DrQuint @ DrQuint @lemmy.world

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They did and it was visible, since the admin account name would be on those pixels.

And if people DO start being problematic, reddit mods will just start erasing things by hand. They were spotted doing it last year.

Honestly, the correct way to protest would be to just spam KBIN and Lemmy everywhere in /r/place.

Western Europe has a couple. Either way, I wanted one but got a lawyer telling me I'm better off not getting it, because I'd only ever be able to hand footage off for insurance and I'd better hope the incident was in private property.

They make it so I can't subscribe to this community as they will fill the ever living exultation of my feed. Too many.

But I'm not saying remove them.

Hmmm, "as common" is subjective. Where I was from, dashcams weren't allowed.

This community already has so many duplicate article posts it's unreal. What I don't understand is ehat they gain from this. Karma is non-existent, no one is going to check your account's reputation or whatever.

You're saying we don't already?

Hit it Joe!

Users.

Why not once a day? You'd still not be making much out of it and I think there's enough assholes that you're not making much of a dent to the asshole flux.

An infinite money credit card would be pretty small, I think.

But I get it. I would honestly just pick an ability like being able to match other people's problems with the ideal solution if one already exists closeby. So, say, someone comes to me looking for a job, and I just magically happen to know exactly of a phone number for a company that needs them. Someone looking for love, and I just happen to know that if we walk down a certain street and make a certain joke, someone else will overhear and love it. I would eventually have a reputation.

Wasn't aware of that site. Thank you.

I mean, what makes something official in your opinion? I could just open one now and it'd be as

<fictional institution>

I HAVE seen people turn around discussions when they have evidence of being more in the know than the established flow of Karma. Hell, I've seen it happen with people who only managed to produce complex evidence hours in and that I myself had commented in disbelief they could be right.

But it's a rare occurrence even among discussions that do have a person who's such. Often, post scores pre-dispose the new people coming in into choosing who to agree and disagree on, and even the actual expert who objectively "wins the fight" will continue to get downvotes just because the other downvotes were there. This often leads to the whole "Highschool America is asleep, it's okay to post X" mentality you'd see in some communities.

Personally, I think that scoring systems have a useful place. Even downvotes. Sorting things is useful. But I see no reason to actually show the numbers. If scores were hidden, we'd have no more and no less benefits. But that stuff is instance-admin policy and I don't really feel like fighting for it. Right now, Lemmy isn't having enough issues like that that I'm bothered, and I don't know if it'll ever grow to the point it will.

I've tried others.

All of them preload images in posts AND comments.

Some of them let you disable it for posts.

None let you disable it for comments.

I do not use others. Voyager is the best.

Yes, that was the decisive aspect. Fuck preloading images. I do not deign a comment more worth the screenspace just because someone posted an image link, I consider it app-breaking bloat. And man, I like some bloat. I'd be cool with voyager loading avatars or tables if they wanted. Just not things that break the flow of text.

(... I do have Thunder installed just in case they make it a setting. I like the interface.)

Should have shown a very minimalist sized burger and a fun-shaped stupid plate replacement.

Only 47%? Really?

I agree. I find it kinda weirs that "see everything" box is a floating bubble at the bottom and not a bar at the top.

Robots.

I don't think humans have the capacity for utopia. We can cooperate, but even if we achieve a near-optimal performant system of any kind, we never achieve stasis. We have before changed things for what can only be collectively said to be for the hell of it (when in reality it was because someone individually benefitted) and any utopia we'd achieve wouldn't last long and then we would erroneously attribute mistake of that Utopia's fall to its general feasibility. Plus I fail to consider a society that can't last as one that is utopic.

So... We won't.

But robots will. Once we're gone and they're still around.

And I don't think that is a good thing for the robots either.

I have disliked the direction of reddit ever since they made the new interface and removed css rules from subs. It was the first time, of many, that I saw reddit take something from the community and screw it up, all just to make the website more boring. It was especially annoying in that it removed text flairs from support and marketplace subs and forced people to come up with external systems.

They did it more often. Things like Reddit Gold were not first made by reddit, did you know? The whole API thing is just the concrete slab that pulverized the camel all the way to hell. Of all the things they took or took away, taking away the app I was using since years before they even made one was just too much. I can go from passively disliking them to actively hating them.

Plus, what ideas did they actually have that was original or good? "Hey guys, we stole Facebook's chat". "Hey guys, we added crypto". The community makes bots that mediate debates, convert video format or do reminders, meanwhile reddit busies itself by ruining the Relevant option on its already bad search and then fucks off while stating "eh, you fucking degenerate nerds use site:reddit.com anyways"

Also, absolute irony, old.reddit let subs customize the upvote and downvote buttons. So I basically never experienced a consistent subset of colors except on "lazy" subs.

Reddit on the whole was uglier without the free form css.