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There is a hole if you look close enough…

Macncheese isn’t a big thing in other countries. Now cheesy potatoes with raisins!

Caught covid in line at the gas station for a lottery ticket :(

I check out reddit every few days and tbh lemmy has the same amount of mainstream content. The only difference is that reddit niche subs are more active.

I think the fact that anyone can make the same community on a new instance diminishes niche communities more. If I pick a game on reddit ill find 2 or so instances with lots of use. On lemmy there will be 10 communities all mostly abandoned.

You can feel a difference on reddit though. Quality content and content numbers are greatly reduced from even a month ago.

He who controls the spice, controls the universe.

-Baron Harkonnen

I pay 150 a month for 20/10mbps (actual is more like 10/5) with a 1.5tb cap. I would stab a baby to get yours.

If you are really unlucky the number doubles so many time you end up tied on the tracks.

The last panel is most noticeable… but not the only weird arm panel.

Lots of money… like insane money for how much work it is.

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That’s my problem I have 8 cheat days a week :( Hard to lose weight that way!

The difference is that the email protocol has long been established and any new email client is built to that protocol standard. What we have here is an open protocol still being developed. The fear is that FB will force changes into that protocol and take it over. Then it will no longer be an open development protocol. By expunging FB right now before they get a firm grip on the userbase it can preemptively prevent FB from causing damage.

We are kind of in unexplored territory right now. You could compare it to google/MS taking over xmpp but it’s not quite the same situation either.

But the reality is that the current fediverse doesnt need facebook to be successful. It already has the users to continue to grow. By combining user pools facebook would have the majority share with their instagram users which means they would have a controlling share of users and would leach users away from the fediverse over time until they broke away at which point fediverse would die as most users would be forced to follow in order to keep their feeds.

This way those feeds never mingle with FB and thus fb cant leech them.

This is not true. I have always surfed the frontpage and I dont subscribe. If I want to read a sub I specifically go to that sub.

The amount of content being posted this week vs a month ago is significantly less. I can browse the front page right now and it will take me significantly less time to get to the dregs (threads with less than 20 replied) It used to take 2 hours but you can get these today in about 10 min and then once you’ve seen those posts they will stay on the first 10 pages for days instead of what used to take a few hours.

This whole thing feel like a giant slice of gas lighting to me. Most of the comments and upvotes appear to be from bots. Even if you read one of those 50k+ comment treads you’ll hit comment chains that are obviously just bots talking to themselves saying the exact same things in the same order with only slight variations. It’s weird.

Time will tell if reddit survives. I kind of think they will survive personally. But its not going to be what it was even a month ago for a while.

Yep. Got the warning but works just fine.

Has anyone thought of trying to integrate APIs from places like https://www.stopforumspam.com/ ?

Just give them a hug and tell them everything will be alright… you dont always have to try to fix everything! (or so my wife tells me…)

The biggest benefit I see so far is the lack of bots. I know there are still some bots out there but most of them are useful bots and not just karma farming bots or bots designed for propaganda.

I have accounts on a few different communities. Mostly because there is no real way to know how the community is until you start interacting with it and it starts interacting with with other communities.

Beehaw is nice because they are actually trying to cultivate a friendly community and moderate a lot of the trash out. But also… sometimes you dont want that hand holding…

This problem existed on reddit too still. You have r/games r/game r/gamers r/gamenews r/gamernews etc. All trying to do the exact same thing.