I grew up in the age of Internet forums, in the ancient days of the late '90s-early-00’s before the (Eternal September) Smartphone dumped every human being onto the landscape.

Having small communities is so much better. I often hear people complain that Lemmy isn’t big because there are not communities with 3 million people like there are some subreddits. Much of the reason that Reddit is shit is because of how big it is.

On the old Internet, you could know the people who were part of the community. I have old friends, that I’ve known for 20+ years, that I met playing MUDs on BBSs. Now, I couldn’t tell you the name of a single person that I’ve ever interacted with on social media in the past year.

Digg and Reddit came on the scene and pulled a huge crowd because we didn’t have The Algorithm to recommend content and these link aggregation sites were the first time people got a taste of that kind of ‘See all of the newest things from every corner of the Internet in a single place, curated by a process that produces good quality results’ that we now just expect from recommendation algorithms.

The old communities were essentially starved of population. Nobody wants to take the social effort required to become part of a community when they can just scroll Reddit mindlessly.

There’s very few people that even had a chance to experience the magic of spontaneous communities full of people working together.

If you still want a taste, check out the Something Awful forums.

The barrier to entry is higher: you have to learn the rules (read the rules), the social norms and there is a $10 one-time fee (so getting banned has some sting to it, read the rules).

In exchange you get an actual community of people. Many of the people posting there (or, in the various Discords now because that’s a thing) have been on SA since they were edgy teenagers and are now professionals with careers. That isn’t to say that there are not trolls and assholes, those exist in any community, but there’s a much higher ratio of good to bad posters.

One of the interesting decisions that they do is that rulebreaking posts are rarely ever deleted. If a person is probated (temp ban) or banned, their comment stays up with a “(User was Probated/Banned for this post)” edited into the post so you can see, and hopefully learn, from the bad behavior. In addition, there’s a ‘Wall of Shame’ section where you can see everyone who’s been actioned against, who the moderator was and the moderation reason.

I’ve always hated the fact that comments on Reddit just disappear. You can never see what a mod removed and there is no reason why it is removed. This allows all kinds of bad and manipulative behaviors to be done by people with moderation access.

If he only had a hawk-sized watch, we wouldn’t have this problem

You’re confused. I said “this thread” and not “The OP”.

If you read the comments, do you see a frank discussion of people attempting to locate a gender neutral term for a tech enthusiast or a bunch of people just riffing insulting terms?

Regardless, to address you specifically. You’re trying to “win” an argument using rhetoric in place of reason. You’re not winning the argument, you’re just throwing a punch and declaring victory.

You win arguments by having better arguments, not by coming up with the best clever clapback so that you get more upvotes

This thread is basically “Please help me brainstorm pejoratives”, a very toxic mindset to have.

We were all, at some point, just some really spicy clay.

☝️🤓I mean, it isn’t “most likely”.

Unless there are multiple independent sources of life then, by definition, the last universal common ancestor is the thing that we all originated from

(This is a bad decision, we should support Ukraine, fuck Trump. Genuflection complete)

For people who didn’t read the article:

The clickbait headline is framing it as if there was a recent decision to specifically target Ukrainians. That is not the case.

This is from a January 20th executive order to the DHS directing that they end temporary humanitarian parole programs.

What the article points out is that this would impact Ukrainians too.

It’s like writing a headline that Trump has decided to raise the cost of goods and services for Ukrainian refugees but the article talks about tariffs that will raise prices for everyone. It’s not wrong, but it’s still a misleading headline.

e: my apologies for my prior use of a non-animated gif, Eternity let us all down, smh my head

You can’t expect Reddit moderators to have the bravery of a hawk

It’s promoting the idea that the opinions of politicians from the 1700s carry any more weight than the opinions of doctors from the 1700s.

Adherence to “what the founding fathers wanted” is a toxic meme. They were historical figures, that’s all.

The Supreme Court uses this meme as a totem to excuse motivated reasoning in their decisions and people are simply conditioned to accept the words of 300 year old politicians over the reality of the present.

We can understand the danger of Trump without quoting from old slave owners, pretending that they carry special wisdom.

You, and everyone up voting you, need to examine yourself to see why you’re preemptively surrendering to Trump and masking it as cynicism.

You’re joining the crowd of capitulation and cowardice, chanting “Resistance is futile”.

This is a Team Trump move.

You’re creating the impression that he’s invulnerable and unstoppable and in doing so making it easier for others to give up.

If you’re burned out, then take a break. The fight isn’t going anywhere. Don’t promote this “Trump can’t be stopped” mindset. It’s damaging the efforts made by the people who are actively resisting him.

for no gain.

Nearly $3 billion USD flowed through the TRUMP cryptocoin rugpull, whoever owned initial coins made very, very large gains.

The $3 billion in quid buys a lot of anti-Ukraine pro quo

But, thanks to the Supreme Court, Trump could go on national TV and say he change US policy on Ukraine because he was bribed and he’d still be immune to any legal consequences (other than impeachment, but never anything criminal).

We don’t blame the whip, we blame the slaver

After the 2nd Zion, when The One is returned to the source

Oh it should still be quite effective against the coming protestors terrorist rioting antifa thugs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics

In the Americas, United States, and Canada:

-Russia should use its special services within the borders of the United States and Canada to fuel instability and separatism against neoliberal globalist Western hegemony, such as, for instance, provoke “Afro-American racists” to create severe backlash against the rotten political state of affairs in the current present-day system of the United States and Canada. Russia should “introduce geopolitical disorder into internal American activity, encouraging all kinds of separatism and ethnic, social, and racial conflicts, actively supporting all dissident movements – extremist, racist, and sectarian groups, thus destabilizing internal political processes in the U.S. It would also make sense simultaneously to support isolationist tendencies in American politics”.

Yes, for the moment.

“Apple can no longer offer Advanced Data Protection (ADP) in the United Kingdom to new users and current UK users will eventually need to disable this security feature,”

It’ll eventually be completely removed, but they seem to have some time to be in compliance and so they’ll give their customers time to move before it’s all deleted.

“Crap! Bob there’s a unit in Rack BC29849 that has gone out can you go and swap it for a new one?”

Bob:

If Twitch really cared about the issue, they’d kill the ban

No.

They disabled the ability for new users to use ADP.

If you use ADP, only you have the encryption keys. The UK wants Apple to keep a copy of the decryption keys.

There is nothing that can be done to data that is already protected by ADP. At worst Apple can delete it, or turn over encrypted data but there is nothing that is likely to exist in the next 100 years that can break the encryption (even hypothetical quantum computers).

As an interesting side note, if you use Windows and use Bitlocker to encrypt your hard drives while logged into a Microsoft account then Microsoft backs up your recovery key “for your convenience”. They’ve produced these recovery keys for subpoenas.

That is what the UK wants Apple to do.