Meh, I’m not so sure. We need to get used to the fact that reddit’s fuckery is unlikely to ever re-produce the massive influx of new users that the API nonsense did in 2023. That was a one-off thing that drove out all the OG users. The people left on reddit are the types that refer to it as an “app” and probably don’t even know old.reddit exists. Those kinds of people will grumble but they aren’t going anywhere. And frankly, that’s fine by me.

Edit: lmao okay, okay, Lemmy got 6 new users today. I get it. My point that we’re never going to see another user influx on the scale of the summer 2023 API changes has been proven wrong. Congrats everyone. Let’s hope half of them actually stick around.

Meh. Only suckers give a shit about the “generosity” of billionaires. Tax them. Tax them down to millionaire status. Why should they dictate what programs get funded? It’s never worked before… it’s not suddenly going to start now.

I mean, your own tumblr link is proof of that. After all, Gotham’s still a crime ridden shithole, isn’t it? Clearly Bruce Wayne doesn’t know what Gotham actually needs.

Seconded, but they just go by Tuta now.

I miss the good old days when reddit admins still pretended to be part of the community. Anybody remember the “when this post is [x hours old] reddit will go down for [xyz]” posts? Then the admins were in the thread cracking jokes with everyone about the fact that their servers were powered by hamster wheels and they couldn’t afford a programmer? Oh how the times have changed…

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On a friday evening/night in the US? lol. Not exactly peak hours. I wonder what stupid shit they pushed to prod.

As a side note, I sideload Apollo for a few niche communities on reddit that don’t exist here on Lemmy. But I was having intermittent issues a few hours before reddit actually went dark.

I miss when tech entrepreneurs just wanted to get rich and retire young instead of becoming real life James Bond villains. Tom Anderson got a generation to learn HTML, got Rupert Murdoch to hand over $580mil for a social network that’d be dead within a few years, then had the decency to peace out and travel the world enjoying his photography hobby. No evil schemes. No fascism. Just pretty pictures.

Yep, he’s been talking about it for awhile. This is not new information.

Why single out Musk?

Because the post is specifically about Starlink and most people are capable of understanding that limiting discussion to what’s relevant is not the same as “singling out” Musk.

At this point I think it’s good OPSEC to err on the side of caution and assume anything involving Musk is a security threat.

Well, I’m a big fan of the sciences so I spend a lot of time reading mander.xyz communities, subbed, I’ll contribute whenever I come across something relevant.

Ah, I wasn’t aware of that community, thank you!

I hope I haven’t triggered you with my ignorance. Don’t want ya popping a blood vessel

Lmao I love it when someone gets mad on the internet and immediately starts accusing everyone else of being mad. You’re projecting on more screens than a Marvel movie right now.

That’s about as clever a response as I’d expect from someone that doesn’t understand what the FBI does.

I mean, that nice and all but it’s just flat out nonsense. That’s not how the two alphabet agencies operate. It’s not a “vibes” based matter of opinion… Understanding how things actually work matters.

FBI = domestic

CIA = foreign

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