I find it interesting that the guys who wrote the initial side-scrolling code had no idea how revolutionary it was
I find it interesting that the guys who wrote the initial side-scrolling code had no idea how revolutionary it was
Lol ok true, I meant more of a maneuvering at speed. Even then, thinking about it my analogy is terrible :/
I imagine that it’s supposed to be flown and is only temporarily used on the ground. Same way airplanes don’t have a higher ground speed
Boost is like retweeting something, you can have followers in the fediverse. Boosting makes something more visible to everyone, so you upvote/downvote things you personally like/dislike and boost things you think your followers/everyone would like
Think of this place as a cross between email, Twitter and reddit. All communities can interact with each other and are independent
Yeah bot posts have been growing steadily for years but I always assumed the mods were in on it
IIRC they started trying right when IPOs were hot and couldn’t finalize the backing before the bubble popped
Everyone else got a sweet IPO cash out during covid, now he wants his millions too
Big companies are driven by profit and power. I don’t expect us to keep them out but it would be nice to prevent them from becoming the default, or else we’ll just repeat the same thing over again
Multiple smaller communities connected together is the best strategy for a free internet IMO
The casual user is not the informed user
Do no evil
What a joke
It’s definitely a slow bleed, but most people aren’t content creators or visionaries. They will migrate with time, we just need the tools here and things will grow.
I have no doubt that federation will lead to the best network of positive forums
Oh, I misunderstood then. It sounded to me like they were saying lemmy was more vulnerable
How is that different than what’s currently on reddit? Unless you are talking about 5 years ago, modern reddit is filled with manipulated conversations
Is it any wonder? The money will always try to influence politics and the Supreme Court is the smallest number of individuals with power besides the president. Get a few on your side and so is the law
I don’t think the bots have much creativity
Spez is just a scapegoat for corporate suits wanting to profit off every little internet community they can while selling data and allowing shadow entities to manipulate conversations.
That can still happen here but it will be harder. Federation should be the future
Naw we jumped ship before it sank, this place will only grow and it’s a better direction.
Even if they reversed course I wouldn’t go back
Yep they’re shitty people that are shitty businessmen with no sense. Surprisingly, they think they’re geniuses and entrepreneurs
“But at the very least, if a server goes down, it should not be catastrophic to you.” Your social world shouldn’t live inside an app, she says, or depend on a company staying solvent. It should, and could, be much bigger than that.
Exactly
In the last 7 years they’ve been pretty one sided on the political propaganda spectrum