That is absolutely going to happen. I suspect there will be a ton of Apollo and other 3rd party app logos too.

Linux distros are still an operating system.

Welcome to all you new folks! Water is great!

I would say, it’s less sad and more liberating to be honest with you. I’ll certainly continue to use Reddit in the long term, but it will be much more in frequently than it was in the past. Moving forward I think this is going to be the primary place where I spend my time. It’ll be cool to see it grow from what it was just a month ago.

What is TIHI? Thanks I Hate It? That is all that comes to mind.

Right. I’m loving this. It is a huge breath of fresh air. Obviously the people hosting Lemmy.world have to pay for this though. If they put out a subscription that was minimal in cost I would pony up even now with the jank and all. This place is worth investing my time and energy into I feel.

I had an R-Zone when I was younger. It was an absolute piece of shit. My mom found it at a garage sale. We had a racing game that I remember and then I remember like some K-mart ass style fighting game too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R-Zone

Why do you feel LinkedIn is creepy? Just curious. Out of all the social media presence I currently have LinkedIn seems to me like the only one that is actually benefiting me. I post very little on there unless I am promoting a professional achievement.

That is exactly what’s happening to me too. It seems to be random. But I’ve started paying closer attention as I navigate around so I’m hoping to maybe identify any consistency and what would be causing it so I can report it.

I was having that same issue.

Well, it’s not a huge mystery or anything…people love the communities they build up. You feel a sense of loyalty to the people and to the idea behind the community.

Dude. Its about power and control. It has little to do with any sense of loyalty. I’m sure there are a few that have some measure of loyalty, but very few mods are doing it because they just love the topic they moderate. They’re doing it because it gives them power and control and they love that. Absolutely no one can convince me otherwise.

It’s nice that they still have hope and still love their community enough to want to attempt to seek some sort of resolution, but imo reddit the company is never going to budge now.

They never were. They have the numbers. They knew there was money to be made by killing off 3rd party apps. They knew they would piss people off. Really all they care about are the folks that subscribe to Reddit and/or use the native app. They view everyone else as a parasite. They made the calculation that killing 3rd party apps would have a small enough impact that it was worth it in the long run. That is all they wanted. They probably didn’t count on the level of outrage they would create. They surely expected some, but definitely not this. They are in it for the long haul though. They will just wait people out to see what the damage actually is and then one day in a month or two they will talk about how minimal the impact was and how they saw very little loss of readership.

I am pretty open about my life and profession online. If someone were to dig into me they would become bored pretty fast.

No need to virtue signal, friends. There’s no stage. ;)

I have seen very little of that here to be truthful. There are always people that live online and only formulate their opinions on what they see online or on social media. But thus far Lemmy has not had many people either left or right politically that have been shoving anything down others throats. It has been chill and I hope it stays that way for a long while.

If you wan to become a streamer just answer one question. Are you content streaming to absolutely no one and on a good day you might have 3-5 people pop in. Your best day you may see 15-20 people. If you are comfortable with that then go for it.

The reality is that streaming requires charisma which most people do not have. It requires immense drive which most people lack. It requires long term dedication that most are unwilling to give. It requires luck which you have no control over and more than anything it requires you to be chronically online which is absolutely terrible for the vast majority of people.

Yeah there are a lot of communities out there where there is just a bot that appears to be mirroring what is posted on the subreddit it mirrors. There are a ton of posts like that I have seen.

Mods already are carefully picked and yet slips happen often, if they rush a replacement (which they will have to do if they force new mods) then moderation issues will be a big issue on reddit Reddit admins vet mods? I just assumed it was always a boys club of who knows and likes who in the modding community.

It is not very good. I’ve used Bard, BingAi and ChatGPT to write VBA code. I can paste the same prompt into all three. ChatGPT usually gets it right. Bard rarely does without really breaking it down and explaining what I want like I am explaining to a 5 year old.

I just nuked everything. I’ll still use Reddit just far less frequently. I took my most popular comments and if they were applicable I made them posts on Lemmy or Tildes.

I cannot recall which phone it was, but going to sports bars in college and changing the channel on the TV to the games I wanted to watch was so cool. Probably pissed a whole lotta people off, but I was a young college shithead and didn’t really register that at the time.

I started using workspaces in the last year or two because I game and do video editing on the same machine. It is nice to have things separated a bid.