I am indeed talking about your support of a scammer homophobic company, not their slightly modified Chromium browser.

Well he’s dead, and IIRC didn’t donate to anti-women organizations. J.K. Rowling is a better comparison.

While also supporting scams and homophobia

I can’t believe people are still selling NFTs!

This is an interesting economics problem. How can a p2p FOSS alternative compete with advertising revenue? The YouTube creators don’t even get most of the money, so it wouldn’t need to be perfect to be better.

BlueSky

BlueSky - Because maybe we can go back to the way things were?

It’s worth pointing out that “lesser of two evils” reasoning is used by both parties. White privileged “libertarians” voted fascist because they felt unrepresented too.

Every single elected official who isn’t explicitly against FPTP was OK with this outcome. They know about the spoiler effect.

Shall we keep memes on Beehaw or .ml?

CrowdStrike, but that hit private companies too.

What are you actually arguing with the president thing? I literally don’t understand how that’s supposed to support your point.

That’s next quarter, after I’ve got my bonus for all these savings.

this seems to work better on techy people who don’t like thinking about politics but understand the technical details

Not weird at all; this was the case with cryptocurrency too. Otherwise qualified and intelligent people would invest in centralized scam coins because they had no understanding of economics, just tech.

It’s sad but cool that it works the same way with social capital.

Conservatives: “All these big websites keep gradually sucking for some unknowable reason. They must all just have the wrong people in charge.”

Touch Grass Day

The bullet points, right? I think that guy is botting. It’s a shame that instance-level bans aren’t more comprehensive.

If only we could move as easily as we can switch servers.

[Numbers drop in half immediately]

Please be aware that being an admin is unfortunately quite a thankless job - if you’re doing your job well, then most people won’t even realize you’re doing anything. OTOH, if you make mistakes, there will likely be many users calling you out in public. The main motivation for joining the admin team would need to be a desire to help build and maintain this instance as a great home for yourself and others.

— lemm.ee admins 4 months ago

Being an admin is a job and deserves pay. We don’t have an infinite supply of good people to deal with an infinite supply of AI-generated trolling. That means we need donations in the short term, and to consider paid memberships in the long term.

Ads won’t work at all because we’re all using open source clients and browsers with Ublock. And even if they did, we know where that leads.

Evil suggestion: lock minor features behind pay walls, like profile pictures or bolding their name in comments. There are more people who will pay to look cool than there are people who will inconspicuously donate.

I think there are differences in the interests of both. Can you explain your argument here, without super obscure references?