Serinus @ Serinus @lemmy.ml

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And the Biden administration has been pretty good. Not great. We're hardly moving the ship, but at least it's in the right direction.

I'd rather move two knots in the right direction than ten in the wrong one.

The whole "Bernie bro" thing was 90% astroturfing. I'm sure a few individuals hopped onto that artificial bandwagon, but I don't expect it was too many.

Yeah, it's a little weird to me that there's so much focus on third party app development when the platform itself is so new.

The old Reddit apps bringing their userbase over is great. Having several brand new third party apps is awkward.

In the future I can see media going the way of Kickstarter.

Season 1 is free, high quality production. Season 2 needs to hit $10-20 million on not-Kickstarter, and if it passes they send you a novelty USB containing seasons 1 & 2 (as well as give it away for "free" on Netflix or a streaming site).

But it's a lot harder to price gouge in under that model. The show Friends made literally billions of dollars, and that's a hard sell for a Kickstarter model.

Poland being in NATO makes "fear" a strong word. "Precaution" is probably more accurate.

If that example had a little more substance and better context it would be valid. It's important to recognize that most Nazis weren't cartoonishly evil. Some may have even been mostly good people who supported the worst possible politics.

Acknowledging that makes it easier to spot similarities today.

Soon, when things go smoother, I absolutely wouldn't mind either having ads or paying a low annual fee.

The problem with Reddit was seeking out vulture capital. Turning a small profit, enough to pay people something resembling wages, isn't a bad thing.

There's a lot of discussion about Twitter imploding too. It's not just that it's an ex for most of us. It's also the tech implosion.

clearly there should be ways to do it

Your votes on Reddit are public to Reddit admins. On Lemmy anyone can be an admin.

Giving vote totals without names makes the system ripe for fraud and abuse. In real life votes the decision to make votes public or private is a major one. In a system like Lemmy, the problems with private votes are exaggerated, and the problems with public votes are much smaller. Your Lemmy name shouldn't be tied to your real name. It's unlikely anyone is going to coerce your vote like they might coerce your political vote.

If you're concerned about anonymity, maybe use more than one name or a different name so that your account isn't so easily tied back to you.

The purpose behind having votes be more public is to have some kind of reputation behind those votes. It's still possible to shill, but it requires more depth and and effort, and the shills may still be discovered if there are too many.

then I will simply not use the site

Maybe that's what you should do. But don't do it as a protest. Do it because you don't want to share that data publicly.

The entire point of social media is sharing things publicly. If you're worried about people collecting that data, then you shouldn't have put it in public.

There aren't good ways to keep a public secret. That's inherent to how information works and not a failing of ActivityPub. It's the same reason media will never stop being pirated. If I can see/hear it, I can repeat it.

And it doesn't mean it's nefarious. It just means... you should know.

It would require a warrant signed by a judge with probable cause.

Wiretap warrants aren't easy.

As one of those, I can't even really answer it.

I used to spend hours a day on the site, mostly on my phone. Now I'm blocked from accessing it on my phone at all. I've stopped doom scrolling reddit altogether.

But I still get linked to Reddit often, from both friends and google searches. And there are one or two specific threads that I'm sure to check.

I've basically cut down from 15+ hours a week of Reddit to less than one. So have I quit Reddit or not?

I think it's both, actually. Lemmy is often giving html where json is expected, and Jerboa isn't handling the error well.

Try just enabling nsfw. I haven't seen porn on Lemmy yet.

A bunch of bullshit so that Boeing can sell the shit they want to sell.

I'd be interested in hearing what they are using for safety-critical OS. Notice they said "software engineering" and not "OS", which makes me think they're running on Windows.

Most Windows drivers also run in kernel mode.^[https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/gettingstarted/user-mode-and-kernel-mode]

What you're missing is that you'll drive up the price. You'd be validating everything Spez did by turning it into a reason people want to buy Reddit.

/c/league@lemmy.ml

It's one of the biggest subs on Reddit, but having trouble taking off here.

It is kind of weird that out of the six people involved in that, only she gets the attention.

It called them /r/jailbait and /r/the_donald.