Why … are you using lemmy… one-handed? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Oh! Problem solved, thanks!

That’s a lot more than “a bit,” and spacing above titles only really makes sense when there’s content above it. This just suffocates the space available for the scrollable content.

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This is normal. Titles should be plain text.

Am I really going to buy a 2TB drive to hold all of reddit…

Actually, I’m pretty surprised that it’s only 2TB.

Edit: and it looks like it’s only captured data up until about six months ago.

Edit 2: turns out I have an available 2TB drive. Now I’m tempted. Should I bother with a VPN for this or nah?

As if they wouldn’t enshitify it eventually

I am sorry to say this, but please be mindful of wearing Reddit gear in public. Some folks are really upset, and we don’t want you to be the object of their frustrations.

Uh yeah, if you have to tell your staff not to wear their otherwise innocuously branded clothing for fear of getting the shit kicked out of them … you might just be the problem here.

I honestly don’t know for sure. Maybe it’s cached on whatever instance your using, or maybe your instance is pulling the content directly from the target instance’s database (or more likely an API-like ActivityPub request to the target instance).

I was under the impression that lemmy/fediverse essentially functions like email. Your messages and content are stored on your server, but you can communicate with anyone on other servers.

That sounds more like a social problem than a technical one…

The legal system is so detached from reality when it comes to technology that it leads to this kind of horseshit where someone, before any court proceedings proving guilt are even started, is subject to extreme and unjust punishment.

Privacy on the internet is a lifeline at this point and they might as well be cutting off his water or electricity, which would be only slightly more egregious. But the people who create legislation and operate the judicial system are comprised largely of crusty old boomers who need a secretary just to send an email or open a fucking PDF. They are information troglodytes who are simply incompatible with the modern world.

It’s not just spending more time though. If they splinter out into the fediverse, that’s not too bad, but the major downside of independent forums was that you needed to register an account for every single niche and obscure site, many of which had restrictions and weird requirements for registration, posting, and participation, and generally had a far less reach than reddit.

Reddit is just one account for everything. Technically, the fediverse can be this, but then, a major downside is the volatility of instances. What happens when an operator decides they can’t manage it anymore? Or they’re situation changes and they can’t afford to? Or they pass away? Or any number of scenarios? Sure, you can just re-register in another instance, but whatever information had accumulated in that instance is now blackholed. It’s just gone.

Reddit won’t likely go out completely any time soon, and the wealth of existing knowledge will continue to be reachable, but it will become continually less useful for new queries. Now there’s an empty space.

If Lemmy wants to fill that space, it’s volatility needs to be addressed. I’ve mentioned this before, but I think the simplest way to address this would be to implement mirror instances, with the sole purpose of being a real-time redundancy for other instances in case they go down.

If you can’t find a dark theme in your instance, try the DarkReader extension for Chrome or Firefox.

The UX is kinda rough around the edges, but it’s filling my scroll addiction while reddit takes a steaming dump on everyone.

Am I the only one who can be bothered to get up off my ass to flip a fucking light switch?

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Slashdot

Damn, that takes me back.

“The API isn’t going anywhere, we’re just deliberately pricing it out of reach! See? It’s different!”

- spez, probably

The thing I can’t quite figure out is what they are able to do on their server connection. It seems like they are able to setup their own proxy and impact other traffic on the same network when they should be far more sandboxed, but I can’t prove that.

I noticed a while ago that my Asus WRT with a custom hosts file wasn’t blocking ads anymore, too. I’m betting your assessment is correct. Shit sucks. Fuck ads.

Damage is done, there’s no coming back for reddit.

I don’t know what reddit’s corporate structure is, but if it’s possible to shitcan spez and give up on the IPO, that’s the only way I can see it making a comeback at this point. Other than that, yeah, the reddit we knew and loved is dead.