You’re a goddamn life saver

Well now I HAD to read the thread

What an absolute weirdo.

They are suddenly everywhere in Australia, I can tell you that much.

I don’t even bother typing them because I like having eslint do it for me.

You need to make the worst product that you’re still able to sell, and then make sure you sell it to the same people multiple times.

This is a lovely summary of modern capitalism. The carnival barkers would have you still believe that excellence rises to the top, but it doesn’t. What wins is the appearance of excellence, as a facade for the least effort possible, like you said.

Share markets created this perverse incentive that rewards businesses for appearing successful even if they produce fuck all. I’m thinking of Jack Welch era GE or today’s preeminent carbon credit trading firm, Tesla Motors.

It reminds me of the feedback loop engulfing the major LLMs as they consume more and more of their own content and start outputting lower and lower quality: the original goal of rewarding the best is long lost, replaced by making line go up at all costs.

My home feed is extra on the nose today.

Honestly? And I promise I’m not being sarcastic: Reddit and Twitter are still your home. But the same goes for centre-left liberals. It’s not that you’re conservative, it’s that you’re moderate.

Many of the recent arrivals to the fediverse (myself included) are here because we’re fleeing the corporate internet. We feel strongly enough about it that we’ve thrown all our toys out of the pram, abandoning huge platforms to try build this new space. This kind of behaviour isn’t exactly “centrist”.

So this nascent lemmyverse has a wiiiiide breadth of political views but not as much in the middle because those folks are all still on the old platforms. Over here we have Nazis, hexbear and shitposts. And porn. It’s still early days.

Back in the day (ow my back) carriers let you control how calls are diverted by dialling one of those * 123*12345# type numbers.

Fuck yeah, good bot.

No, not servers (yet).

Edit: I had a closer check and I don’t think the Lemmy protocol itself currently allows you as a user to block an entire instance? Someone smarter than me please correct me if I’m wrong.

It is very very important to log in to your local Play Store and mark all the reviews you consider helpful…

c/bestof

Cos you go brrrrrrrrrrrr

Good news! It’s only going to get worse and worse.

How fucking shitty. It just proves that everything spez said about negotiating with developers in good faith was bullshit.

Oh please please please. And the companion suicide and kamikaze subs too. All absolute gems.

I’m so fucking happy. I went looking for an equivalent Lemmy community only a couple of days ago and there wasn’t really anything. But now here are the OGs!

+1 for Voyager. It’s had like 6 releases since I installed it, sometimes multiple on the same day. It’s the most polished and complete interface I’ve found on Android and it installs absolutely everywhere on every system because PWA.

Alas, lemmy.world was hacked a few hours ago and they’re still struggling to undo the damage. It’s not you!