Just take a common word and remove a vowel or two. That’s still hip, right?

And my axe!

That’s Lemmy in a nutshell. Guillotine and Luigi memes are constantly repeated because they know that no one’s actually going to act on that stuff, but any time anyone suggests a practical means to weaken the oligopoly people come out of the woodwork to shut it down.

It is all around us. Even now, in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window or when you turn on your television. You can feel it when you go to work; when you go to church; when you pay your taxes.

And yet it gets repeated (and upvoted) in every thread.

Mastodons have been extinct for millennia and don’t come up in conversation often. Lemmy and Peertube aren’t words at all. Loops is a pretty common word, though, so it needs something extra if you want people to know what you’re talking about.

“The UI is bad” is the stock attack on any open-source project. Doesn’t matter how good the UI actually is, or how bad the corporate version is, “bad UI” is such a nebulous criticism that you can apply it to anything.

Just Google it.

Is that a shoe that looks like a keyboard or a keyboard that looks like a shoe?

Hopefully Sublinks, PieFed or Mbin will be ready soon so that we can ditch Lemmy entirely.

Which means it’s just about due.

I’ve got my own SMTP server set up on a VPS and I can send to GMail addresses just fine. Am I part of the “cabal”?

Or a Valve and, err, okay maybe that doesn’t work so well.

Wake me when we’re at Web3.11 For Workgroups.

If you run, you gain one. If you move forward, you gain two.

Assimilate this! 🔫

In the end, Magic Quotes will save us all.

It was also painful to use Lemmy back then because any time there was a new post it would push all the old ones down the screen and you’d often literally have to chase the links that you wanted to click. That on top of how generally slow and unreliable the platform was back in June. The technical improvements to Lemmy over the last few weeks have been absolutely amazing.

We are all content on this blessed day!

Because Lemmy is on version 0.18.1. That 0 at the beginning is important. Better federation with Mastodon will probably come, but the devs have a lot on their plate right now just making Lemmy work with Lemmy content, so it’ll probably take some time.