/me laughs in Unihertz Tank 3.

https://www.unihertz.com/products/tank-3-pro

Added: non-google link to OP article:

https://wccftech.com/oneplus-working-on-snapdragon-8-elite-flagship-with-7800mah-battery/

Lem-bin pie?

The difficult part is not the software or even the hosting. It’s more about the network effects and the ability to let users monetize uploads, which in turn creates vast potential for abuse and fraud, which in turn has to be addressed by burning stupendous resources. At a certain point people stop wanting exposure or “making a difference” for their own sake, and instead want to get paid in genuine coin of the realm.

The main value of youtube for many of us is the enormous video collection, which is impractical for anyone else to duplicate. Need to fix an old washing machine (I did, recently)? Type in the make and model and there’s an instructional vid. It’s unfortunate that Google has exclusive control over such a resource, but here we are.

The forums I’ve enjoyed the most didn’t have voting and I’d rather that Lemmy just shut it off. VBB has a “thank” button you can click on posts, but they still show up in chronological order. That’s less gameable and less subject to outrage amplification and similar social media hazards. This isn’t Facebook and we don’t need to reproduce Facebook’s evil.

I used gitit for a while. It’s git backed and you can propagate it around that way.

There is no need for this.

My only experience with the fediverse so far is Lemmy and I can understand why some forum users might not want to change to it. Too much censorship, too many bots, less continuity of the user base, etc.

I’m not sure what this post is trying to convey. The fediverse is another thing designed to kill old school forums, I thought?

Crosspost bots have been discussed many times and they are generally not wanted. Let reddit do its own thing. The extension sounds preferable to a bot if it’s only for use by post authors.

I don’t think the software matters much tbh. It’s about payment aggregation, search hit aggregation, and for some “prestige” substack writers, actually getting paid by the platform.

The attraction of substack for at least some writers is that substack actually pays their more popular or prestigious writers. I don’t know how many or whether there is a published list of them, but at least a few of them are getting paid rather well (6 figures/year or maybe more). If Substack is recruiting and paying Nazis, then that is of interest and concern. Most writers there aren’t getting paid by substack, though they may have readers who buy subscriptions. That is open to pretty much everyone and the fanfiction saying “don’t like, don’t read” works for me here. Saying Ghost is a more attractive platform because it has more censorship is kind of a head scratcher. And calling Taibbi and Greenwald Nazis is ridiculous. Disliking the Democrats doesn’t make someone into a Nazi.

That said, I don’t personally like substack very much and am always glad to hear about alternatives.

https://old.lemmy.world/ looks just like reddit. It’s not the UI. It’s network effect and there’s not a lot to be done.

Right, like the other person says, Lemmy fundamentally doesn’t work like that. IDK what Piefed is. Ironically, in a sense, 4chan was ahead of us by decades.

If it’s what it sounds like, I understand it and would want it shut down too.

I don’t understand how it’s worse for the guy in the truck though. I’ve never used Snapchat so I’m likely missing something.

MMS?

They don’t have email? It’s like the 1980s when only nerds had email.

Yeah I just mean that if you want a bullhorn, even if you don’t order it from Amazon, you still donate training data to Amazon every time you use it. Obviously you might have to do that anyway, but there is a trade-off. You can’t completely escape.

There is some discussion of that idea here:

https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/20/capitalist-unrealism/#praxis