I would imagine it comes from the fact that you can generate electricity with potatoes
Wow this is totally not my thing, but that was a great read. Thanks for writing this up and posting!
I try to be generally positive when commenting, but I'm usually not a poster... Not sure how questioning the direction of the masses is creating drama, but I guess they have spoken on the matter...
I'm generally looking at all, so maybe that's my problem. I am finding it hard to find smaller communities that might interest me, but maybe it's the app I'm using (Jerboa).
Any recommendations? Either specific communities or tips for finding some?
Is anyone else disappointed that Lemmy is becoming the new Reddit?
I joined Lemmy a few weeks before the API change. I loved the conversations. I loved how the content was slower but more engaging, and less politically charged. There was nobody shitting on Elon Musk, or Twitter, or Reddit.
People were having meaningful, engaging conversations about random stupid memes. It felt like the early days of the internet... It felt like a small community of outcasts that all got together and posted shitty memes for the sake of giving someone else a feed of shitty memes to scroll through while they were taking a shit... Or not taking a shit, apparently...
But now that the Reddit API change happened... It's like the super toxic part of Reddit was skimmed off the top and sent our way.
Every popular post is negatively charged. Every comment has an underpinning of hate. Everything is spun with some time of agenda that feeds half truths to make it look like whole lies.
What happened here? I thought this place was supposed to be better then Reddit? To not have some corporate overlord algorithm controlling us as part of some toxic hivemind?
Does anybody know of a Lemmy instance that has been spared from this proto-molecule outbreak?
Anyone more familiar with how this works? Like, that wording is weird to me. How much revenue they can raise per student.
So is this like, local school taxes? Or like local fund raising? That wording doesn't sound like it's as big a win as the article title makes it sound like?
What are they supposed to do in the year 2425? Raise $140,000 per student?
It's far far worse than just that. Contacts are abstractions of the core mission of the team. If you're in a contract to push boxes, you reduce your world to boxes. You don't care about accounting, but if account needs something boxed faster they can't just go to the box people because they are in a different contract. So now you have to navigate the bureaucracy... Now it's emails here, and phone calls there. Adding huge time delays to getting something that would would be much simpler if they were on a unified team with a unified mission.
"I'd like to strike just to teach them a lesson," says long-time UPS worker Antonio Rosario.
Cost of online purchasing is going to rise if this happens, are you all looking locally more often? When in the face of reduction to complex society, I feel like it's a good habit to get in to. I still buy things I just can't get locally online, but I feel like that instant gratification machine is going to end soon... Or at least be too expensive to be worth it anymore.
Wow this is amazing, immediately subscribed to this community. The RetroNet motif really calls to me.
Just found RetroNet.net, it's a shame it looks unmaintained. Sounds like a really cool idea.
My first thought was my NSFW reddit account... If they didn't already kill it with 3rd party apps, I'd be bummed...
Question about this, is it just a speedier general browsing on other instances as well? Or just your local posts?