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As someone who loves sashimi, I'm secretly hoping that demand will drop sufficiently so that prices will be lowered.

If nobody is getting fired HR won't be there

Even digg is still around.

What I'm trying to say is, these companies don't use stock buybacks with the intention of going private. They're doing stock buybacks to keep the stock price high, so they continue to please stockholders.

Stockholder pleasing is unfortunately not going away anytime soon.

I've lived in a city all my life. I dream about the day i can retire/ find a remote job that allows me to work in a place surrounded by nature, in a house with a basement and my own backyard and ample space.

as then the company is no longer saddled with their primary responsibility as making money for their stockholders.

Hah! If only that were true.

2 things wrong with that analogy:

1. Restaurants don't advertise "unlimited condiments".
2. Condiments aren't the main business of a restaurant.

But if a restaurant offers an all-you-can-eat buffet, there will be people stuffing themselves silly, because that's what they advertised.

Unlimited doesn't mean "upload what you want to a certain limit", it means "upload what you want, as much as you want".

You're misunderstanding the word unlimited, as countless others before me have already pointed out to you

But what about... Other orifices?

I posted a long reply above (direct link https://lemm.ee/comment/2929349).

I posted a long reply above (direct link https://lemm.ee/comment/2929349).

Thanks for responding!

I agree that it's best for the lemmyverse.net if there are many big instances too.

Unfortunately, the concept of the fediverse isn't as easy to understand. The average newcomer (who mostly just wants to consume content and occasionally ask a question or two) starts off by interacting within their instance, and it takes some time to figure out cross-instance communication (there are still posts about this on the nostupidquestions-type communities). For such users, landing on a small instance means they'll poke around the Local active posts, think that "this forum is dead", and never return.

Like reddit, having a large userbase on lemmyverse is important to keep the conversation interesting (see https://i.imgur.com/4tXHAO0.png). Reddit has provided lemmy with a huge shot at success by injecting a large number of users. But if I'm being honest, the conversation on the lemmyverse isn't as diverse and engaging as it is on reddit yet. This isn't self-sustaining yet. I can point to 2 pieces of evidence to support this:

1. Using Voat as a (imperfect) proxy - I don't know if there are official stats of Voat, but the best dataset I've seen for Voat (https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/ICWSM/article/download/19382/19154/23395) has 16.2M comments in 2.3M submissions from 113k users. Voat was shut down for lack of funding, but even in its heyday it wasn't exactly thriving - many people on Voat were united in their toxicity and it never really got going. Compare these numbers to the lemmyverse which has about 100k active users over the last 6 months. If the fediverse is to grow beyond "that niche forum for nerds", this userbase isn't enough.
2. It's already clear that the number of active users is decreasing - since mid-July, the number of monthly active users has dropped from 70k to 50k. This is expected (bunch of redditors who joined in June, poked around and said hi and left), but it means if the lemmyverse wants to have any chance of succeeding long term, you can't alienate new users now.

The approach I've been advocating since the beginning of lemmy is:

• if you see a user who's interested in lemmy but isn't really tech savvy, just point them to one of the biggest instances. Don't explain what federation is, leave it as a feature to be discovered once they're engaged.
• if you see a user who's interested in the concept of a fediverse and wants to know how it works, explain federation and send them to a smaller instance.

The way federation works now, it's still disadvantageous to be on a smaller instance (discoverability of new communities is harder, syncing posts/comments isn't always fast, it's hard to know which community is more active. Many of these can be fixed with changes to activitypub and lemmy protocol, but in the meantime, sending casual users to small instances means they'll likely never return.

So to sum up, I think there should be an avenue for casual users to join the biggest instances, even as we encourage people to move to smaller ones (either targeting those who are more tech savvy, or those who have already been on Lemmy long enough to know how it works - I myself was on Lemmy.world and switched to this "smaller" instance).

Anyway, you're the admins here and I have no say over what you eventually do. I'm just hoping you'll consider the practical realities of user behavior - everyone wants what's best for the fediverse in the long term.

Even with alt brands it's an expensive hobby in general.

First you complain about the price of the bricks

After some time you start complaining about the price of shelves and drawers

Sooner or later you'll complain about hedging to buy a new house with a basement or an attic to for your collection.

Please please do not implement an invite system.

The success of a forum like this depends on people being able to join and express their thoughts freely. Reddit and digg would never have gotten where they are if they had a closed system.

I almost didn't join lemmy because the first two instances I heard about (lemmy.ml and beehaw) had closed registration. I think I applied and then forgot about it for 2 weeks. Thankfully I saw a post about lemmy on reddit yet again and finally found an open instance.

Don't let the actions of a few scumbags ruin a good thing for everyone. You'll be giving them exactly what they want.

There are things i like about ios and things I like about android. And to be fair, both companies have somewhat converged slightly over the years (and learnt from jailbreakers/rooters).

The main thing I still like about ios is that swipe up for control center works better, especially when screen sizes are now all >5".

Things I still like about android:

• you can sideload apps without resorting to exploits
• you can transfer files directly onto your phone without using itunes or some weird hack

Ultimately I usually end up on android because the sideload/file transfer thing becomes a deal breaker, but I like that ios provides Google and other phone manufacturers with a reason to continue innovating.

It sucks that Samsung is the only good phone manufacturer with a well-rounded flagship that can (mostly) be used with one hand.

CEO of a product ridiculing a competitor's product? I'm shocked, shocked!

Oof. That's embarrassing

I don't hate vegans, I hate the sense of superiority that majority (but not all) of them seem to have. Instead of trying to find common ground and talking about the issue, they alienate themselves from others. You're exhibiting exactly that behavior.

And for what it's worth, I don't think I've ever used the phrase "college boy".

The US navy ran on windows xp for so long that they paid Microsoft to continue maintaining it after EOL.