I don’t have access to Twitter’s balance sheet, but I’d wager a guess that they’re on financial life support in the short term, and they’ve got a stage 4 cancer diagnosis in the long term.

The only thing Twitter has going for them over a competitor like Mastodon or Threads, is their name. And Musk has made sure their name is covered in shit and mud.

Twitter was doomed before Musk bought them, and they’re super doomed now.

You need to clear your cookies for Lemmy.world

It’s not that they’re obsessive over social media, they’re just used to being able to simply look up general information about people online through social media sites. And if you don’t present anything for them to find, it often encourages further digging.

But you do you, I’m not trying to change your mind.

Employers and romantic partners can be especially put off if they can’t find any trace of you online. And if they really care, they’ll dig harder to find that time where you declared bankruptcy, or you got arrested for public intoxication, or where someone deep in your past said something negative about you, and that’s all that will stick in your mind when they think of you.

For me personally, having a simple, but relatively barren social media presence is worth it to avoid the persistent diggers, who will find something about you if they don’t see anything public.

And besides, everything about most of us is already stored in Apple or Google’s datacenters. There’s no hiding from the deeply intrusive data collection those companies do. So having some simple information out in the open is likely better for privacy in some ways.

If you disagree with my take, that’s fine, I just wanted to give another perspective.

Which would be pretty important if we want to keep monetization as unobtrusive as possible on Lemmy.

That said, I do think we need to figure out image hosting at some point.

u/AngryBeaverBeaver : OP, why do you even bother posting here when 90% of replies are bots?

OP : I’m sorry, but as an AI language model…

Could you even tell?

After all, we are in the era of advanced LLMs.

Refusing to hire a babysitter with a history of sexual abuse isn’t “punishment for pre-crime”. It’s just being smart and avoiding extreme risk to your children.

In the same vein, we all know how Meta/Facebook will behave, we know they’re going to do everything they can to exert total control over everything they touch. It’s practically a legal requirement for them to extract maximum value from the very air we breath.

So giving them the benefit of the doubt is nothing less than reckless. It’s like trusting a crack addict with your wallet.

I’m all for improving the user experience here on Lemmy.

But what I find not so appealing, is targeting mass adoption in a way that dumbs down the community we’re building here.

As long as we just make Lemmy a great place to be, the right kind of people will keep joining.

Meta knows exactly what to do to bring a billion new users to a new social media site, and all you have to do is look at Threads to see the kind of community they are cultivating.

Lemmy does not, and never will, have the moderation power to contend with that many bad actors. I’m perfectly fine with Lemmy having a tiny learning curve to keep out the dregs.

I really like that idea.

It would absolutely demolish the risk of a community turning into a meme sub, or one of subs where people just post pictures of their Raspberry Pi in some retail case over and over again.

And as long as pictures are disallowed on the main post, people could still be free to post links to guides or other important content that contains pictures.

It would be nice to interact with my own family and friends

That’s a straight no from me.

We can already interact with our friends and family anywhere we choose, but Lemmy is one of the only general discussion areas left on the internet that isn’t full of the stupidest people on the planet.

Bringing our family here will just result in real identities taking over and limiting discussion to what’s acceptable in all our little social bubbles.

That’s definitely the smart way to buy laptops.

I just wanted to remind people that Framework’s pricing is competitive in the segment they are targeting.

Personally I’m with you, buying a 1-2 year old premium machine can save up to 75% off the new retail price, while still getting most of the latest features.

Absolutely, and the actions that “go against the sustainability and self-interest of the fediverse” will need to be analyzed and codified into fediverse “law.”

If we make specific and firm rules about what is disallowed on an instance, it makes enforcing those rules simple.

It detects if you’re idle and refreshes the page?

That’s some horrible attention hacking bullshit.

I’m 100% going to find another instance if I see any content from that nightmare. I’m not on Twitter, or Facebook, for a reason.

I believe the only instances that should be defederated are corporate, self-harm, profanely illegal, and political extremist instances.

Anything further than that and the whole network is going to devolve into a series of micro echo chambers.

Or maybe it won’t, maybe the vast and free instances will flourish while the restrictive instances die out.

Either way, trying to control a community based on wishy washy ideology is not a good look.

I think in these early days we’ll see a lot of power drunk admins who are too eager to push the button, just because they can.

Maybe if you spec them out.

But it’s like $1000 for the midrange model with the latest hardware, which is in line with the competition.

And the first upgrade you do will end up saving money, since you won’t have to replace the whole laptop.

You make a good point.

Under the Castle Doctrine laws in my state, if Zuckerberg walked into my house without being invited then I could start blastin.

I’ll post the legalese mumbo jumbo on my door to keep him out, like he’s a vampire.

I don’t think anyone would even notice next to the garbage that’s already served by default on Reddit.

Not OP, but the ability to transfer my subscriptions to another instance without headache would be enough.

That’s the only major pain point in switching instances.

Binary voting isn’t a perfect system, but so far it’s proven to work well enough.

If a better mechanism proves itself in the future I imagine Lemmy will adapt to it over time.