I used to play extreme music some 15 years ago and by God 80% of our humour was variations of calling each other f*gs. It’s quite sad cause we didn’t have an ounce of préjudice in us we were just wankers with dead end jobs and shit guitars. We met up with the boys a couple months ago and reminisced there was a lot of cringing…

Did you go to therapy with hunter Thompson by any chance?

“Damn, I thought mental illness was in the knees”

Also digg peaked at maybe 8 million users which is a much more manageable migration.

I love that because it’s such a cautionary tale about bad leadership. He was toxic towards Twitter for years then bought them and doubled down on shitting on them and calling them incompetent… Of course they hate his guts and maliciously comply now.

It’s the time between masters that is interesting and unpredictable and just fun

I think it might be the opposite. If extreme content is kind of “default” when the algorithm doesn’t know what to give you, them starving it off history might push it into that default more often. I have a very used YouTube account with a metric ton of history and honestly I very rarely see that kind of content. (From Europe though so it might be different)

Based and you-can’t-propagandize-with-a-mouthful-of -broken-teeth pilled

Idk it’s pretty common. Where i live, most people above 35 have gotten at least once in a fight with skinheads, and some did it every weekend for the giggles.

Exactly. I paid 15 bucks 12 years ago and got god knows how many thousands of hours out of it

I think the immune system is federation itself. Everything is in the open, users have the control, how do you develop a competitive advantage in that context? I think it’s the end of “winner takes all”.

The whole point of open protocols is that anyone can use it. Just block any instance you don’t like and you’re good!

Oh man happy to help! And good luck on your game project, drop us a link sometime!

Hey man don’t overthink it. You need a meta product for work or for a project, just use it professionally. You need to think about your own success and go where your audience is.

Now on your personal time if you don’t want the toxicity of those places come to the fediverse and let’s have a nice chat.

I think the goal of the fediverse is not to eat the world but on the contrary to give us alternatives so we can compartmentalize our internet life.

Yes! Very much this. Imagine if lemmy would grow to just a few million users. That’s the size of Digg when the migration to Reddit happened! Not everything needs to have a billion users and there’s more engagement in small communities anyway.

Out of the hundreds of millions of redditors i’m sure some people will pick up the slack of content creation and moderation. Now will they do a good enough job ? I don’t know, i bet spez is betting they will, but only time will tell.

Y’all need to stop retelling the Digg fable to each other lmao. It happened 15 years ago in a totally different landscape and there were maybe 2M users on Digg most of whom were power users. You think the normies from /r/pics or /r/AITA are gonna evacuate from reddit ?

Plus they have this unique position of being able to serve niche ads right in the place where that niche happens. You don’t really need to be a genius to make that work, even if you have shit algorithms, the targetting is done for free by just selecting the right subreddits. It is one of the rare places where actually useful advertising could happen, that’s a market that’s currently being served by nobody.

Yeah you’re right that it wouldn’t be immediately noticeable but just because a few thousands of us jumped to Lemmy doesn’t mean there is any significant change on reddit. I checked on my most active communities and all the usual suspects are there, posting and commenting as usual. The amount of people that left reddit are probably a fraction of a percent.

This is not public information, you won’t know anything about that until the next quarterly reports. That being said if you go to the front page right now it seems pretty much like business as usual.