He was very much the Elon Musk of his times, and it’s very possible he would have gone down the same route of extremist views and decisions that completely failed because of his egoism.

It’s always a balance between a few things.

1. It will always become shit at some point and no longer feasible. It’s impossible for it to be great for any amount of time.
2. At the moment it’s tiny and the quality and discussion can be pretty poor. It would benefit from growth in my opinion as atm it can be an echo chamber of “Linux good, Windows bad lol” which is a dumb take. Or in other places it’s just empty, you have no community in most areas.
3. Vs. Bringing in everyone all at once which would make it pretty crap instantly. Although I don’t think that’s what Threads has done.

There’s already shitty people on Lemmy and the like… We’re not some special elite, there’s dumbasses and people with ridiculous views here as well.

This is why integrating with threads is kind of important… Their user base is massive compared to Lemmy and increasing knowledge of the fediverse is important.

Otherwise you just end up with Lemmy and very little growth.

Some interesting points, and some things I disagree with.

Firstly it’s annoying he keeps calling it his idea and trying to enforce this concept that the current internet needs to align with his original goals. That’s stupid and ignores that things will go where they go, he can’t control them.

So his first point about centralisation being an issue isn’t that big a grievance. But his second point rings true - the issues around our data and advertising have grown significantly and the Web is getting much worse as a result.

I actually think the solution is just government needs to step in and regulate it, along the lines of what the EU is doing. Realistically I think that’s the only solution that’ll help. Doing some grassroots movement and hoping it picks up steam is just unrealistic. Like looking at Lemmy and Mastadon - they’re great but at this pace they’ll never take over the other giants in the space. You need someone to step in and force the change.

Sorry to hear.

Small consolation but you did use affects correctly. Something affects you, while something can cause an effect.

You can just search using more options to only have results from today, last week, last year Etc. On Google?

Are people not aware of that? Then you only get something recent. Works pretty well.

Yeah, people here are a little extremist/fucked up.

People can do shitty things, but it doesn’t immediately mean they deserve to die and we should celebrate.

OP doesn’t understand the difference between piracy and drm-free.

But hey, looks like the advertising is working on you to promote GOG so good on them for a successful tweet.

This is good, nice to finally have competition.

Tesla is extremely overrated (as can be seen by them repeatedly lowering prices now that any competiton exists).

And the BYD is a nice little car. I test drove one and was quite surprised how many features it had.

Hopefully others will follow suit. The EV market up till now has just been overly expensive cars unfortunately which hurts adoption.

Are you a boomer?

Just because you don’t like or understand something doesn’t mean it’s not a job. I think it’s a bit ridiculous myself but at end of day it’s no different to being a celebrity for whatever reason and it’s still a job.

Jesus lol.

This is probably true for big games, but I wouldn’t get angry at any small developer for not supporting Linux. It’s just not worth it/still such a small base.