Don't forget the old textile companies that were threatened by hemp as well
I don't think we can build anything better than the state of the art simulator that President Elon already favours.
That was a much more philosophical analysis than I expected, but then it is the New Yorker.
There is something to be said about the fact that by the Golden Rule, we should only categorically avoid having children if we would rather have never been born (and while that's a popular meme, I doubt people who remain alive actually believe that).
I think a surefire way to help with this would be to have a rule that any instance that becomes the largest one on Lemmy should lock itself instantly. That way, we'll only surpass the current max number of users on a single instance until it's completely spread out
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/58706770
Hyposuction - Pass The Lighter
Image sourced from here and edited in GIMP.
Looks like that community needs reviving
The standard issue one is Morpheus, and the orange is his younger sister (from a different litter) Avocado Toast. Together they are the international pop duo Morphy and Toasty (don't have anything sillier than that, though I will try to use any that get suggested).
Image sourced from here and edited in GIMP
I'm enjoying this ORTBO already
Drawn in GIMP
I foresee a follow up album called PAY YOU FUCK ME
Check out the always fun !sillydrawingrequests@sopuli.xyz
All three posts are still up though, and the usernames of the posters are visible as well.
I know it's bad, but I don't think they'd openly admit that it was because of Luigi, even if it did happen. They're too smart for that, given how vaguely they've been phrasing their new rules and enforcement policies.
I was right there as well. I saw creators I trust putting out stuff talking about the state of social media today (Technology Connections on YouTube in particular) and that was around when I started diving back into bluesky, then after a little more reading around, mastodon and lemmy. Never looked back after that.
I can't shake the feeling of it being a tie, but I like the aesthetic overall.
I think decades of minimalist, 'intuitive' interfaces that abstract what's going on in the background have made us too lazy to go beyond the bare minimum to switch platforms in general.
A common criticism I saw of the fediverse was the fact that you have to decide on an instance. As if any significant part of your life doesn't require a certain amount of research before making a decision. We all just buy the car that the dealership tells us to buy, of course.
More to boop!