Of course. That explains why when day transitions to night you see the Sun zoom off into the distance until it diminishes to nothing, with the Moon zooming in from the opposite direction until it’s big enough to see.

It’s one of the meatballs, isn’t it?

You don’t get to be that rich by paying bills.

As a long-time cryptocurrency observer, it is going to be very amusing (in a bitter sort of way) seeing everyone discovering that they’re trying to solve the same problems that cryptocurrencies have been working on solving for over a decade now. And then finding all sorts of ways to contort themselves into solving them differently from how cryptocurrencies did it so that nobody can accuse them of being “crypto bros” or whatever, even though the technology is perfectly applicable as-is.

What might be neat is a user preference that allows one to enable or disable downvoting just for you. If you disable downvoting then you get a different view of the community and comments that only accounts for upvotes.

I am really not into porn that much :)

Heh. I feel we may have a common attitude here; I’m not particularly into smut but I think it’s very important for a free Internet to allow it to flourish for those that want it. The common “No NSFW” restriction on major Lemmy instances is likely to be one of the major hurdles to attracting Reddit refugees, alongside the particular political positions that devs and major instance-runners currently espouse.

I suspect both of those things will be diluted away quickly as this space evolves, though.

ChatGPT is really good at writing boring boilerplate. Just make sure to read the output thoroughly before you make it actual policy.

Moderation will be important for porn communities, so perhaps just start out with some kind of “meta” community where you can discuss stuff about the instance itself. May be better than throwing down a bunch of communities and ending up “stuck” having to deal with them.

Even better is to post the text of paywalled articles so people without access can still read them.

Like features just flew out the door for us at Reddit. :)

If the fediverse is going to make the big times it’s going to have e to handle porn.

That’s how I wound up here too.

Oh, nice. I was hoping I’d see something like this, it’s an open protocol so complete alternative implementations to accomplish Reddit-like functionality is great. Nobody can rest on their laurels or assume that they get to decide what features are allowed.

Indeed. Most of the subreddits I liked the most were ones with relatively small subscriber counts.

Interesting. I’m actually not reacting as negatively as most of the other folks here seem to be, I feel like it’s a “the more the merrier” situation. Much like how I’m not mad that Gmail is using the email protocol, for example, it’s good that it can interact with all other email programs and servers out there.

Even if Twitter and Reddit don’t completely crash like Digg did, making them “just one among several” will be a good thing in the long run. They’ll actually have competition for a change.

Crypto is decentralized, though. It’s an honest way of describing it. I think that more to blame are the specific crypto users who gave it a “bad name” with their shenanigans and equally the people who took that as an excuse to dump on crypto in general.

Didn’t they say that they were planning to no longer release new “versions” per se, but just keep on updating the existing operating system indefinitely? Perhaps they had the bad luck to start that strategy with one of the bad releases.

but says his issue is with how Lemmygrad is not communist.

Nope. I don’t care whether they’re communist or not, they’re apologists for authoritarians. The communism thing is just an excuse they dress that up in.

If the technology was to become widespread it would have to do better than “silly digital ski goggles” anyway. I wear glasses, I wouldn’t mind slightly bulkier glasses if in exchange I can get a heads-up display telling me what the name of that person who’s greeting me that I should totally know the name of but have forgotten right now.