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After sleeping on it I'm more annoyed by PP & Pulte blatantly cutting off any interesting BBBY discussion. Jake2b, the attorney, Houston Wade... Every time they were cut off and momentum on the topic killed, never to return. I think they were trying to make it more about themselves and didn't like the spotlight shining elsewhere.

Disappointed people are not shills. We must refrain from a cult of personality, because the types which gravitate to that spotlight are usually disappointing. This event was rife with "cult of personality" which turns me off completely. But I acknowledge that some people are jazzed by such things as this event, HS pep rallies, religious services, etc. I'm just here for the DD, analysis, and a few hits of tin.

I think Pulte likes to play off the community hype around ice cream & 741. It was obviously orchestrated & he's a hype man who aspires to to deliver what the crowd likes. Is there actual significance around 741 & ice cream? Perhaps, or maybe there used to be, or nothing at all - but it's community symbolism none the less.

LC's participation was the one sticky point for me. Even after sleeping in it I'm still of a mind that RC is trying to placate the most currently active sub-group of his investment followers until D-Day, and likely convinced LC to make an appearance to pacify & intrigue this audience in lieu of himself.

I haven't watched more than a few minutes of the actual PP show before but this seemed significant enough that I had it on in the background while finishing up work. Thoughts:

• Whole thing occurs at a windy airport tarmac, with a stage & everyone waiting. Pulte & PP arrive by helicopter. Why? Why that place, why a chopper? Pulte highlights he paid for the heli ride, not paid by participants' $500 tickets. Chopper remains in the background the whole time. Is it vanity, or a clue?
• Holy fuck Kais shouldn't be on the stage. I still don't know why he's significant.
• Lots of promotion of PHM
• Lots of circle jerking. Konga line of it.
• Houston Wade is weirded out and doesn't seem to be buying the production. He's stuck on stage, poor guy.
• Pulte says he is NOT involved with bbby or Teddy in any way, but says he'd invest 1m if RC lets him. Someone calls him out that he could invest a lot more than that, and has dropped several million in Twitter/X.
• Pulte shoots down every bit of tinfoil theories about him, no validity to any of it.
• LC attended virtually, talked for 5 min. Pulte made it clear LC will not be discussing any publicly traded companies. LC comments about the helicopter... The damn chopper again - was LC subtly calling Pulte vain, or is this a coordinated reinforcement of a clue? Leaning towards the former. Most of what LC says is about RC. I'm really surprised he agreed to be a part of this... And why LC? Did RC convince LC to do this as a consolation prize to placate the PP crowd? LC is the GME investor furthest from bbby, at least as far as we currently know. Was RC a consolation prize delivered by RC?

This has left me very confused. I try to keep an open mind about Pulte but this made me dislike him more... Everything he said was the most meaningless generalizations delivered in the style of a pseudo-politician. He's a trust fund-ed 35 yo who looks 50... But RC keeps liking Pulte's tweets and then LC. My BS sensor is detecting a presence, but the signals are too mixed IMO. Is this all a make-a-wish production for Pulte, with RC & LC humoring a dying man-child? I kid, but this whole thing is just so unexplainably strange.

Still don't care for PP though, sorry. His app idea is just dumb, but I think Pulte is funding it.

Thoughts?

Why this isn't making waves , at least within the finance industry, is beyond comprehension. Market makers in general are a scam and go against the idea of a free market & laws of economics (other than human greed) regarding supply & demand.

The finance industry is a parasite on the human species.

Big picture this is a good thing, though. The "fediverse" is not one thing, just like the internet - and comments like this are equivalent to someone in 1994 refusing to touch the Internet because some sites which existed on it contained porn or whatever.

The great thing about the fediverse is you can choose which elements you interact with, just like subreddits. Not into marijuana? Cool, don't go to r/trees. The only difference is there's no governing body which can shut down independent entities which push porn, Qanon, hate, etc. Don't like Threads? Me too - just don't go there. It at least offers a path for Threads users to join the decentralized world.

With Lemmy there's distinct difference between the frontend/UI & backend (the application itself, & data storage). Lemmy is primarily the backend, but they allow anyone to create a frontend (or mobile app, browser extension, etc.) to interface with it. Lemmy does come with a default web UI which sucks, and this is where Kbin rose to initial popularity with a slightly better web UI. Now there is a robust ecosystem of apps like Voyager or Sync which are quite good and far more enjoyable to use, even when compared to Reddit's official app.

Good news is the web UI can change, and you can experiment with other federated instances which uses different web UIs.

Lemmy's main problem is a lack of user base and content. I've lurked daily on Reddit for 13 years without an account, but with Lemmy I'm choosing to vote, comment & post to help get the "ball rolling". Reddit had the same problem initially, and the creators & friends busted their asses with alt accounts to give the impression of a larger user base... Until Digg imploded

PP's app idea as a forum is the stupidest shit he's said yet. He forgets that he isn't the main character of this community, and it was simply dumb luck and circumstance that led to his handle/name being in the subreddit's name we all congregated in. I fear he's trying to capitalize/monetize on his 15 minutes, and this isn't the way. I'm not installing a "PP app", but I would actually donate money to someone(s) wanting to stand up a dedicated "stonks"** lemmy server. Hopefully we have a conclusion to this story before the ambitious dev intern who offered their services has a prod release.

** FoilVesting? FTDville? Or default to the existing WhyDRS ?

Ha, Doug Cifu the shady CEO of Virtu? Your comparative statement is an apples-to-asparagus analogy, like "Larry the Cable Guy">Hitler... Although I'm not 100% certain, considering I still don't know who Kais is or why he's a sideshow character in this story's plot.

Can someone educate me on who exactly Kais is or his background? People seem to refer to him like a sideshow character who, from my perspective, appears to be a self-aggrandized moron that foolishly presents himself as a spokesperson for this collective to the media. A troll-food buffet, unfortunately.

Agreed. Links to content on it posted here should be via nitter.net where at least I can view without a login.

Further, I'll say this community should no longer the "property" of PP, but the collective we've become. We are all individual investors making our own decisions & enjoying this unique community of people, not PPseeds himself - in fact I've watched maybe 5 minutes of the show ever; can't stand it, and certainly don't have time to listen to 4hrs of BS for maybe a few minutes of solid content. This community, though, is special. Nowhere else that I've found allows for big-picture discussions outside of specific stock tickers, and I do appreciate the GME/Butterfly/IEP (and more) theories & tinfoil.

Again, fuck Twitter/X. Any links to that awful platform should be through nitter.net like a condom.

I really hope this becomes the defacto forum for this community. I've been dabbling in the Lemmyverse and it seems like the most appropriate solution at this time. Not only am I suspicious of Twitter/X, but it is a terrible design for forum-like interaction - in that regard Reddit's format really is ideal, and that's what Lemmy has emulated.