that common?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Quite, yes. Douglas Adams himself founded http://www.h2g2.com back in 1999.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Huh, TIL! Thanks! :)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

This was what this post was referencing. Thanks for answering this question for me! I haven't watched LTT/LMG in over 5-6 years, so I have no idea what's going on with that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I too would like to know

[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago

Multi billion* Shit is getting out of hand

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

You can even hear the heavy breathing