Ugh. The idea that there are two forums with the same name on different websites focused on similar topics isn’t a “community separation problem”. The “community” is not separated. There are just separate communities discussing similar things.

Those communities are all on different websites. Different websites, with different user-bases, and different governing rules. They are not the same space, in any way, shape, or form, and you should not imagine them to be.

There’s no need to want them to be, either. Content of interest to one will likely be of interest to the others, and will find its way to them. Content that is only of interest to one but not the others does not need to be seen by all.

Let go of the FOMO. It’s not serving you.

They’ve been hiding behind that excuse for a decade now. How far do they get to take it? How far do they get to go before we’re “allowed” to tell them to eat shit?

I like Waterfox. I started using it for the JXL support. But it’s significantly more memory-leaky than the current version of Firefox, and small FOSS teams seem to think the standard amount of RAM sold in laptops today is comically low and believe we’re all hauling 64+ GB or something.

Never have, never will.

So, here’s the funny thing about “never will”. It’s not a promise you can go back on. “Never will” means “forever won’t”.

Changing that language is a breech of trust. Getting all “nuanced” and weasel-wordy about it doesn’t change that.

Folks should start looking into whether the previous promise is legally binding in any way, and start preparing for a class action suit if it is. Because Mozilla’s better dead than it is as zombie smoke screen for this horse shit.

Do you remember forum culture? Where, if you joined a forum and were a giant pain in the ass, they kicked you out?

Large, monolithic social media sites like Facebook and Reddit got away from some of that, just because they’re too big to police. But the fediverse isn’t. Not yet, anyway. Bad neighbours are defederated from, and bad actors are banned.

Don’t be a giant pain in the ass if you don’t want to be shown the door. Or go back to spaces that are too big to GAF about you.

I don’t know where gamers’ hard-on for Valve comes from. They’re a monopolist software developer whose biggest product is a middle-man DRM platform masquerading as a game library utility. Their whole schtick is increasing the cost of your games, and limiting your right to access those games how, when, and where you want. Yet somehow, they’re the darling of the gaming scene.

It’s fucking bizarre.

I can’t wait until someone shuts this prick up.

Because it abandoned the idea of the site admins being responsible for moderation, in the name of expanding to unmanagable size.

On Reddit and Facebook, groups do not have a common moderation team, so they lack the right to dump a post in someone else’s group.

Hah!

Companies tried to make this a thing 20 years ago, and people just dropped the middle-men like hot potatoes. Bitly thinks it’ll be different this time because people have become used to using their service, but all of the pressures that had people using link shorteners in the first place have already fallen by the wayside.

This probably isn’t going to end well for them.

They gots them at the bulk barn here. And a tub of the candies.

I bought a fistfull to use as D&D monster tokens last week

It’s not about compiling, it’s about testing and support. Each officially supported version needs to be tested - which means having yet another set of test systems sitting around - and supported by the support team. And not only is Linux a splintered market in its own right, making testing and support a significant operation, but there isn’t the same kind of single-point OS support that you get from Microsoft and Apple.

Downvotes are already a questionable design choice, which encourage passive-aggressive drive-by behaviour rather than engaging with and countering challenging ideas. They’re kind of a dark feature, which give the user a sense of participation, or worse, the sense of being a cop, while contributing nothing.

They are catharsis without praxis, and they almost certainly contribute to online toxicity.

Actually giving them forum or site moderation power is… Well, it sure is doubling down on that feeling like a cop thing.

And what are all cops?

Holy shit, it’s going gold!

Sorry, the best we can do is always showing you subtitles by default, and not letting you permanently change that.

Business people will do almost anything to eliminate wages

Numbers may rebound, but users having kicked the tires on other options means they’re less tightly bound than they were before. It’s up to us to create a welcoming and interesting environment in the spaces that they’ve looked at to get them to shift their usage.

Win a trade war, then wait for his mind to drift to fanboying for dictators for life, just like last time.

No. The website you’re using doesn’t share them, and possibly doesn’t even track them. They don’t support downvotes, full stop.

There’s no Platonic “Lemmy” for you to see or access. There’s 1000 different Lemmys, as each Lemmy-based website on the network is it’s own thing, hosting both local content and remote content that is syndicated to it. You can only see what’s hosted and surfaced on the website you’re using.

You may as well be asking if there’s any other way of seeing Instagram posts on Twitter.

And you think Mark Cuban is funding what, exactly? A member’s co-op?