On Friday, the Fifth Circuit handed down its latest decision in Doe v. Mckesson, the case at the heart of this crusade against the First Amendment. Under the Fifth Circuit’s latest approach, a protest organizer who commits even a minor legal violation — in this case the court faulted Mckesson for leading a protest “in...
Aol’s chat rooms and message boards had the same community/pioneering feel, but they were hitched to a company whose main business was Internet connectivity and looked poised to dominate the Internet age. So Aol monetized and the monitors revolted. Aol finally ended its volunteer program in 2005 and settled the lawsuit in 2010...
I am predicting that before the company goes bankrupt, Reddit will remove downvotes in an effort to prevent users from expressing negative sentiment. This happened a few years ago on YouTube after YouTube Rewind became the world's most disliked video, several years in a row. This was embarrassing for the company because it...
Will something be done about moderators owning 50+ magazines/communities and counting? Already seeing power mods migrate from Reddit trying to hoard as many communities as possible.
well... people are going to be attracted to the most active community with the most subscribers. That's of ten the first to get established. Due to federation, that's persistent on all instances. So, sure, I can just create another version of Y community on B instance if it's being squatted on X community on A instance, but that doesn't mean it'll gain any traction.
r/mildlyinteresting, interestingasfuck, self, tihi, shittylifeprotips got their entire mod team nuked. More will probably follow today. You can request an unmoderated sub in r/redditrequest....
what a sad, cynical take as we sit here, enjoying an explosion of popularity in a new FOSS platform and a suite of applications-- as I, myself, participate in a team of devs creating a new FOSS app for Lemmy, to think the FOSS movement is over just because corporations happen to take advantage of it.
Don’t like your FOSS project being used for profit? Change your licensing scheme. but bemoaning that the philosophy, the religion of FOSS is somehow sullied by a departure from some purist vision once held is a conceit. It never belonged to you, nor, really, to anyone. That’s the point. That’s what we all signed up for. And it’s naive to think it might not ever be used in a way to which we might object. When we let our code out into the wild for anyone to use and re-use, that’s the risk we all take.
You might think that’s easy for me to say, what, with my Lemmy app that can’t be used to kill people in far-off places, and while that’s true, just as easily, someone could come along, fork our project, and make a far superior version and shut my project down overnight.
My point is that this isn’t a flaw with FOSS or even the FOSS community, it’s a societal flaw called capitalism. and, rather than distressing over who abides by some abstract philosophy of how FOSS should be used, we should focus our energies on combating the cause of the problem, not its symptoms-- and certainly not each other.
17 years. SEVENTEEN YEARS I spent on Reddit, through thick and thin. Gamergate, Ellen Pao, AMA collapse, the whole shebang. I never would have gotten through it if it weren't for Alien Blue and Apollo. But this shit? here? and now they're just nuking entire mod teams en masse? I left 19 days ago, and you know what I did? I joined a team developing an iOS app for Lemmy.
Nero can strum his lute and watch as Rome burns. I don't care, for I have better things to do and better places to be. I have found my new home.
what's bad form is to claim second-hand victimhood for someone who persistently claims falsehoods as truths without the capacity for accepting criticism while acting as if such a thing is a personal attack. twisting yourself into knots to make me out to be some sort of bad guy is equally preposterous.
how much time are you going to waste on this white-knight crusade to virtue signal when it's obvious that you'll never convince me of your point of view? frankly, I see your efforts and nothing more than puerile attempt to stroke your own ego.
curious, as they kept using the word "crime." do you often see whatever you want to when it befits your agenda? I'm not to blame when others can't manage to say what they mean.
The U.K. moves to use frozen Russian assets to help Ukraine rebuild. (www.nytimes.com)
OC I am locked in a tiny vessel with limited oxygen supply, how do I maximize my survival time?
I am stuck in a tiny vessel. Oxygen supply is running low....
Trump’s Fox News Interview Exposed His Real Weakness (nymag.com)
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The Fifth Circuit comes for the First Amendment right to protest (www.vox.com)
On Friday, the Fifth Circuit handed down its latest decision in Doe v. Mckesson, the case at the heart of this crusade against the First Amendment. Under the Fifth Circuit’s latest approach, a protest organizer who commits even a minor legal violation — in this case the court faulted Mckesson for leading a protest “in...
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Call the Priest (lemmy.world)
Is Reddit Setting Themselves Up for Disaster? The AOL Chat Room Monitor Revolt (priceonomics.com)
Aol’s chat rooms and message boards had the same community/pioneering feel, but they were hitched to a company whose main business was Internet connectivity and looked poised to dominate the Internet age. So Aol monetized and the monitors revolted. Aol finally ended its volunteer program in 2005 and settled the lawsuit in 2010...
I love Turkey Cheese (sh.itjust.works)
Prediction: Reddit will someday remove the downvote from all posts.
I am predicting that before the company goes bankrupt, Reddit will remove downvotes in an effort to prevent users from expressing negative sentiment. This happened a few years ago on YouTube after YouTube Rewind became the world's most disliked video, several years in a row. This was embarrassing for the company because it...
📢Entire mod team on r/mildlyinteresting removed and locked out of their accounts after changing their rules upon community's request. (They're also switching subs BACK to SFW) (kbin.social)
If you still have a reddit account: Now is your chance to become moderator of big subs with millions of subscribers
r/mildlyinteresting, interestingasfuck, self, tihi, shittylifeprotips got their entire mod team nuked. More will probably follow today. You can request an unmoderated sub in r/redditrequest....
Vanderbilt turns over transgender patient records to state AG for investigation (thehill.com)
Drones run linux: the free software movement isn't enough (j3s.sh)
📢Entire mod team on r/mildlyinteresting removed and locked out of their accounts after changing their rules upon community's request. (media.kbin.social)
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/362700...
Posts must be about Fallout New Vegas. Memes from inferior Fallout Games will be flaired as such and will be shunned.
https://lemmy.world/c/fnv...
As Reddit Drama Continues, ActivityPub Growth Continues to Skyrocket (www.freezenet.ca)
cross-posted from: https://kbin.social/m/tech/t/60668...
Apple could force a 111-year-old fruit company to change its apple logo (www.androidauthority.com)
Apple wants to claim depictions of actual apples.
Reddit is dead (lemmy.ml)