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[–] sunspider 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

One thing to consider is that the CEO and other people in his position are the people who have been working over the last half century or so to create the system that allows him to do this. It's right to blame the system, but it's easy to forget the system is made and run by actual people. To start to dismantle the system it will involve taking away the power of people like this, which could be seen as demonizing them.

[–] sunspider 24 points 1 year ago

I love this bit from the article:

To a request for comment, X only sent Ars an auto-response, saying, "Busy now, please check back later." (To be fair, in this case "check back later" is a good summary of what happened.)

[–] sunspider 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Don't worry, it's just a Team Fortress 2 reference: https://youtu.be/PLmrdZVvtT8?si=CpKmRpdGU-l3aDa1

[–] sunspider 24 points 1 year ago

"How to be a good human owner"

[–] sunspider 82 points 1 year ago

Here you go:

HELP IM TRAPPED IN A DILDO FACTORY

[–] sunspider 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah exactly. It does have some features that require integration with the init system, which systemd obviously supports, but it could be used independently of systemd quite happily, and other init systems could easily support those integrations.

[–] sunspider 8 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Is the bottom picture AI upscaled? It looks way crisper than I remembee that meme ever looking

[–] sunspider 1 points 1 year ago

It's not, it's based on an old meme.

[–] sunspider 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Had to find out what this was from. Its a webcomic called Wormworld Saga, and it looks pretty great!

[–] sunspider 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Its not a bad comparison. Sure, some details might differ, but the underlying concept of a build that only uses the open source code is the same.

[–] sunspider 1 points 1 year ago

Hey, removing this as off-topic. A community like [email protected] might be better for these types of questions.

[–] sunspider 1 points 1 year ago

Removing as this is off topic, but I've cross-posted to [email protected]: https://lemmy.world/post/205415

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/201350

The funniest part of the article is how he's slamming the actions of unpaid moderators while saying "they’re mad because they used to get something for free, and now it’s going to be not free".

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by sunspider to c/lemmyworld
 

Hey there lemmings!

It's your friendly neighbourhood Sun-Spider here. I recently volunteered as a mod on this community, so I just wanted to introduce myself and let you know my plans.

Many of you will have seen that there are a lot of off-topic posts in this community right now. I suspect that new users, especially ones not yet familiar with how Lemmy and the fediverse work, are seeing it as a kind of default community or a place to generally discuss the world of Lemmy.

However, as it says in the sidebar, this is a community about the lemmy.world instance specifically. If it's going to serve as that, then it can't be drowned in off-topic posts.

To that end, I plan to start going through and removing posts that are not discussing this instance, with two exceptions.

Firstly, I know that some of these posts are providing good info to new users coming from Reddit, so I'd like to not take those down just yet. Since this is such a visible community, keeping them has value. Therefore highly upvoted posts that are specifically for newcomers from Reddit may get left.

Secondly, I know that removing posts with many upvotes and comments could be seen as overly harsh. While we don't have a karma system here, if you had a post that has done well then suddenly seeing it removed is painful. Therefore if a post is off topic, but is nonetheless highly upvoted, then I may instead simply lock the post. This preserves the content, but prevents further engagement. This should mean that it gradually falls off the front page, whose default sort is Active.

TLDR

  • Posts that are not about the lemmy.world instance specifically will be removed, with the following exceptions:
  • Some posts providing value to new users will be left
  • Some posts with high engagement may be simply locked

Update

Check out the new communities [email protected] and [email protected]! These are intended to be a good home for a lot of the content that's getting removed/locked.

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submitted 1 year ago by sunspider to c/ukcasual
 

This community still needs an icon, and just the flag is boring. What does the community want to see?

 

Only On Tuesdays is a smaller channel I started following recently. I think his Character Crisis series is great content, and I thought it might be appreciated by people here.

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submitted 1 year ago by sunspider to c/smashbros
 

Hey all! Come introduce yourself. Which Smash game do you play? What kind of player are you? Lets get to know one another!

 

Full link: https://lemmy.world/c/smashbros

Instance relative link: c/smashbros

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by sunspider to c/smashbros
 

Welcome smashers!

This place is pretty empty right now, but I'd love it to be a welcoming community of Smash players. To that end, what kind of posts do you want to see when you come here? Memes, combo videos, discussions, or something else? Let's discuss it and build the community we want to see.

I'd also love feedback on the rules. Are there any missing? Is the language clear enough? Let me know.

 

Hallo Nederlanders; ik woon in Groot Brittania, maar ik ben half Nederlands van mijn vader. Ik heb nog familie in Nederland en dus wil ik mijn Nederlands oefenen. Is dit en goede plek om dat te doen?

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