Reddit’s decision about 3rd party apps and API changes actually made business sense. Not only was their content being pilfered on Reddit’s expense, but a decent portion of their user base were using 3rd party apps that didn’t collect as much data nor serve Reddit ads like the official app. At the expense of losing a decent portion of their community, moderators, and any goodwill their userbase had towards them, Reddit now has all their mobile users on a single, add ridden app that they own and can collect as much data as they want going forward as well as ensures that they get paid for AI API usage

The best reply to “God made you a man, be a man, he doesn’t make mistakes” is “God made you nearsighted, take off those glasses, he doesn’t make mistakes”

Try Linux in a virtual machine or on a live USB for a few days to ease into it. There’s plenty of beginner friendly distros to choose from that don’t require using the terminal. You could even try dual booting Linux and Windows if you decide to make the jump. I’m not going to lie and say that Linux is pure smooth sailing compared to Windows, but I can say that as a former Windows user who was terrified of Linux, after using Debian for a few days I’ve never booted into Windows on my main PC again

They’ve beefed with a few other instances they tried federating with too such as Lemmy.ee and lemmy.blahaj.zone. Their user base tends to be a bit more abrasive than most Lemmy instances, making federation controversial even among similarly minded instances such as lemmy.blahaj.zone

Barely anyone uses Linux, and among those who do, distros vary wildly enough between each other to the point of breaking viruses that it’s just not worth the effort to make viruses for them compared to Windows or Mac

NATO expansionism on the lunar surface required a special landing operation to contain

Noise cancelling headphones don’t work against babies. They are designed for cancelling ambient sound by playing frequencies to cancel out the noise, but can’t predict sudden noises like children crying very well. Earplugs or earbuds do a better job at drowning those out by plugging your ears from outside noises

They’re volunteers running the instance personally, not a corporation with a legal team who can advise them how to best handle piracy related communities without being sued. Especially since their instance has to cache content from instances they federate with, it’s hard to blame them for being overly cautious with piracy communities on instances out of their control to avoid being sued by litigation happy media corporations

Ecosia is pretty good, they plant trees with the money they get from your searches

Yep, it’s literally just another Reddit. The main benefit is that it’s decentralized so it’s not under the control of a single corporation, but yeah, it’s mainly ex redditors on a service designed to be an alternative to Reddit

Ionic just got that Ancient Greek vibe that goes really hard. I want to go smash the Persians with my buddy Alexander when I see it

It created a mass exodus of users, especially active ones who post content, who have founded communities elsewhere. Lemmy exists, and for a lot of users Lemmy has completely replaced their reddit addiction. Though subreddits reopen, the quality of content has gotten significantly worse, and for users fed up with Reddit, they now have a viable alternative to go to

Y’all are champs for suddenly taking on thousands of users at your own expense on what was meant to be a throwaway instance. It went from a small private server to hosting one of the most active communities on Lemmy in a short time, and you and your team of volunteer tech sorceresses have been doing the best you can to keep lemmy.blahaj.zone alive as it grows

Be friend of Blåhaj

Are they trying to sell me on capitalism? Because they’re doing a great job if so

You ever drive through Disney World property? They have hundreds of thousands of people on the property every single day, yet there’s hardly ever any traffic on the property itself. They achieve this through free and robust public transportation that takes people between all of the hotels and the parks while penalizing drivers who don’t want to take it with large parking fees. Especially with buses taking people between the airport and Disney property, there’s hardly a reason for most people to rent a car. As a result, despite heavy traffic in the area surrounding Disney World, they’ve effectively beat traffic on the property itself, but clearly traffic is unbeatable with public transportation because the billionaire who owns a car company says it doesn’t work

They’re going to start paying posters for highly awarded posts and comments, with people who receive the most getting a better rate. Reddit content bots are going to be profitable, and the entire site is going to be repost bots and AI generated content garbage soon enough

“I ignore infant mortality rates in the poorest states” “wow someone who shares my views”

Currently, very little of the cost of goods is actually being invested back into America; offshore production funnels money to other countries and price gouging by the rich funnels money into their own pockets. While the cost of goods may go up, that money is being spent paying for domestic labor and domestic production infrastructure, creating more jobs domestically. The more jobs that are available, the more valuable labor in America becomes, which we are seeing today in the post pandemic era as many businesses are forced to raise wages beyond minimum wage to hire employees