Obelix @ Obelix @feddit.org

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Well, that's an absolute no-go and thanks for reminding me to never buy one of their products

Yes and no. First of all, there is nobody who wants to take over. So the option is "abandon it" vs. "kill it". Reddits actions in regard of their mods do have consequences. And it also doesn't belong to the community as Reddit is actively claiming ownership. So to take your church analogy: The pastor wants to quit. The bishop claims ownership and control of everything, is actively harming the community, but can't provide a replacement priest.

And in my opinion it is better to stop projects like this instead of abandoning them as abandoned places & subreddits will get taken over by spammers, crazy people and full on nazis.

It's already here :)

TBH, it does make sense: Posting a legitimate comment and then editing it after a while is a popular tactic of spammers. Post something, get the top spot and after the post has gone out of the popular queues, edit in your personal spam links and profit from all the sweet traffic coming via Google -> Reddit -> Your site

Yes, you are doing something different here, but for an automated moderating system that looks exactly like a spam attack. Overwrite existing comments with the same post & edit in an external link.

And sadly you need those automated tools as a Reddit mod and if Lemmy is keeping it's growth, we will need them here, too. Spammers will come and they totally will overwhelm moderators trying to do it manually.

I run a small thinclient (HP Mini G400, but those small Lenovos thinkcentres and others also work) in my home. Cost me ~100€ plus a few Euro for a RAM update and a bigger hard drive and now I'm running Proxmox with the help of the Community Scripts:

https://community-scripts.github.io/ProxmoxVE/

It's quite awesome, to be honest.

I mean... why wouldn't all that is happening not have a effect on sales? Musk is the face of Tesla and Musks image has totally gone downhill for lots of people. He's gone from "techbro genius" to "fascist" in a few months (!) in the public image and there is really not reason to doubt, that this won't have an effect on sales.

I mean, evolution kind of might work around the ozone layer being gone. People just need to have children before the skin cancer kills them and that's totally possible. Might be good if the parents don't die when the kids are too little.

Evolution really doesn't care about your personal well-being and won't help you. It might "evolve" the human race to get children earlier in their teens, because everybody over 30 is dead from skin cancer and microplastics, but maybe the better solution is to use something different in hair spray and fridges.

It makes sense that there still are physical games. There are many people with no internet or slow internet. You can gift them to your children or friends on their birthday. You can sell them/pass them on after you've finished the game

Many models on Thingiverse and Printables are released under a CC-licence, so it would be possible to use that as a basis for an independent model database or some kind of decentralized fediverse STL databank, however that would work

Be the chance you want to see in the world and email him?

I don’t think phone makers are that close to ad companies

Google?

Yeah, they had a really good thing going on and it's sad that it didn't last.

Yeah, LLMs could really help. Other tools without AI are also helpful. The problem with all those companies is that they don't want to do moderating for the public good at all. Reddit could kill a lot of Fake News on it's platform, prevent reposts of revenge porn or kick idiots just by implementing a few rules. They don't want to

Yeah, high-res video will eat those TB quick. I started to clean up my collection - if something really was not good, I stopped watching or lost interest, it goes into the bin. Collecting is great, but there is no reason to keep some mediocre Netflix shovelware around that was canceled after one season.

And if you go out and order a drink, you might get 3 or 4 straws. Yes, it's stupid. Yes, it doesn't make sense. But it happens and people throw their to-go drinks into the environment after they finished them

Yeah, but it's a quick win. Ban some single-use plastics and prevent it from getting into the oceans because it doesn't exist. Yeah, you have to do something about the fishing nets, but there is no reason to not take those quick-wins

Why shouldn't it be relevant? The waste is out there, is being found on our beaches and the industrial plastic waste is not swept up as often? So why would a regulation to prevent the most common plastic-items on our beaches from being there be bad?

It's kind of crazy - those plastic Q-tips are only better if you want to totally wreck your ears and every doctor is warning against that. For every legitimate use, those paper variants work perfectly well

If it gets swept up on the shore, it's in the ocean. So it totally makes sense to prevent it from being there.

Just FYI:

Single-use plastic products are used once, or for a short period of time, before being thrown away. Under the EU’s rules on single-use plastics, the EU is tackling the 10 single-use plastic items most commonly found on Europe’s beaches and is promoting sustainable alternatives. The 10 items are

        Cotton bud sticks 
    Cutlery, plates, straws and stirrers 
    Balloons and sticks for balloons 
    Food containers 
    Cups for beverages 
    Beverage containers 
    Cigarette butts 
    Plastic bags 
    Packets and wrappers 
    Wet wipes and sanitary items 


  

https://commission.europa.eu/news/less-plastic-waste-means-cleaner-beaches-2024-08-14_en

So yeah, nets are bad, but straws, plastic bags, cigarettes and packages are also a problem.