The headline is wrong. No decision has been made yet.

I’m not sure what this has to do with the article, but cool story bro.

And so should everyone

2025 — watched Shakespeare in my community park

That’s because l4d runs on x86 and new macs are arm chips.

Hide your kids, hide your wife cause they banning e’erybody out here!

I also have an old account on Lemmy.ml that I signed up for back when the average front page post had 3 upvotes. It was a ghost town, for sure. I was open to using it, but the chicken and egg problem of needing content to get users and needing users to post content was the main issue. The Reddit api debacle injected just enough life into Lemmy to get things moving. I do hope it gets some more users though.

Initially, it was not stable. Lots of outages and issues with spammers, DDOSing, CSAM, etc. Those issues are mostly sorted.

Additionally, there was originally a lot of excitement and people trying to rebuild the niche communities they left on Reddit. Unfortunately, those efforts have mostly faded. There simply isn’t a large enough population here to support those niche communities at this stage. Mostly, people have sorted into the major topics that are common (news, politics, technology, etc.). Due to the demographics of Lemmy early adopters I’d say gaming and Linux are also well-supported here. The federated nature of Lemmy makes it difficult for niche communities to consolidate enough contributing subscribers to hit a self-sustaining rhythm.

Despite the initial wave of new signups and the subsequent dip, I think the population is leveling off and stable. This is good, but also not the right long term trend as ultimately it still really needs to grow a lot. Monthly active users is just below 50K. In my view this will have to 10x for the engagement in smaller communities to pick up. It may take years, or it may never happen. A lot of that will depend on attracting more mainstream users.

That is for conservatives only though. The judges on the ICC who have been debanked for ruling against Netanyahu can pound sand.

Called it

Wall Street demands endless growth.

Exactly… there are a ton of older people falling for scams everyday. It’s all over the news. They manipulate people by pretending to be a love interest or a family member.

I kind of wish they hadn’t. Fully blocking these apps would’ve really lit a fire in the open source world to create a serious alternative. Now people will just put up with the 1 day wait and carry on.

Claude writes better code than most humans and a lot faster

There is a certain orthodoxy that is generally accepted. If you go against it you’ll get downvoted into oblivion. On the other hand, there are certain viewpoints that I find appalling and I also downvote.

I also hold some opinions the consensus of Lemmy doesn’t like and I don’t let Lemmy discourage me from sharing them when I feel it is the truth, my understanding of the truth. I accept the downvotes. You gotta be willing to stand up to the mob if you’re going to change minds. And, accept that you won’t change minds. But, you have to be there telling people what you think.

As a man, I also want to ride with a woman driver, for my safety.

The UK is a dystopian shithole. They took 1984 and used it as an instruction manual.

I don’t want to run my own instance. That requires time and money.

lemmy.zip has so far been chill. Lemmy world is in practice run by a small group of overbearing mods that remove posts they personally don’t like as opposed to just letting the community decide, even when no community rules have been broken. They also defederate and block other instances aggressively. I don’t like my instance to censor things I want access to.

I like Touch ID better. I wish iPhones still had Touch ID.