I think he announces things before he's even spoken to the team. He took a lot from trump's playbook when they started hanging out
Wow... Who gives an unreasonable timeframe like that, then pulls the plug 12 hours early??
Holy shit, thank you... You just made something click for me.
If I replace Twitter, YouTube, Reddit, NYT, and all those other annoying links in just two places, I'll never have to see that crap again. I'm always clicking on interesting posts thoughtlessly just to be hit by a loginwall/paywall... It's not that big a deal, but it would make my life like 2% more pleasant
I already am doing something for Lemmy links because they've been driving me nuts, compared to checking 1000 links, adding a few more will be easy
Holy shit, thank you... You just made something click for me.
If I replace Twitter, YouTube, Reddit, NYT, and all those other annoying links in just two places, I'll never have to see that crap again. I'm always clicking on interesting posts thoughtlessly just to be hit by a loginwall/paywall... It's not that big a deal, but it would make my life like 2% more pleasant
I already am doing something for Lemmy links because they've been driving me nuts, compared to checking 1000 links, adding a few more will be easy
Holy shit, thank you... You just made something click for me.
If I replace Twitter, YouTube, Reddit, NYT, and all those other annoying links in just two places, I'll never have to see that crap again. I'm always clicking on interesting posts thoughtlessly just to be hit by a loginwall/paywall... It's not that big a deal, but it would make my life like 2% more pleasant
I already am doing something for Lemmy links because they've been driving me nuts, compared to checking 1000 links, adding a few more will be easy
That's funny, I did the opposite - I got used to developing on osx, then Linux, but that was always on my work computer - my desktop has always been Windows (I'm still using the same license and chassis from the computer I bought in high school a decade and a half ago).
Then I burnt out hard, and started picking up contracts here and there, but didn't have the money to pick up a second computer powerful enough for gaming or work. So I ran virtualbox and avoided cmd like the plague for a while... It was driving me nuts, so I made plans to run Linux with Windows in a hypervisor - I was looking at pci passthrough so I could give it direct access to the graphics card.
But then wsl came out and it just didn't seem as important. Even as Linux gaming has grown, I just haven't felt the need to switch... It's sometimes finicky and setting everything up on a new computer is a pain, but the only time I considered switching one of my machines over is setting up LLMs - that was a real pain to coax into working, and it'd run better on Linux
I made 2 posts on Reddit, one was a meme about my friend jumping over me to see my username, the other was some random text post. Thousands of comments though
It's just not in my nature... So much so that I'm trying to release a Lemmy app tonight, and I just remembered I haven't started on the ability to post...
Everything else came easy to me - you should be able to click on anything, everything should stay where you left it... But I have no idea how people want to post. I should probably just do it now before I overthink it
Here's the other thing - he's maybe a millionaire, not a billionaire. That's middle class, maybe upper middle class if he's got other income
This is a normal person who just lost his job with little notice because of a greedy company, and, to add insult to injury, now has to come up with money for refunds out of the blue
I know I wouldn't feel good taking back that money, whether he can afford it or not
Like what? I'm about to launch an app just in time for the shutdown, my goal is to capture this wave and spread them out. If I haven't covered it already, I'll see if I can take care of it today
I'm with you there. I liked Reddit because I'd write out a long post, and in doing so come to better understand my own position, and hopefully influence some future lurker. I knew most people saw a bunch of text and kept scrolling. Occasionally I'd get a thank you or gold, but very rarely would someone actually engage with me
People even went out of their way to tell me they didn't read it sometimes. One guy even said "I don't even know you, my girlfriend doesn't talk to me that much", which was hard to know how to respond to... So obviously it took another wall of text
My first day here, someone replied to my comment and ended with "sorry it got so long"... On the 15th I left Reddit and decided I'd never go back, but that's when I stopped feeling a sense of loss about it
I think it's more just because we're early adopters and the first wave of refugees.
We're building something here - and right now, for some it's a new home, for some of us this is something big - a place that resists monetization. This isn't just the fresh new version of social media, built by cool people who have the best intentions and a vision (I think most of them did, at least initially)
Admins go bad, already some of the instances I'm on have people starting to look at not just paying for servers, but making a profit. And if they can live off the donations - fine, more power to them.
But when someone comes knocking with a bag of money, what are they going to do? They can sell us out, but they can't go far before we leave... What do we miss out on? The content will either follow or we're missing out on content elsewhere.
And we can mitigate it further - too many talented people care too much to let this idea die. We're going to face difficult times, but it's a new ephemeral Internet built on top of the one stolen from us - it doesn't start or end with a reddit clone.
And I think that's why we care - because this time is different. It can't go bad the way everything else does. It relies on no one, and it's built from all of us
This place is ours. No kings, no masters, no capitol, no capital
I think he announces things before he's even spoken to the team. He took a lot from trump's playbook when they started hanging out