This is an interesting economics problem. How can a p2p FOSS alternative compete with advertising revenue? The YouTube creators don’t even get most of the money, so it wouldn’t need to be perfect to be better.

BlueSky

BlueSky - Because maybe we can go back to the way things were?

It’s worth pointing out that “lesser of two evils” reasoning is used by both parties. White privileged “libertarians” voted fascist because they felt unrepresented too.

Every single elected official who isn’t explicitly against FPTP was OK with this outcome. They know about the spoiler effect.

Technically they’re not a single 360° hinge. They’re actually two 180° hinges that are very close to each other with a short link. I’ve got one right here.

Just so nobody assumes the worst, why don’t you explain your reasoning here?

What’s the best mobile client for Piefed?

Shall we keep memes on Beehaw or .ml?

this seems to work better on techy people who don’t like thinking about politics but understand the technical details

Not weird at all; this was the case with cryptocurrency too. Otherwise qualified and intelligent people would invest in centralized scam coins because they had no understanding of economics, just tech.

It’s sad but cool that it works the same way with social capital.

Conservatives: “All these big websites keep gradually sucking for some unknowable reason. They must all just have the wrong people in charge.”

Touch Grass Day

The bullet points, right? I think that guy is botting. It’s a shame that instance-level bans aren’t more comprehensive.

If only we could move as easily as we can switch servers.

[Numbers drop in half immediately]

Ah so like Latin

No they’re not - when I sleep during the car trip, everyone freaks out!

Imagine being that millionth Russian, only to see confetti and corks popping in your final moment.

Please be aware that being an admin is unfortunately quite a thankless job - if you’re doing your job well, then most people won’t even realize you’re doing anything. OTOH, if you make mistakes, there will likely be many users calling you out in public. The main motivation for joining the admin team would need to be a desire to help build and maintain this instance as a great home for yourself and others.

— lemm.ee admins 4 months ago

Being an admin is a job and deserves pay. We don’t have an infinite supply of good people to deal with an infinite supply of AI-generated trolling. That means we need donations in the short term, and to consider paid memberships in the long term.

Ads won’t work at all because we’re all using open source clients and browsers with Ublock. And even if they did, we know where that leads.

Evil suggestion: lock minor features behind pay walls, like profile pictures or bolding their name in comments. There are more people who will pay to look cool than there are people who will inconspicuously donate.

I think there are differences in the interests of both. Can you explain your argument here, without super obscure references?

I disagree. Email is still perfectly usable and helpful because we simply filter out the commercial stuff. The fact that most internet discussion happens in extremely censored places is bad. Luigi Luigi Luigi. I want the rest of the world to change and this is another tool to help towards that end, not merely an escape.