Harsh headline, but an interesting idea: Russia has redeployed its 76th Guards Air Assault Division to the Zaporizhzhia front to plug the Ukrainian breakthrough in Robotyne....
It’s fear of calcification. Lemmy is tiny, in terms of our user base.
If we don’t get fresh blood, and most importantly the rare active contributors, we’ll just get used to talking to each other, we’ll get bored or burned out and leave.
I have a RL friend who’s on Reddit all the time, and he didn’t even hear about the shutdown, much less /r/place, or anything like lemmy. I’ve been trying to sell it to him…
Re: The “We’re elite” becomes “We’re bored talking among the same old people” or “We’re burned out”, leading to users leaving and formerly thriving communities dying.
I’ve been around long enough to see this happen on multiple forums.
There was so much good stuff artistically in this movie!
The changes to the story worked really well, IMO, towards updating it for modern cynical sensibilities:
I loved Zendaya’s portrayal of Chani and her girl friend calling out Paul and Jessica’s colonialist bullshit.
Jessica’s “strange” behavior as a pregnant woman. I agree with others that having Jessica speak for Alia worked better than having a child actor like Lynch’s version.
Stilgar’s parody of religious fanaticism was hilarious!
Visually, making the worm riding look like some kind of extreme sport worked well
The Giedi Prime black and white/infrared sequences were brilliant, although seeing the Baron and Feyd in regular flesh tones afterwards felt strange.
The Atreides nuke missiles flying across the sky felt apocalyptic
The Sardukar ranks were notably not as rigidly disciplined as we saw in the first film.
Unlike others, I thought that Christopher Walken’s emperor was good. Age decrepit on the verge of doddering, but with dark intelligent thoughts behind his sullen face. The only problem with casting Walken was that he’s too recognizable.
The one part I didn’t like was the climactic dagger fight. I would have liked to see the action better choreographed and coordinated with camera angles to make the sequence of thrusts and parries clearer. I also would have liked to see contrasting fighting styles between whatever Feyd does, and Paul’s classical Atreides training mixed with Fremen savagery. I’m still not sure how Paul’s knife wound up in Feyd at the end.
I also noticed unlike other adaptations, they didn’t do the weirding modules, the Atreides-developed sonic weapons that give the Fremen some kind of combat advantage. But I didn’t miss them.
Was just browsing my favorite communities, commenting on posts I found really interesting, and engaging with other users who wanted to have conversations....
I think that enshittification on any SM platform, whether free and open, or built for commerce, happens when companies try to exploit it for commercial gain.
Take Usenet for example: At the beginning it was great, then spammers found they could post unlimited spam across the newsgroups for free, and it became shit, barring a few groups where mods had to work very hard to weed out the spam to keep them readable, but eventually collapsed, and people moved on to the new platforms.
Reddit, was built for ads and tracking its users to start with, so the gradual creep of enshittification was no surprise there.
And now we have nation-state backed disinformation campaigns to deal with in addition to commercial spam.
I could see Lemmy and the Fediverse in general taking a similar path to Usenet, if the devs, admins, and mods aren’t vigilant about keeping bad actors out.
I like the Fediverse’s guarantor feature for adding new instances, but we’ll have to see how well it holds up under assault from spammers.
There have been a number of comment spam attacks in various posts in a couple of /c’s that I follow by a user/individual who uses account names like Thulean*...
I’m not sure how extensive the spam wave was, nor how quickly the user was able to create an account, make the comments.
I doubt that the quantity in that I came across would be enough to take down a server, but that may be the point: To test lemmy’s collective defenses and response without drawing too much attention.
A common IP address or address range ban file that’s frequently updated and downloaded by each instance might be another way to boost security.
If this is actually an org attack, I’m guessing that we’ll see botnet DDOS comment and post attacks next.
After I’ve saved a post to a /c hosted by another instance than the one that I’m logged into, I can open that post for editing, but I’m unable to save my edits to that post....
Halliburton equipment worth $7.1m imported into Russia in past year, customs records show (www.theguardian.com)
John Oliver on the picket line (lemmy.ml)
That’s how you get positive publicity!!!
How Russia’s Salary Woes Helped Ukraine Strike the Black Sea Fleet HQ (www.kyivpost.com)
Recruiting Russian officers to help plan the attack was made easier by many of them not being paid their salaries
Website ripper?
I want to rip the contents of a pay website, but I have to log in to their web site on a web page to get access...
Russia says there's a problem with billions of rupees it has in India that need to be converted (markets.businessinsider.com)
Key quotes:...
Female Ukrainian judge jailed, shocked, threatened with firing squad (euromaidanpress.com)
Absolutely barbaric torture of civil servants who refused to cooperate with the occupiers.
Ukrainian troops 'break through Russian defences' to capture village of Staromaiorske (news.sky.com)
Staromaiorske is on the Velyka Novosilka axis of the Southern Front....
Russia Has Deployed Its Last Reserve Division To Southern Ukraine. Did A Ukrainian Screw-Up Make That Possible? (www.forbes.com)
Harsh headline, but an interesting idea: Russia has redeployed its 76th Guards Air Assault Division to the Zaporizhzhia front to plug the Ukrainian breakthrough in Robotyne....
Should Lemmy buy ads on Reddit? (fedidb.org)
User count has plateaued at about 420K...
Wagner leader Yevgeny Prigozhin suffering from abdominal cancer, says Russian media (english.nv.ua)
[Discussion thread][Spoilers] Dune: Part Two - Denis Villeneuve - 2024
www.rottentomatoes.com/m/dune_part_two...
I love Lemmy!
Was just browsing my favorite communities, commenting on posts I found really interesting, and engaging with other users who wanted to have conversations....
Does lemmy.film still exist?
When I search for communities about animation on the web interface, I see one called !animation...
Post with 1 deleted comment shows as "0 comments (-1 New)"
A new post with 1 deleted comment shows as “comment symbol 0 (-1 New)”...
Comment spam attacks in multiple /c's by Thuleanxxx
There have been a number of comment spam attacks in various posts in a couple of /c’s that I follow by a user/individual who uses account names like Thulean*...
Unable To Save Edits To My Posts in /c's Hosted On Other Instances
After I’ve saved a post to a /c hosted by another instance than the one that I’m logged into, I can open that post for editing, but I’m unable to save my edits to that post....
Google blocks some California news as fight over online journalism bill escalates (www.politico.com)