Glad this has actually led to criminal charges, and I'm actually confident that the Romanian authorities have been following due process and not preparing to throw him through a kangaroo court because he openly bragged about how corrupt their nation is.
Romania is one of the more conservative Eastern European states, and if they're doing a sex trafficking investigation into the Tate Brothers, then you know this isn't some 'woke conspiracy' to depose them, like many of their followers claim.
Imagine the absolute shock if Andrew Tate was released without charge. Would you really want to be the person who vindicates that bloomy rind dick cheese?
I remember the days when everybody flocked to Voat in the midst of the Ellen Pao revolt, and then the site crumpled under its own freaking weight. It's refreshing by comparison to see 360k users flock to Lemmy when the platform struggled to even break over a thousand just three weeks ago.
Was wondering why the site had been performing unusually well today. Part of me was worried that everybody got fed up of the lag, abandoned ship and went back to Reddit.
Wow, they really want to make top lane even less relevant than it already is.
After the teleport changes ruined the role and the assassin nerfs shifted the meta from midlaners/junglers towards ADC dominance, nerfing meta top laners may be the dumbest thing they've done yet.
Lemmy has a lot of obstacles that will prevent it from truly going mainstream:
The community browser is complete dog shit for discovering content on different instances, and trying to view another instance's content from your own community is just needlessly complex. Discoverability is still a lot better than Mastodon though, where you'd look at all post and see nothing but hentai reposting bots regurgitating stuff that isn't even allowed on NSFWLemmy...
Due to the nature of federation, you also run the risk of committing to an instance only for them to defederate entirely, or disassociate from content you want to see but they don't agree with. Beehaw is a very good example of this.
As there's no option (yet) to migrate to a different instance, and Lemmy is a FOSS project that cannot be monetized in the same way as a traditional social media site, what happens when instances start shutting down due to being unable to keep up with server hosting costs?
I cannot speak for the iOS option available, but Jerboa is barebones. For example, you can't even tap on a post/comment reply in your inbox to go to that comment's permalink and view the context. This is incredibly basic functionality for any social news aggregator. Even with the fediverse in general surpassing 150,000 users, I don't see Lemmy getting the same level of third-party app support as Reddit had.
Coding is hard though, especially when you go past the basic tutorial stuff (Hello World, if statements, for/while loops, libraries, etc.) Actual computer science and understanding all the technical and mathematical aspects of computing is orders of magnitude harder than writing some C# or Javascript code.
Last time I actually tried to make an effort to learn how to code was back in the days when /r/CarlHProgramming was still active, long before Carl Herold was arrested on heinous child sex crimes.
I'm surprised all the protesting moderators haven't just gone on strike, disabled Automoderator, relaxed all of their rules, unbanned every user, then just said "we're not enforcing the rules anymore, go fucking nuts."
Like a more extreme version of what happened with /r/worldpolitics.
It's a funny protest, but it kinda goes against the spirit of the API boycott.
I'll give it a week before Reddit goes back to normal. Spez is probably going to do some overtime and start forcefully deposing moderators.
And as we saw with /r/worldnews, /r/leagueoflegends and pretty much any other subreddit that refused to even acknowledge the initial blackout, there are power users that are more than willing to lick Spez's boots.
With /r/starcraft being one of the hundreds of subreddits going private indefinitely, I thought that I'd take the wheel and create a community for it on Lemmy....
Calling lemmy.ml a bunch of tankies because they don't agree with a shaky far-right argument often used to attack the LGBTQ movement at large and don't want it on their instance is quite disingenuous. Lemmygrad is the tankie community, as it is literally the pro-Socialist instance on Lemmy.
It goes to show just how polarized online politics has become. You're either a Nazi according to the left if you don't fully agree with their views, or a Commie according to the right if you believe in anything like public healthcare or taxes.
Beehaw is more like a Tildes alternative than a Reddit alternative to me. Not gonna lie, Deimos would have probably yeeted this guy off of Tildes for a comment like that...
Reddit Sync Dev Gauging Interest on Developing Sync for Lemmy (old.reddit.com)
Quote from announcement post:...
Andrew Tate charged with rape and human trafficking (www.bbc.com)
Lemmy's total users continues to soar from 240k yesterday to 360k today! Basically quadrupling in the past 4 days (lemmy.world)
Source: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats&days=7
Incoming changes (Mostly Toplaners), courtesy of Spideraxe (twitter.com)
Image...
Michael Gove says sorry over Tory lockdown party video (www.bbc.co.uk)
Lemmy reached a user base of 150,000 (discuss.tchncs.de)
The Lemmy user base passed 150,000 in total users....
Reddit CEO learns going to war with the internet is a LOSING battle (youtu.be)
Reddit r/pics votes on reopening with sexy pictures of John Oliver only (old.reddit.com)
Foghorn Leghorn with toilet advice (lemmy.world)
Reddit CEO slams protesters, says he'll change site rules (www.nbcnews.com)
Stepz Ft Pete & Bas - Grandpa [Music Video] (www.youtube.com)
What did the 0 say to the 8?
"Nice belt!"
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With /r/starcraft being one of the hundreds of subreddits going private indefinitely, I thought that I'd take the wheel and create a community for it on Lemmy....
Why do teenage girls always walk in odd-numbered groups?
Because they literally can't even.
I, former owner of 100k+ r/letsplay sub, have quit reddit (archive.is)
Archive link in case reddit admins attempt any funny business.
Lemmy controversy?
Hi, there have been some controversy on lemmy and in particular lemmy.ml with regards to affiliation with Putin....