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Burn, baby, burn
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Use a URL shortener like bitly.
Earnest question, what did the $30/year get you? I never gave them a penny out of my own pocket, didn't know why I would.
I'm liking the Fediverse, and enjoying Beehaw/Lemmy/etc. I'm still learning this new world, but I'm loving it so far!
RIF was my way to get to Reddit. I will miss it terribly. So long, and thanks for all the fish.
My melancholy is tempered by the Fedirverse, Lemmy, and particularly, here at Beehaw! ๐
This feels like a better and nicer home, anyway. I'm sad for the loss, and this smaller community won't have what the scale of Reddit's user base could bring...but the nicer and happier community here has its own virtues.
It reminds me of the best of Slashdot, among other small and very valuable online communities of yore. ๐
I don't see a battle here, personally. I think this is just a downhill slope to armagedon. We're watching Rome burn. We will likely see a continued increase of users flocking to Lemmy sites/nodes as more people become aware of what's going on and its impact. Reddit will get UGLY, possibly on an exponential slope,.
Pass the popcorn. This is going to be one hell of a show.
(don't get me wrong, it SUCKS. But we can't do anything about Reddit's foolish choices. We can only make the most of this opportunity for our new community here in the Fediverse. )
Same. RIF is / was my app. It's a shame in some ways, but this place is better in many other ways. I'm happy here and look forward to seeing the Fediverse grow!
Fuck reddit, VCs, and greedy assholes.
Slashdot, one of the first predecessors to reddit, had ratings good comments like, "insightful", "informative", "funny", "redundant", "off topic", and more.
I always thought it was much better than just I'll or down vote.
Wow. That was quite the read. Thank you very much for sharing that, it definitely clears up a few things that I had sort of intuited, but not really articulated in my own head.
What does it take to spin up an instance and federate? Can I just grab a docker image and go with some cloud Linux instance? What resources are we looking at for what headcount of users / level of engagement? (ie, posts and or connections per minute, etc)
I've heard good things about the Well, but never was a part of that community. Is love to see what it's like, maybe I'll check it out.
Good. Though I expect it won't change a dammed thing. The Amina know what they're doing, this is a purge of thoughtful culture do they can promulgate the drivel that facilitates ad revenue generating doom scrolling.
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whitehatbofh
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That's Eric S Raymond (ESR) not Richard Stallman (RMS). ESR was an early and influencial voice in Free and Open Source Software (FOSS), advocating for a distinction between Open Source and Free Software, acknowledging the GNU Public License (GPL) would not work for all parties, some flexibility was need.
RMS is a GPL purist and against any form of compromise. Both made a huge impact and helped make the world and internet better. But they both contributed in very different ways.