Oh cool, thanks. I have friends in Texas and they make it sound like it could never happen.
Complete list of secondary accounts across Lemmy, claimed here to all be the same human:
henfredemars@lemdro.id
henfredemars@infosec.pub
henfredemars@hexbear.net
Oh cool, thanks. I have friends in Texas and they make it sound like it could never happen.
Snowballs chance unfortunately. I understand getting a Democrat to win in Texas is effectively impossible.
No one could have predicted this /s
Sounds like they lucked out into an awesome job with no real work required.
This is definitely a sink-or-swim moment for Lemmy. If this is going to work, this is the chance. Twitter and Reddit are imploding. Users have a reason to try something new and are willing to deal with young, buggy platforms because it’s better than the alternative and they needed an Internet home. My upvote taking ten seconds to register is itself the knife’s edge of creation, a new birth.
Just not using the app is better than using the app.
I have a love/hate relationship with desktop web apps on Linux. They are a great blessing in some ways because I get to run apps that just wouldn’t be available to me otherwise because Linux typically isn’t a priority for consumer-focused services. Often support exists as a convenient bonus because it came with the web app platform choice.
On the other hand, you get a web app, which looks nice (hopefully) but gobbles down your resources.
It’s been said to death but at heart, I’ve always felt that when it comes to piracy, it’s a service issue, not a cost issue.
Except for you Adobe. That’s a cost issue.
Another important factor to consider is that it doesn’t need to be perfect to be better. Having options to continue using a platform is better than not having viable options. The fact that Lemmy is open and has some built-in resistance to being owned by a single entity is a huge step forward–even if it’s not without the drawbacks of generalist instances.
Of the places I’ve been, there are a great many more networks I have not been part of arguably because they failed to achieve critical mass. Writing good software is hard. Getting people to use it is even harder in the case of social networks where the value isn’t just in the software but also in the community.
Many subreddits have fled to Discord which I think is a terrible format for their content. I suspect a great many users are still adrift. I hope more will find this island so it can achieve critical mass and really develop the communities that it needs to sustain itself in the long term. I usually lurk only, but I’m trying to be more active just to help promote its growth.
The software is merely the crucible. We are the iron. Reddit continues to make it hot by striking.
I see this upcoming election will be the final one. Nice work.