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- Comment on Anon plays a guessing game 3 weeks ago:
smh could have guessed she was born with a tail, missed opportunity
- Comment on Rainbow Dash jar cosplay 💦🌈🦄 1 month ago:
Save yourself. It’s not too late to preserve your ignorance.
- Comment on What happened with active users on Lemmy? 2 months ago:
I missed when reddit had more porn so here I am
- Comment on Anon tries to remember a song 2 months ago:
Darude - Sandstorm
- Comment on Anon watches Family Guy 2 months ago:
Bryant Bryan dog its the details that make the greentext
- Comment on How is Lemmy better than Reddit? 3 months ago:
Dude I don’t care whose name is on the building, it’s the same effective ownership
- Comment on How is Lemmy better than Reddit? 3 months ago:
Advance Publications en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance_Publications
Advance Publications, Inc. is a privately held American media company owned by the families of Donald Newhouse and Samuel Irving Newhouse Jr., the sons of company founder Samuel Irving Newhouse Sr. It owns publishing-relating companies including American City Business Journals, MLive Media Group, and Condé Nast, and is a major shareholder in Charter Communications (13% ownership), Reddit (42 million shares), and Warner Bros. Discovery (8% ownership.)
Potato, potato
- Comment on How is Lemmy better than Reddit? 3 months ago:
Reddit is owned and controlled by a corporation (Condé Nast.) They disabled 3rd party Reddit apps to force people onto the official Reddit app which also broke many third party moderation tools. This disproportionately impacted power users, frequent posters, and mods-- in other words, the people who made Reddit the important community it was.
They showed an unwillingness to listen to their community or work with the unpaid volunteer moderators, instead banning the moderators who took part in the Reddit Blackout and replacing them with mods willing to cooperate with the enshittification of the site.
They’ve been mangling the web interface to be uglier and less usable (old.reddit.com is still up, but the mobile version of old.reddit.com is gone). They’ve been experimenting with ways to show more ads and subtler ads.
Lemmy is open source and federated so it can’t get bought up by a company and cored out for shareholder value. You can use different instances, or a variety of apps. You can use (or create your own) third party tools for accessibility and moderation.
Lemmy is currently a smaller universe than Reddit was, but it has a high ratio of good posters and moderators who care personally about their own communities, so hopefully it continues to grow.
- Comment on How much salt water to kill a tree? 3 months ago:
This is breathtakingly dumb
- Comment on When Irony and Science Collide: Expect the Unexpected 3 months ago:
I didn’t leave reddit cause of power tripping mods, I left reddit cause of profit hungry admins
- Comment on What is a stupid question? 3 months ago:
I’ll take this question in the spirit of the community you posted to. “No stupid questions” refers to the saying “there is no such thing as a stupid question,” which is am aphorism meant to destigmatize expressing ignorance. This is supposed to be a place to ask the questions you might be afraid to ask because you assume everybody else already knows.
The other posters are responding a bit comedically at the notion that this community is fundamentally opposed to asking “stupid questions” when it’s traditionally been a space for “I’ve been afraid to ask, but are you supposed to use shampoo or conditioner first?” type questions.
- Comment on Do you know Q&A websites? If so, can you tell me? 4 months ago:
Can you be a little more specific? Typing questions into Google or ChatGPT can get you answers on a broad variety of topics. Quora is a well-known “question and answer” type of site. Stack Exchange is a help site network largely specialized for different kinds of computer code, programming, and a few other topics. Is there something specific or a particular kind of community you’re looking for?
- Comment on James 8 months ago:
It’s turtles all the way down
- Comment on What does "araffe" mean? 8 months ago:
Echoing what others have said that it so far appears to be hallucinated/AI-coined from everything I’ve seen so far, as well as that I’ve seen a variant spelled “Arafed.”
- Comment on Wow look, nothing 1 year ago:
Digital style!