airportline

airportline, 1 day ago

God I can’t wait for that website to die already

airportline, 1 day ago

Finally, a competitive YouTube alternative

airportline, 9 days ago

Masterful gambit sir

airportline, 9 days ago (edited 5 days ago)

I’m heavily interested in Bluesky, so I started !bluesky. However, Lemmy is overall pretty hostile towards Bluesky, and I’m not willing to go back to Reddit for active discussion about it.

airportline, 1 month ago

Are there any potential repercussions for sticking a utility knife into the speaker grill?

airportline, 1 month ago

Car-dependent suburban sprawl

airportline, 1 month ago

Not right now, at least. There is actually a project by @snarfed to bridge Bluesky and the fediverse.

airportline, 1 month ago

My favorites:

• Jigsaw Falling into Place
• Reckoner
• Bodysnatchers
• 4 Minute Warning

airportline, 1 month ago

Apparently, that account is run by a TERF who deadnames trans men and refuses to include trans women’s art.

airportline, 2 months ago

It is not well known but there have been numerous scandals which put this trust into question. For example in 2012, a trustee of the Wikimedia Foundation UK used his position to place his PR client on Wikipedia’s front page 17 times within a month. Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales made extensive edits to the article about himself, removing mentions of co-founder Larry Sanger. In 2007, a prolific editor who claimed to be a graduate professor and was recruited by Wikipedia staff to the Arbitration Committee was revealed to be a 24-year-old college dropout. These are only a few examples, journalist Helen Buyniski has collected much more information about the the rot in Wikipedia.

I don’t really understand how decentralization would address the trust and legitimacy problems of Wikipedia. I do see value in adding community wikis to Lemmy, however.

airportline, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

I wouldn’t really compare Bluesky to Mastodon. Ultimately, the Bluesky team still has control over what’s allowed on the app and what’s allowed on the network until third parties launch their own AppViews and relays.

airportline, 2 months ago

Lemmy is probably the best fedidiverse project so far and it’s not even close

airportline, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

Tankies are the reason why Lemmy exists in the first place.

airportline, 2 months ago

One Piece?

airportline, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

Don’t go to OnePace Dot Net. It is an abridged version of One Piece with the same pacing as the manga, but its distribution is illegal due to copyright.

airportline, 2 months ago

I still can’t figure out how to use the Tumblr-style hashtags we were promised

airportline, 2 months ago

People will downvote anything for any reason. Maybe they don’t like seeing posts about Bluesky on !all when they use Scaled sort?

airportline, 2 months ago

The hyperbole isn’t what I care about.

Going up to people who are publicly considering withholding their vote over Biden’s handling of the situation in Gaza, calling them irrational, and demanding they do something they believe is against their morals is “asshole behavior.” It’s almost like you’re saying “the issue you care enough about that your willing to risk a second Trump term doesn’t matter to me.” This behavior is often referred to as “vote-scolding.”

I will probably still vote for Biden, but I understand why other won’t, and I don’t think he should be evaluated only in comparison to Trump.