Games publishers are in a war of attention and don’t want to compete with themselves. They won’t sell you an old game if they can get you hooked on the new version with microtransactions and DLC with no story and sub-par multiplayer.

The next point is just making the case for open source.

No, it’s fine.

The “community” is here, not a matrix chat.

Nothing prevents you setting up your own instance. In fact, I’d say you probably should. If you’ve invested so much into this name already, then you may as well.

I’m sorry but Quackhouse is a terrible name.

This should be a sign of whats in store for GB news. Cleese is a sign of times past, they’re appealing to an aging and dwindling base.

This man is trying to roast the woman for something she’s clearly not ashamed of, while publicly outing himself for spending $30 on a single wank.

When I was learning programming I wrote a small program that I called for_you.exe. It printed an animated ASCII penis ejaculating on some boobs. I emailed it to my girlfriend and thankfully she thought it was hilarious. We’re still together.

Sometimes I’d settled for a simple description of what the tool even is. Sometimes the readme is just straight into compilation steps and I feel like we’re rushing into something.

They are a lifestyle brand and play on that to keep people trapped. People who buy Apple like the aesthetic of appearing wealthy. It’s classism through consumerism, even if the consumers don’t realise it.

Apple’s terrible privacy policy (yes, despite the word privacy appearing in the ads), atrocious right to repair stance, and aggressive software lock-in tactics should put any person who cares about those things off.

There was a purpose to buying Apple when they were the only player in the specific niche. Audio engineering is a great example of this. In the 90’s, Apple were really the only valid choice in a highly specialist field. Microsoft caught up in the 2000s, with Linux not too far behind in the 2010’s.

So nowadays, the limitations are effectively self-imposed. You can spend whatever money you want on a setup that will do whatever you need and the OS is a personal preference.

It depends where you go, surely?

I’ve met a fair number of numpties on Reddit but I’ve never had anyone tell me neckbeards are an oppressed group until I came to Lemmy 😂

Jokes aside, it’s easy to avoid toxic people on here since they usually announce themselves loudly. It’s easy to block users, communities, or even servers if you don’t want to see something.

Personally I don’t use Netflix but I think this should serve as a reminder that the internet isn’t a good barometer for real life opinions. You’d have thought Netflix was about to Blockbuster itself if you went off Reddit comments alone.

Anyway, the real question is how bad is their churn rate. If their numbers jumped up but only last a few months before cancelling, then this isn’t really that great. They really want those numbers to stick.

Reddit and AI companies are all financially backed by the same people. Anything they lose on Reddit (which they aren’t) they gain on the other side. Plus, bots make this unlikely. Who wants an AI trained on spam bots and automods?

Don’t let Spez make it sound like everyone working at Reddit is broke and needs pitying. He wouldn’t be CEO if he wasn’t on CEO pay.

The irony is these reduction are basically insignicant.

So yeah, well done for killing the planet a fraction slower than you would have otherwise done, UK.

Don’t even waste your breath convincing idiots like that. They are too uninformed on too many topics to be worth investing the effort in. You’ve got a good shot at convincing people who are on the fence but culture warriors who rely on Steven Crowder for their talking points aren’t going to be convinced by anyone or anything.

Austerity is as much the voters’ addiction as it is the Tories and Labour have been framed as the “spend money for free stuff” party. Starmer has to combat that image if Labour want to succeed. No matter how many times you show the figures, people believe that Labour spends money and Tories save it. That’s the kind of uphill battle Starmer faces in order to put Labour in power.

Note that we don’t have a president. The Tories have changed leaders basically non-stop in recent times. If this doesn’t prove to you that a PM is just a figurehead then I don’t know what will convince you. Once Labour are in power, they can be held accountable on issues that matter.

Well firstly, why do you care about being banned if you’re leaving Reddit?

Come to terms with Reddit not dying overnight. Lemmy isn’t going to vanish if people don’t move over straight away. Reddit will eventually succumb to the 1000s of tiny self-inflicted cuts. Post content that isn’t on Reddit and people will have a motivation to stay here.

Exactly. I didn’t want to say it, but the comments I keep seeing saying the barrier for entry is good get me down. It’s not just incompetence that gets filtered out when you refuse to adapt.

People are really married to this initial idea of what Lemmy is and don’t seem to want to let it evolve. Of all the existential threats to Lemmy, fading into irrelevance is probably the most likely.

I think so. I think younger users trust official branded apps a lot more so actually see the Reddit app as safer. Despite how easy tech people think lemmy and mastodon are, picking a server just isn’t a feature to non-tech people - it’s an obstacle to getting started.

The lack of content is a problem, but the lack of community feeling is the actual offputting part. Having bots repost things from Reddit kills the organic feeling of interacting with another user.

I’ll probably be flamed but I do think having such a homogeneous userbase is negative. It means you don’t get a wide array of experiences and viewpoints. People bang on about echo chambers online, but if you are in a club full of old white guys then you’re in one!

I’d like think we can make these platforms as welcoming for everyone of all backgrounds, genders, etc, but there’s just some things we can’t understand without having those viewpoints being represented.

They’ll be going after VPN’s next. “Online safety” is just a political football to be kicked around.

The idea is moronic, but the blame lies at the feet of Christian conservatives who vote with their feelings. All of the moral panics of the past several decades have emotive and religious roots.

Another thing to point out, Sunak had one foot out of this country before he became PM, he wouldn’t have to know the deleterious effects of any of his or his predecessors actions.