I thought Hulk Hogan was dead…

Ok…hear me out. We all join ICE, but then we BARELY do our jobs. And we agree to do whatever they say. Then we don’t do it. We clog up the system from the inside with insubordination. But we do it in a way that makes them think we’re trying to follow orders, and are just really really stupid.

“Ok Johnson, shoot the brown guy!”

shoots 15 feet above the brown guy into a brick wall behind him

“YEAH!!! I DID IT!!!”

“NO YOU DIDN’T!!! HE’S GETTING AWAY!!!”

“DON’T YELL AT ME MISTER MAN!!! DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM??? I’M ICE!!!”

“We’re all ICE…and he got away!”

“Is that good?”

“NO THAT’S NOT GOOD!!!”

“Did he win the race?”

“What race???”

“Uhhhhh…Formula 1?”

“What?”

“Vroom vroom!!!”

“What is wrong with you???”

“My father used to punish me severely.”

We just gotta act like idiots who mean well in their racist system, but keep screwing up.

But here’s the main thing…we DON’T kill people. Even if they fire us in 2 weeks, we will have clogged up their little system, drained their budget, and made the whole thing a mess.

I mixed up loops and threats (Meta)

Unclear if typo, or intentional insult. Either way, leave it that way.

They’re still a little wobbly but they’re good enough.

This is what drunk dads say about their 1 year old son who’s just learning to walk.

I only have one laptop so my hobbies have to coexist on it.

And yet I see no pornhub sticker…

auto closing/suspending stale communities stale could be defined as unanswered mod reports, no mod activity (no post, comment, login in x time period), no posts

No. I’ve seen several times people ask the admins if they could take over a community. And it happened. Thus reviving dead communities.

staggered new account permissions: wait 24h before commenting, wait 7 days before posting.

Why?

allow community users to flag posts or comments as NSFW.

This one I like.

Voting changes from up, down to up, down or NSFW.

That’s not how it should be done though. The same menu that you pull out that lets you report things to a mod, instead of reporting to mod, it should let you report as NSFW. If a mod approves the request, it then becomes labeled as NSFW.

I agree, Go Guards!

Orrrrr…pick a non-active community. Or both. And start posting in your local community. By that, I mean I live in Cleveland. There are 3 Cleveland communities. All dead. I’m the only one posting in one. I still get replies and upvotes. So people are there. They just all lurk until I post.

Do that. And post in a dead community. And post in an active community. We need activity basically everywhere besides tech/politics/news.

I agree with everything that you’ve said. I would also add:

Find your nearest non-political non-tech hobby community and start posting things people actually want to see

Because if we’re going to cast the same net reddit does, people with a more varied set of interests need to come here. Can’t be all linux, politics, and news. We’re going to need people who like baking. We’re going to need sports fans. We’re going to need music.

I could type new communities we need to be active all day. Humans are surprisingly a diverse set of creatures. You have one set of interests, I have another. Different set of interests. And both are totally valid.

The thing people here don’t seem to grasp is that OTHER interests and OTHER people using the fediverse isn’t a bad thing. If a bunch of boomers come here, and make their own communities to talk about Taylor Swift, and whatever else they talk about on facebook. That’s good that it would be here! Not bad!

They could talk about gardening, and model trains, and whatever else. It wouldn’t appeal to you, and thats ok.

I’ve told people about Lemmy before. I got the same reaction everytime.

“It looks like it’s just people talking about computers.”

And their interest dies. Which tells me there needs to be more diversity of active communities. No one wants to come to a small platform, create a new dead community, and talk to themself.

How is this meant for THIS sub? I already have this same story in my feed 3 other times. But those 3 other posts are in news related subs. SOME overlap in content is to be expected as some subs content overlap.

But THIS post, shouldn’t be one of them.

BTW this message is not in any way meant to be a pro-ICE defending comment. Fuck ICE. They are criminals. They are American S.S.

The point is there are places we SHOULD discuss this story. Put all your comments in those posts. Not here.

When reddit first started, it almost failed because there was no content.

So what they did was had staff members post, and reply to each other. They made sure to reply to any actual new people. And then they did this from hundreds of automated accounts.

They simulated activity to promote actual real activity.

I know everyone will disagree with me, but I’d say DON’T flag them as bots. If the bots fool humans, and cause growth of the fediverse/lemmy? Great. In time you can turn off the bots. But only once actual humans are here.

The difference is, reddit has Spez. Spez has the authority to sign contracts that allow google to send him checks in exchange for AI scraping.

Whereas google (or other corporations) would have no one to send that check to. Nobody owns the fediverse.

They could create their own instance. And you could block/defederate from them if you want.

Threads is owned by Meta. Meta is a mega corporation. Threads took steps this past summer to federate. And IMMEDIATELY anyone who didn’t want to see them defederated.

Today, I can’t say Meta has made any impact whatsoever on the fediverse. Which to me is a bad thing. It tells all profit driven companies that there is no profit to be made on the fediverse. So rather than invest in the fediverse’s future, they will instead invest in other platforms where they aren’t driven out.

Whereas if they invested in the fediverse, they would have no way to truely control the fediverse. But they can buy Spez. So now instead of growing, Lemmy is shrinking. And the alternative, reddit, IS fully controlled.

I don’t believe that’s even possible on the fediverse. But we can let them pour their resources into growing it until they figure it out.

…who has free electricity, and how do I get in on that?

What would you doooOOOOOooooo… for a Klondike bar with an old dell server?

Or ICE agent. Dealers choice.

Ooooooh, what community was it?

I never even heard of AWS before today. What is it?

And her wife? To shreds you say?

Boycotting Logitech is easy moving forward; Don’t buy their crap.

You’re like 5 years too late on that for me. I bought a mouse in 2019. And in 2020 the mouse died. Wouldn’t even turn on. Wouldn’t charge. Dead.

I call up logitech, and ask what my options are. Basically my options are “fuck you”. Couldn’t even send it in for repair at all.

Compare this to 2005. I had a mouse in those days I paid $200 for. Which in those days was quite a bit. My then girlfriend broke my mouse. So I called logitech to ask how much it cost to fix. I had the mouse about 2-3 years at that point. So I knew it wasn’t under warrenty, but I figure maybe repair is cheaper than buying a new one.

Guy on the phone says “Nah, I’ll just ship you one”. And I was confused. I asked “Oh. How much is that?” And he says “Don’t even worry about it. Lets just send you a replacement.”

Week later I had a free replacement on my doorstep. Instant recurring customer.

But now? Between deminishing product quality, disappearing customer service, and enshitified policies, I no longer feel like I’m a logictech customer for the past 5 years. This after being a huge cheerleader of theirs since the early 2000s. Maybe late 90s.

These companies do not seem to get that the easiest way to generate consistant revenue is with repeat business. I’m no longer a logitech customer, but I still have a lot of logitech products. Whenever they die, they’ll be replaced with something else.