It’s not that they might do something better.
It’s that they have a history of encouraging the competition to adopt an open standard (to gain the active users), and then purposely scuttling the standard in order to sink the competition (and leave the users with no functioning alternative).
this was an excellent article. I’m old enough to remember being impacted by these events.
I’m not in Munich, but I remember trying to embrace OpenOffice, and telling my wife how pissed off I was that Microsoft wasn’t following it’s own open source document standard.
I remember Google killing XMPP, and there’s also the more recent examples of what Facebook has done to WhatApp, Instagram, and the other potential competitors that got buried.
well shoot. this sums it up so well, there’s nothing to add.
The definition of “reasonable ads” and “just a few ads” keeps sliding. I’m old enough to remember the early internet, and that this lie has been told many times.
Just a few acceptable ads always becomes many unacceptable ads, because money.
this doesn’t work effectively, too many lemmynsfw posts aren’t tagging as nsfw, and wind up in the all feed.
oof, this comic hurts so bad it’s funny.
your first hurdle is installing a lemmy server locally. this is a mission on it’s own, and I can be of zero assistance here.
your second hurdle is enabling port forwarding and making that server accessible from the internet. I’m going to assume you know how to do the 2nd. port foward dot com if you don’t.
your third hurdle will be setting up dynamic dns. again, lots of choices here, and different tiers of service/support. I’m assuming this is enough to point you in the right direction, and your home router likely has built in support for a few providers.
I recommend tackling these hurdles in order, but they don’t have to be done in order.
beehaw disabled downvotes, but other instances haven’t. the sidebar said disabled downvotes encourages more active discussion, and prevents unpopular opinions from being silenced by a flood of downvotes. they want people to engage by saying “i disagree with you, here’s why” instead of passively downvoting and moving on.
you should be able to see you the upvotes on your comments though.
federated isn’t actually the same thing as decentralized. lemmy isn’t intended to simply be a decentralized network of identical nodes that can automatically be synced and load balanced.
it is expected that each instance will be have it’s own flavor, and have the autonomy to decide which other instances to mesh with.
think more like a network of grassroot communities, and less like a MacDonald’s franchise.
some incorrect answers get upvotes ironically, often when the correct answer seems obvious. but I guess it depends on the type of question, and the sub
Even in corporations that are committed to a good culture of kindness, you can still find opponents who won’t hesitate throw you under the bus in order to further an agenda.
Using active tone in corporate is risky, because office politics can accuse it of being aggressive/hostile in order to block a policy. They don’t necessarily care that the messenger winds up getting written up by HR and sent to sensitivity training.
I find myself being very careful about then tone of my emails after getting caught in the crossfire between two warring factions. Passive tone is less likely to come back to haunt you.
I really hate having to navigate office politics, but it is what it is.
“There will be a cake reception for all test subjects upon successfully launching the app. We promise you will like it”
lamenters
this is the most redditish comment I’ve seen so far.
remains to be seen if that’s a good thing or not, but I did chuckle over the familiar joke
hol’ up, comparing their reading comprehension to that of a carrot is an unfair insult to the average carrot.
and how exactly is the comparison? is it one carrot per person, or can a single carrot out-comprehend the whole lot?
how much bad behavior do you want to see before accepting that MetaZuck is evil and has no go intentions?
There’s a literal trail of dead startups and bodies.