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Speak for yourself. I'll slur all his disabilities any chance I get.

That doesn't fix anything due to federation. Dog piling discourages people from critical discussion or from asking questions from fear of having the angry mob turn on them too. It leads to shallow and one sided discussions, especially in posts with a lot of participation. The only productive discussions I've ever had either on Lemmy or on Reddit have been one-on-one comment threads in small subs/buried posts.

But Lemmy knows what it wants to be, and I'm not saying it should change. It just isn't really for me.

And what does that get me other than making a statement? It’s only because of people like you that I have to worry about driving it anywhere.

I'd get a "Fire Elon" sticker or something, maybe overlaid on the image of him doing a seig heil, right next to the Tesla logo.

This is very wrong. Teslas are electric vehicles, and for a long time people who actually believe in science would buy or aspire to buy a Tesla as a personal way to combat climate change. Even when they had a ton of problems, people would be willing to pay a premium for them (a lot of people also just bought them because they were cool, but it's unlikely many were Nazis). That really only started to change when autopilot started killing people and Musk began to show his true colors.

Being able to just replace your car on a whim is a luxury for wealthy people. Plus, think about what happens if you sell your Tesla; who will buy it? Probably a Nazi, or an opportunist looking to flip them if the value rebounds. It's not going to accomplish anything but potentially financially hurt the person selling it. It definitely won't do shit to the stock price, because stock prices are rarely grounded in rationality, and the people invested in Tesla all have their own theories that make them believe it's a good investment despite current events.

And also, you don't hurt billionaires by attacking regular people.

Btw, I fully support slapping swastika stickers onto Teslas no matter who owns them. That's non-violent and non-destructive, and it helps remind people what Tesla represents now.

It's not just the tankie stuff. Tbf this place at times feels like the far left version of 4chan, and I say that as a very left person. Reddit's upvote system has always had an issue with brigading/dog piling leading to hostile discussions and echo chambers. In Lemmy, the issue is worse because it feels like most of the people who were drawn here are deeply tied to that culture from Reddit. By contrast, Reddit has a lot more young and innocent people to soften things.

I quit/deleted my Reddit account many years ago, before Lemmy's rise in popularity. I just come here every once in a while because I like decentralized/fediverse stuff, but the Reddit formula really does turn me off. I can't imagine the average person having the stomach for this brand of internet discussions, regardless of political leaning. It's quite hostile and combative.

But then voting is competing against the time-honored American tradition of sitting on your ass.

Republicans should be worried about which sub-group of theirs will become the next target of this bully's wrath if the democratic party really does dissolve. The only thing this guy has ever done policy-wise is organize hate around groups of people. He's not just going to turn into a positive and productive president if the country goes fully red. When inflation reaches the point of no return, and there are no democrats to point the finger at, who will he target next?

I use MXRoute, which is a similar tiny/one-person email service. Also great so far. I use it for personal stuff + a client's professional business emails, and haven't had any issues with either.

Supporting small businesses like these feels great!

Also the Android TV app is AWESOME!

What do you run Android TV on? Raspberry Pi? My cheapo solution has been to use an old Android phone that supports DP alt mode (USB-C to HDMI adapter) combined with a USB hub + generic air mouse/remote + customized launcher.

It actually works surprisingly well. I installed FCast on it, so it even works like a Chromecast. If I'm watching a video on my phone using Grayjay, I can just cast it to the phone and it will start playing automatically. The only thing stopping it from being perfect is that it can't turn the TV on automatically. As a plus, since the phone has a battery, it's always powered on so I don't have to wait for stuff to boot, and it uses relatively little power.

... but overall it's janky and finicky, and the OEM bloatware is probably spying on me, so I've been looking for alternatives that can match the good parts of this setup.

I don't like Raspberry Pis for this because they're overpriced. I have a couple that I could use for this, but I'm hoping to find a cheaper solution, and one that I can recommend to friends/family when they ask. (the Android phone I'm using cost me a total of $15 on ebay)

Wdym? It literally says the podcast name is "The MeidasTouch Podcast" in the first sentence.

He dropped relevance in 2009

He might be a Nazi asshole now, but he very much is still a thing. He has never released an album that didn't reach the number 1 or 2 position in the Billboard 200 rankings in the US, with same or similar success on ranking charts around the world, and that includes 10 albums released after 2009. The most recent was a collab in August 2024, and the most recent solo album was in 2021. Both were extremely successful and well received.

I think that's just a common typo. The difference between '. ' and ', ' is hard to spot unless you have good eyesight, and they're close together on the keyboard

For that side of reddit, you're right.

But for the uniquely useful side of reddit, federation won't help. If I post a question like "how do I get this obscure game to run well on this obscure Linux distro?", nobody is going to repost that for me, and if I don't maximize the amount of eyeballs on it, it's unlikely I'll get an answer. My best choice is to post it on reddit, either in /r/linux_gaming or in the specific game's subreddit.

I assume that most users who post anything at all on reddit do it to ask questions like that.

The reddit concept of subreddits also doesn't work well with federation IMO (at least no Lemmy's implementation).

Want to talk about video games? Well, there's no /r/games, instead there are bunch of different /c/games on different servers with varying amounts of activity. You basically gotta make the "pick a server" decision again whenever you post something. If you make the wrong choice, your post might not get seen by anyone, and even if you post to the biggest sub, you'll be missing out on eyeballs from people on other servers who aren't subscribed to that instance for whatever reason.

For example, lemmy.ml/c/linux_gaming and lemmy.world/c/linux_gaming have around the same number of subscribers. Should I post to both? Maybe the same people subscribe to both, so that's pointless? Or maybe I'll miss out on a lot of discussion if I post only to one? There's no way for me to know.

For me, it makes Lemmy less useful than reddit for asking really niche questions and getting useful answers. For posting comments on whatever pops up in my feed though, it works great.

I don't have any good solutions to this, and I'm sure it has been considered already. When I first joined, I remembered seeing people bring this same issue up, but it doesn't seem like it went anywhere? (Or maybe it did?)

No one knows what the deal is with that relationship. Maybe this is all part of their plan, maybe Elon has dirt on Trump, maybe he's brainwashed and neuralink is more advanced than is publicly known. Maybe they're both being blackmailed, and Joe Biden is the one really pulling the strings, and he's trying to destroy the country as revenge for Harris?

There are a lot of equally likely possibilities here, so we shouldn't try to jump to conclusions.

As a software engineer who started programming when he was 11, I get what you mean about "ladder climbers" feeling alien (my elitist term for them is "9-to-5ers" or "pedestrians").

However, I think this question is dumb at least so far as it won't work to weed out the people you think it will. I don't read fiction often, and the only scifi books I remember reading are Dune and Prey, but that's very out of character for me. It's pretty much luck that I read those, and more a factor of me just being an old fart (I'm almost 30, and that's a lot of time to stumble upon at least one scifi book). Ask me this question a few years earlier and I'd draw a blank.

Both were good books, but nothing that would consider a "favorite". Dune is memorable to me just because it very clearly was based on Lawrence of Arabia, which I found neat. As for Prey, I only vaguely remember something about killer nanomachines, and that it was a fun read.

But if you're specifically looking to hire someone you can talk scifi novels with, then it's a very good question (as long as you're mature enough to hire someone who says their favorite book is one that you hate).

Literally nothing. A corporation, especially a publicly traded one like that, can't do much but maximize (ideally long-term, but usually short-term) shareholder returns.

The Activision-Microsoft merger is a good recent example of this. During the anti trust trial, the CEO of Activision literally came out and said that he believes it's a bad idea that will be bad for the industry and bad for the company in the long term, using the impact of consolidation in Hollywood as an example, but he has to side with the board. He's basically legally obligated to.

I'm not saying it's unjust or a bad system (and I'm definitely not trying to paint Bobby Kotick as a good guy), I just want to point out that corporations are very simple in their purpose, and nobody should be expecting anything more from them. If you're disappointed that Google made this 180, that's on you for falling in love with a corporation. They're useful tools for producing goods and services, but terrible as a political tool for democracy.

But for some reason, it became popular to fetishize tech companies, and that spawned megalomaniacs like Elon, Zuckerberg, Horowitz, Thiel, etc who feel like they should be the supreme rulers of our civilization.

To my knowledge Musk is gambling with his own money, not hedge fund capital or something.

Well, he had to get financing from multiple banks to purchase Twitter