But why?

Simply put, there aren’t a lot of us, we don’t like them, and we aren’t particularly nice people, even to people we don’t dislike a priori.

It seems like a poor business decision.

Is it like that because we’re a bunch of snowflakes?

Oh man. That’s some sick shit. He had obviously been saving up this speech, waiting for an occasion to spring it on some unsuspecting poster.

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You keep posting that link without making a point. What is your point?

Funny, I said “monetisation”, you heard “ads”.

You don’t know what I heard. Please do not speculate.

Do you think that’s the only way to monetise something?

No, but I’ve been around the block often enough to know that “monetization” almost always means “take something away from people and then sell it back to them”.

Ads are best case. I can filter those out. The rest is worse.

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WHY DON’T WE MAKE THIS SHITTIER???

The power of SO was never the software. It was the relentless effort the team put into community building and making sure site was valuable both as an interactive experience and as an archive.

You can’t code yourself out of that effort.

i keep getting banned, for no reason at all

Ah yes, the asshole’s motto.

Go into any even slightly contentious post, click through to any thread that has gone over five messages or so, and you will find messages that should have been deleted and users that should have been banned.

Often, including yours truly.

Bluesky’s block propagation makes trolling and shit posting virtually a non issue. It’s that good.

Instead, Lemmy seems to get worse and worse moderation-wise every day.

You could login everywhere with public keys instead of passwords and usernames. I mean, you can’t yet but the idea was neat

You certainly can. Look up client side certificates.

Who would you trust with supplying identity services?

If you don’t trust Google, or Apple, or Microsoft, the biggest email providers in the world (ie where you send your activation links), why on god’s green earth would you trust some rando on the web?

What kind of Mickey Mouse data collection effort is this?

If you can’t be bothered to make a form, al least format your post so I can read the questions.

You’ll forgive me for not taking your word for it.

Against their political view that racial bigotry discrimination is bad? I sure hope so.

You are a sad fediverse user.

Apparently the one with blue sharks and trans folk.

It would fit right in with the Dune nutcases. Expanse and Star Trek take themselves too seriously for the People of the Shork.

For starters, because to give an answer to my straight forward question up top you send me to a rambling effort post.