Yes, gotta give PP props for championing the cause, calling shenanigans and keeping on going (hats off, my dude) but we're centred around BBBY (I am, at least). It's not a cult of personality.
@Ppseeds - I'm sure it's a headfuck to have had such a stream of attention and validation/hate/love/online attacks/Pultelove these past weeks, but please try to keep a level head as best you can.
I don't remember this one but I've listened to a ton of these. Not in the last few years so much (although I see this is from 2014). When it's good, it's really good. Will give it a go :)
it's a weird one but behind all of the smoke and mirrors, it's a group of investors who are closely following the Bed Bath & Beyond (BBBY) bankruptcy.
We've been watching as hedge funds have conjured up billions of shares (many more than actually exist) and sold them all to drive the price down. This (illegal) practice is called naked shorting, and it's how a popular household name has been forced into bankruptcy.
Still, bankruptcy is a process and the story's not over yet.
Lemmy's all right (it's certainly better than the hell site) but this place doesn't feel super-cosy just yet.
There aren't many people here, is the obvious thing.
The website design isn't as inviting or as cosy as Reddit, is the other thing.
I wouldn't say that it's 'hard to use' - rather that it's 'not as fun' to use. Somehow, I'm getting an old-timey 'information superhighway' internet vibe here - it feels a bit like a GeoCities site, or a web portal for editing router settings.
I don't mean to have a dig, btw. I have huge respect for whoever's cooked up the fediverse and has worked to make it into a thing - this thing that we're connecting with. Humanity needs a means to connect that's free from corporate shepherding, neuromarketing (the dark arts) and whatever spooky agendas are lurking behind or within the YouTube sidebar. I'm on-board with the fediverse for sure.
Just acknowledging that despite the very many obvious similarities, something about Reddit makes it more appealing/cosier/funner, currently. It's probably a hundred near-imperceptible somethings, but give Lemmy time to develop and mature. It's young and has a bright future imo.