Buelldozer

rampant ads, algorithms tuned for maximum retention and engagement

Fair, I hadn’t considered those specific issues and I agree that they are specific to commercialization.

Today I Learned…

:::shrug:::

Now they’re here.

I started with BBSs back in the late '80s, moved to the Internet in the early 90s, then the WWW in the mid-late 90s, and was doing Admin / Mod work on forums by the year 2000. So believe me when I tell you those “those people” have always been online. ALWAYS. Those users are not a Reddit creation and I know because I was encountering them for decades before Reddit existed.

Hop on the wayback machine and cruise back to the earliest ./ posts if you want a taste.

The larger that Lemmy gets the more of “those people”, however you define that group, will show up here and increasingly they will not be Reddit Refugees.

reddit is still great

My Reddit account is 18 years old and I can tell you that Reddit hasn’t been “great” since 2013; the year of Drumpf vs HIllDawg for US President. Heck I still have over 2 years of “Reddit Premium” from the zillions of tokens I got back when they gave those away.

I was never ejected, still haven’t been, and I moderated some noteable subs. The API debacle and the shutdown of unofficial apps was my last straw. I removed myself from all the mod teams I was on and bailed over to Lemmy.

Reddit still has some cool communities but as a platform it’s best days are long gone. At this point its coasting on inertia just like Facebook.

Fedi Classic.

I’ve been here for over 3 years and I have some questions about “Fedi Classic”. You are commenting into an instance (lemmy.world) that has a defederation list multiple pages long and some of the entries on it are undeniably “OG”.

So in this “Fedi Classic” will you be bringing back such classics as ExplodingHeads or FedditMoe? What about commonly blocked instances like ML and HexBear?

Lemmy is already struggling with many of the same issues as Reddit; poor and / or objectionable moderation or moderators, bots and bot activity, politically motivated disinformation, groupthink, brigading, and censorship.

Scale makes the problems more noticeable because it makes them happen more frequently but it doesn’t create the problems. It’s the same with Commercialization, it’s doesn’t create those problems it simply highlights them.

Internet search on “Ghislaine Maxwell Reddit moderator”

3 Mile Island was an overblown media sensation. Chernobyl was a poorly designed and poorly maintained facility doing a live stress controlled by complete morons that literally could not have happened in the next generation reactor design. Fukushima took a literal force of nature to cause an issue and even then it was originally designed to handle it but cost cutting during construction moved the backup power source too close to the water.

Meanwhile the current generation reactors, even discounting SMR, are designed to make those failure modes physically impossible. The ultra-modern SMR designs are already producing commercial power in China with North America following suit in the next 36 months or so.

That’s just the house. Now add costs for the land, utility build out, building a road and driveway, plus all the construction permitting and licensing. Easily doubles if not triples the price.

Your lemmy instance is hosted in a data center you twat. (Hetzner)

The irony level of you pissing and moaning about non-ai data centers WHILE USING ONE is off the chart.

Microsoft predicted this some time ago which is why they have begun pushing a Hybrid Model where tasks are run locally first and only going to the cloud for heavy lift.

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Cars. The answer is cars.

Nuclear has been slow, for a variety of reasons, but that is about to change.

I’m confused, are you in China or the United States? Your comment history strongly alludes to both, depending on what you’re saying.

This is for business accounts.